Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she rescheduled a planned rally in North Carolina in the wake of the the Charlie Kirk shooting, the New York Times reports.
She told reporters she made the decision both out of respect for Kirk and because of security concerns.
“Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
President Trump, at a memorial event at the Pentagon on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, announced he will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ABC News reports.
“The sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk is believed to have jumped off a roof and fled into a neighborhood after firing one shot and has not yet been identified, authorities said Thursday in disclosing that they recovered a high-powered rifle from the scene,” the AP reports.
“The shooter appeared to be of ‘college age’ and is believed to have blended in on the university campus where Kirk was shot, authorities said as they continued to investigate the latest act of political violence to befall America.”
Andrew Egger: “I don’t know what we can do to avoid this fate. All I know is what I can do. And what I can do starts with the acknowledgment that, while Charlie Kirk may have been an ideological opponent, he wasn’t my enemy. My enemy—an enemy I share with many who would call themselves my enemy—is the person who shot him, and anyone else who would reach for violence as a means to a political end.”
“Charlie Kirk’s political project was controversial and provocative in its aims. But in its approach, it was simple and fundamentally laudable: He went where the people were and evangelized to them. His signature “prove me wrong” debates were always a little silly—arguments between halting college students and a professional pundit backstopped by a sympathetic crowd aren’t exactly fair fights. But they also reflected an intrinsically liberal, American view of how politics is done: by convincing people from the ground up.”
“Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?”
— Jimmy Kimmel, quoted by Deadline.
A book signing for conservative pundit Ben Shapiro was postponed after the shooting, CBS News reports.
Shapiro said he was “utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today.”
“Virginia Lt. Gov Winsome Earle-Sears is continuing to ask President Donald Trump to back her bid in the high-stakes Virginia governor’s race — but the president, as of now, is refusing to endorse her,” Bloomberg reports.
Vice President JD Vance cancelled plans to attend the 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City and will travel to Utah instead to visit with the family of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Washington Post reports.
“It is legal to openly carry a gun on Utah’s public university and college campuses with very few exceptions,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
“It’s unknown if the shooter who fatally fired on conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday afternoon was openly carrying or had a concealed weapon, but both are technically allowed.”
Bloomberg obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account which shed light on his yearslong partnership with socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
“The emails span a 20-year timeframe but the message traffic is most active between 2005 and 2008. The communications reveal that Maxwell and Epstein were closer, in many respects, than either publicly admitted. They exchanged at least 650 emails in all and about 203 messages during the first six months of 2008, undercutting Maxwell’s public assertions that her connection to Epstein had diminished by the time he went to jail in June 2008.”
“Larry Ellison briefly surpassed Elon Musk to become the world’s richest person Wednesday after a jump in Oracle Corp. shares added a record amount to his fortune,” Bloomberg reports.
“Former aides to Joe Biden reacted with rage Wednesday to an excerpt from Kamala Harris’ upcoming book in which she said the ex-president was ‘reckless’ to run again and accused Biden’s team of sabotaging her during her vice presidency,” Axios reports.
“The Biden and Harris camps publicly have claimed they were united through the four years of Biden’s presidency, but now Harris is trying to distance herself from him — after not doing so during her short run for president.”
The Washington Post notes Harris is starting to “separate herself from what could become an albatross on her career: her association with Biden and everything that happened in 2024.”
“President Donald Trump’s expansion of executive power, including his unprecedented push to send troops into U.S. cities to combat crime and his attempt to seize control of aspects of the economy, has left Americans uneasy,” a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
“The findings suggest that a substantial majority of the public favors limits on presidential power and does not approve of Trump’s efforts to shatter longstanding norms.”
Wall Street Journal: “Thursday’s report showed consumer prices rose 2.9% in the 12 months through August—speeding up from 2.7% in July, and matching the expectations of economists.”
“The rate is above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Even so, traders are confident the Fed will cut interest rates next week in response to a weakening labor market.”
New York Times: “The new owner of CBS News is weighing giving Weiss the job of editor in chief or co-president of the network, as part of a broader deal to buy The Free Press.”
Politico: “On Tuesday, former Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by phone with former President Joe Biden to warn him about the forthcoming excerpt from her new memoir…”
“That didn’t prevent former Biden aides from going on the attack a day later in the first public breach between the party’s last two standard bearers.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
