BREAKING: President Trump confirms that conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has died at the age of 31 after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University.
Scott Jennings: “I sat in this room… the night they they shot the President, and now they shot Charlie. I’m not sure it’s safe to be an outspoken conservative walking out in America right now.”
Real America’s Voice, the network on which The Charlie Kirk Show airs, is reporting that the conservative influencer has died after being shot in the neck. There has been no official confirmation from authorities yet.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Charlie Kirk: “We ask everyone to pray for him and his family…this is detestable what’s happened. Political violence has become all too common in American society. This is not who we are. It violates the core principles of our country.”
Utah Valley University now says that there is no suspect in custody following the shooting of Charlie Kirk, despite earlier reports and footage appearing to show a detained suspect.
BREAKING: The man taken into custody by police after the shooting of Charlie Kirk is NOT the shooter, the New York Times reports, citing a university spokesman.
JUST IN: Charlie Kirk is in critical condition and being treated at a nearby hospital. There are conflicting reports over whether his condition is stabilizing.
Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz on Charlie Kirk: He is one-of-a-kind. I really thought that years from now we would be saying ‘President Charlie Kirk’ because for a generation he – nobody speaks to them like he does…He is a political force who transforms.”
MSNBC now blaming Charlie Kirk for getting himself shot: “You can’t stop with these awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place”
Trump appeals order blocking him from firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook • President Donald Trump appealed a federal judge’s order blocking him from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while a lawsuit challenging his removal of her continues. • The appeal came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb, in her decision, said, “The public interest in Federal Reserve independence weighs in favor of Cook’s reinstatement.” • The president claimed he was doing so because of allegations by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte that she committed mortgage fraud.
Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should be avoided, including lasers, herbal remedies and electromagnets “It really is a buyer-beware situation,” said Dr. Robert Smith, a Lyme specialist at MaineHealth Institute for Research. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to diagnosing Lyme. Doctors use a combination of visual clues, information reported by their patients and the standard medical test, which has a number of limitations. When patients show the classic symptoms — including a bull’s eye rash, fever and fatigue — a short course of antibiotics usually resolves them. But a subset of patients will go on to experience months or even years of arthritis, pain and fatigue — poorly understood symptoms that overlap with a number of other medical conditions. That has left an opening for so-called “nonstandard” Lyme tests and treatments. Interest in those products has been amplified by influencers and a growing list of celebrities attributing various health problems to the disease. That might lead patients to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on bogus tests, which aren’t covered by insurance, followed by unapproved treatments that may do more harm than good. And it’s possible some of them may not have had Lyme at all. In a recent consensus report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Smith and other experts called for more funding and research into the chronic symptoms experienced by some Lyme patients. “The key thing is that these people are suffering and we need to come up with strategies to alleviate that suffering, whatever the trigger was,” Smith said. At the same time, Smith and his colleagues warn that “profiteering entities” are pushing Lyme products that are “costly, may not work and may cause harm.” Here’s a look at the established approach for testing and treating Lyme and how to spot unproven alternatives. The standard Lyme test comes with limits First identified 50 years ago, Lyme disease takes its name from the Connecticut town where the earliest cases were diagnosed. The challenge of diagnosing it begins with the standard laboratory test, which comes with a number of caveats that must be carefully weighed. The bacteria that causes Lyme, carried by certain ticks in the Northeast and Midwest, doesn’t circulate throughout the body. Often it stays in the skin near the tick bite, making it hard to detect. Instead, Lyme tests look for antibodies, proteins that help fight off foreign invaders, which usually only appear in the blood several weeks after an infection. That’s the best approach available, but experts acknowledge its shortcomings: If the test is given too early it will come back negative because antibodies haven’t yet appeared. “That’s one of the problems,” Smith says. “We can’t say for sure in the first couple of weeks that it’s Lyme disease or not based on these tests.” Also, these antibodies continue to circulate in the blood long after the infection. That means the test can return a positive result years or even decades later — making it difficult to distinguish between a new case and an old one. Medical guidelines deal with this ambiguity by recommending doctors diagnose and start antibiotics in all patients who have […]
