Kirk assassination angers and unsettles leaders, residents The assassination of Kirk, which happened in front of hundreds of people and was captured on video and widely circulated on social media, has in particular rattled the nation and drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum.
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Mark Vancleave,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
Gulf Arab states are rattled as a Gaza war that began thousands of miles from their borders nearly two years ago inches closer to home.
Authorities said Casey’s phone was pinged and later showed a remote spot between Thunder mountain trail and Nugget Creek trail, which prompted rescue teams to respond to the area of the ping.
Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
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Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
Kirk was no stranger to the UC Davis campus — in 2023, 100 protestors clashed with police at a demonstration against the far-right commentator speaking on campus, resulting in two arrests.
Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.
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Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
6 Aug. 2025
According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.
While Tesla has thousands of employees in California and Texas, some new electric vehicle plants have sputtered.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
As subduction zones burned through the carbon-rich crust at the edges of the Pangaea supercontinent, any rock weathering that might have buried carbon dioxide now sputtered in the vast interior.
In a video from the post-game celebration, TCU senior safety Bud Clark trolled the rookie college football coach — and his off-the-field partner, Jordon Hudson.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Quick hits The Los Angeles Rams trolled Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh after the Rams' preseason victory.
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