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Erika Kirk forgives husband’s killer at memorial service: ‘It’s what Charlie would do’
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Erika Kirk, the widow of slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, remembered her husband’s legacy at a memorial for him Sunday — and revealed her thoughts about his alleged assassin.
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect charged in Charlie Kirk’s Sept. 10 death, was much like the other young men that Charlie Kirk encountered, Erika Kirk said.
Charlie Kirk «wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life,» she said.
«Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man … I forgive him,» Erika Kirk said. «I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it’s what Charlie would do.»
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Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, arrives on stage to speak during the public memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sept. 21, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Speaking to a crowd at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Erika Kirk thanked the audience for honoring her husband.
She began her speech by quoting one of Charlie Kirk’s favorite Bible verses, Isaiah 6:8: «Here I am, Lord. Send me,» and recalled a time that Charlie Kirk repeated it at the end of a conference.
«After Charlie finished, I met him backstage and I spoke to him … I said, Charlie, baby, please talk to me next time before you say that statement,» she said.
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«Because when you say something like that, there is so much power in that verse … God will take you up on that, and He did.»
Charlie Kirk was quickly rushed to a hospital after being shot at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10. At his Sunday memorial, Erika Kirk described the moment when she arrived to «do the unthinkable» and see her husband’s corpse.
«I look(ed) directly at my husband’s murdered body,» she said. «I saw the wound that ended his life. I felt everything you would expect to feel. I felt shock. I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn’t even know existed.»
«But there was something else too. Even in death, I could see the man that I love. I saw the one single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about,» she laughed. «Now he knows. Sorry, baby, telling you now.»
Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband, political activist Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium Sept. 21, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Erika Kirk added that she sensed «great mercy from God» in her husband’s death when she viewed his body and saw a faint smile.
«I also saw on his lips the faintest smile … it told me Charlie didn’t suffer. Even the doctor told me it was something so instant that even if Charlie had been shot in the operating room … nothing could have been done. There was no pain.»
Erika Kirk also opened up about their marriage, revealing the private ritual that kept it strong even amid her husband’s constant travel.
«Someone once asked me how Charlie and I thought we kept our marriage so strong when he was busy traveling,» she said. «Our little secret: It was love notes. Every Saturday, Charlie wrote one for me, and he never missed a Saturday.»
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Erika Kirk also opened up about their marriage, revealing the private ritual that kept it strong even amid her husband’s constant travel. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
«And in every single one of them, he’d tell me what his highlight was for the week, how grateful he was for me and our babies,» she added. «And always at the end, he would always end it with asking the most beautiful question, ‘Please let me know how I can better serve you as a husband.’»
Above all, Erika Kirk emphasized her husband’s faith and how he practiced his Christian faith, revealing that he enjoyed journaling to remember important moments in his life.
«And one of the things he wrote in his journal was this, ‘Every time you make a decision, it puts a mark on your soul,’» she said. «To those of you out there who just made that decision, and took the first step toward a spiritual life, I say thank you and welcome.»
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is pictured with his wife Erika Kirk on stage at an event earlier in 2025 in Phoenix. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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She also emphasized how Charlie Kirk did «100% of what he could every day,» and that he left Earth «without regrets.»
«There was nothing that was too hard or too painful or nothing that he just felt like he didn’t want to do,» she said.
«Charlie died with incomplete work, but not with unfinished business,» she said. «And I will miss him. I will miss him so much. Because our marriage and our family were beautiful.»
Erika Kirk, right, concluded by saying she was honored to be the new Turning Point USA CEO and that her husband’s mission «is my mission.» (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Toward the end of her speech, the widow concluded by saying she was honored to be the new Turning Point USA CEO and that her husband’s mission «is my mission.»
«Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie’s vision and hard work, we will make ten times greater through the power of his memory,» Erika Kirk said.
«No assassin will ever stop us from standing up to defend those rights.»
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Irán amenaza con más guerra, aumenta la represión a cualquier sospecha de disidencia y busca contener las fricciones internas bajo la figura de Mojtaba Jamenei.
La primera aparición pública del flamante líder supremo, herido en el bombardeo del 28 de febrero que mató a su padre y antecesor Alí Jamenei, fue un llamado a escalar el conflicto y estrechar filas en torno a su figura.
Nada cambió en el discurso oficial.
“Pido a todos los líderes políticos de Irán que hagan todo lo posible por mostrar unidad. Nunca nos rendiremos. Nuestros enemigos pagarán el precio, porque habrá venganza“, amenazó.
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No fue solo una retórica belicista en la que anunció que el estrecho de Ormuz seguirá cerrado. También llamó a la dirigencia a dejar de lado cualquier división. El discurso podría resumirse en dos palabras: unidad y venganza.
Represión y fricciones internas
A Trump no le será tan fácil declarar el fin del conflicto más allá de la contundente superioridad militar de la coalición estadounidense-israelí. Con un gobierno dispuesto a todo para garantizar su supervivencia y sin una invasión o un levantamiento popular interno, los ayatollah no dan un paso atrás.