Two senior Hamas officials were wounded in Israel’s unprecedented airstrike on the group’s political headquarters in Qatar, according to a report published Thursday by the Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat. The newspaper, citing regional sources, said both men were members of Hamas’s political bureau — the organization’s top decision-making body — and are now hospitalized in a private Qatari hospital under tight security. One of the officials was described as being in serious condition. The revelations, if confirmed, would mark the most direct hit yet to Hamas’s leadership since Israel expanded its war against the group beyond Gaza’s borders. The report detailed how Israel’s strike pummeled a section of the Hamas headquarters in Doha, with four bombs concentrated on the office of Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s leader in Gaza and its chief negotiator in ongoing ceasefire talks. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, Hamas officials had gathered in the former office of Ismail Haniyeh, the longtime Hamas political chief assassinated by Israel in Tehran in 2024. One of the bombs landed inside Haniyeh’s office itself. Officials seated in a corner of the room survived but suffered injuries from the blast. The account suggests that a combination of Israeli precision and Hamas countermeasures may explain why the strike did not decapitate the group’s leadership entirely. The paper reported that Israel relied on phone geolocation to target the meeting. But Hamas officials, aware of the risk, have adopted the practice of leaving their phones outside during high-level gatherings — either with advisers or in their offices — making real-time tracking unreliable. Israel has not confirmed the identities of those wounded, but Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said Wednesday’s strike dealt “a painful blow” to Hamas’s senior ranks. “We promised to pursue Hamas leadership wherever it hides — in Gaza, Tehran, Beirut or Doha. That is exactly what we are doing,” Katz said. Still, the survival of key figures highlights the challenge Israel faces in eliminating Hamas’s top tier. The group has proven resilient in dispersing its leadership and adapting to Israeli surveillance tactics. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Troops from the United States, Egypt, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Greece, India, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Yemen took part in a Military Free Fall event over the Great Pyramids of Giza during BRIGHT STAR 25 in Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued one of his most uncompromising warnings yet on Wednesday, declaring that any nation sheltering Hamas leaders — Qatar included — risks direct Israeli retaliation if it fails to act. Speaking on the eve of the September 11th anniversary, Netanyahu invoked America’s war on terror as a model for Israel’s campaign against Hamas, framing the group’s October 7, 2023, assault as Israel’s own 9/11 moment. “Tomorrow is September 11th. We remember September 11th,” Netanyahu said in a televised address. “On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery on American soil since the founding of the United States. We also have a September 11th. We remember October 7th. On that day, Islamist terrorists committed the worst savagery against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” Netanyahu compared Israel’s strike this week on a Hamas compound in Doha to America’s post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaida and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. “Yesterday, we acted along those lines,” he said. “We went after the terrorist masterminds who committed the October 7th massacre. And we did so in Qatar which gives safe haven, it harbors terrorists, it finances Hamas.” Netanyahu left little ambiguity about his message to Qatar and other nations hosting Hamas officials. “I say to Qatar and all nations who harbor terrorists, you either expel them or you bring them to justice. Because if you don’t, we will,” Netanyahu warned. The remarks come a day after Israel’s airstrike on a villa in Doha’s Katara district, a rare extension of the Gaza war into the territory of a close U.S. ally. Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political bureau since 2012 with Washington’s tacit blessing, positioning itself as a mediator in past ceasefire talks and hostage negotiations. Qatar’s government has condemned the Israeli strike as a violation of its sovereignty and international law. But Netanyahu dismissed the backlash, blasting world leaders who criticized Israel’s action. “Now, the various countries of the world condemn Israel. They should be ashamed of themselves,” he said. “What did they do after America took out Osama bin Laden? Did they say, ‘Oh, what a terrible thing was done to Afghanistan or to Pakistan?’ No, they applauded. They should applaud Israel for standing up to the same principles.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