En ese escenario, Mojtaba Jamenei quiere erradicar de cuajo las fricciones internas surgidas entre las distintas ramas de las Fuerzas Armadas, según la prensa opositora en el exilio.
Un motocilista pasa frente a un enorme cartel que muestra al nuevo líder supremo Mojtaba Jamenei con sus dos antecesores, Alí Jamenei y Ruhollah Jomeini. (Foto: REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)
El sitio Irán Internacional, con sede en Londres, denunció que las fuerzas armadas se enfrentan hoy a “una aguda escasez de suministro, el aumento de las deserciones y la profundización de las fricciones entre el ejército regular (Artesh) y la Guardia Revolucionaria”.
Esta unidad de elite “maneja todos los aparatos de seguridad. Sería una combinación entre el FBI, la CIA y la mafia. O sea, como tres organizaciones juntas. Controlan toda la inteligencia, los aparatos de represión y las policías. Además, es una fuerza muy descentralizada y es la que tiene más poder porque es la que controla las armas”, dijo a TN el analista Jairo Lugo Ocando, decano de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Sharjah en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
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Según el reporte, la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica negó asistencia a soldados heridos del ejército regular frente a una escasez de ambulancias y suministros de sangre.
“Los rechazos profundizaron la ira y el resentimiento entre el personal de las dos fuerzas, lo que se suma a las tensiones institucionales de larga data entre el ejército regular y la Guardia Revolucionaria”, indicó el informe.
En unidades de misiles, prosiguió el documento, se reportaron fallas en los equipos de comunicaciones y escasez de alimentos y otros suministros básicos. “Los relatos sugieren que los comandantes se enfocan en mantener la capacidad de armas estratégicas mientras las tropas se enfrentan a condiciones de vida deterioradas”, señaló el informe.
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En este panorama de crecientes suspicacias internas, la Agencia de Noticias de Activistas de Derechos Humanos (HRANA) denunció que, desde el comienzo de la guerra, fueron detenidas 200 personas en todo el país.
Los cargos incluyen actividad en redes sociales, envío de contenido a medios de comunicación extranjeros, espionaje y alteración del orden público.
El jefe de la policía nacional, Ahmad Reza Radan, dijo que cualquier manifestante será tratado como un enemigo y abatido a tiros. “Todas nuestras fuerzas tienen los dedos en el gatillo y están listas”, alertó. Manifestantes progubernamentales salieron a las calles en Teherán (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)
Las amenazas contra cualquier señal de disidencia también partieron desde la televisión estatal. “Cuando el polvo de la sedición se asiente, te agarraremos del cuello”, amenazó el martes el presentador del Canal 3, Reza Molaei, citado por Irán Internacional.
Bahar Ghandehari, directora del Centro para los Derechos Humanos en Irán (CHRI), con sede en Estados Unidos, dijo que “la república islámica tiene antecedentes de aprovechar la sombra de la guerra y los momentos de crisis para intensificar la represión interna”.
Pero el temor no solo viene de la posibilidad de nuevas manifestaciones como las que sacudieron el país durante varias semanas y que causaron miles de muertos. La mayor preocupación llega de un eventual levantamiento de grupos armados de minorías como los kurdos, bombardeados recientemente por Irán en sus bases del Kurdistán iraquí.
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“Mientras la Guardia Nacional todavía parece estar atacando Israel, disparando misiles y drones hacia países de la región, amenazando con cerrar el Estrecho de Ormuz y llevando a cabo otras medidas disruptivas, reservó sus capacidades más importantes para reprimir a los opositores armados“, dijo una fuente iraní citada por The Media Line, un medio especializado en temas de Medio Oriente.
Se trata de un momento clave para la supervivencia del gobierno en medio de la guerra.
“En un momento en que las autoridades se enfrentan al peligro inmediato de que los manifestantes regresen a las calles, los grupos armados de la oposición son vistos por el régimen como una grave amenaza”, concluyó la fuente.
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The State Department is offering a $10 million reward for information on Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and several senior officials linked to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Officials said the reward, part of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, is an effort to gather intelligence on the IRGC and its leadership, which Washington accuses of orchestrating attacks against Americans and supporting terrorism.
The reward targets Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with several key figures inside Iran’s ruling security apparatus.
The department said it is also seeking information about Ali Asghar Hejazi, deputy chief of staff for the Supreme Leader’s Office, and Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
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Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 14, 2016. (Photo by Reza B / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
The program also lists several senior figures linked to Iran’s security and intelligence structure, including Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military adviser to the supreme leader, Esmail Khatib, Iran’s minister of intelligence, and Eskandar Momeni, the country’s interior minister.
«The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), part of Iran’s official military, plays a central role in Iran’s use of terrorism as a key tool of Iranian statecraft,» the State Department said.
«In addition, the IRGC has created, supported, and directed other terrorist groups. The IRGC is responsible for numerous attacks targeting Americans and U.S. facilities, including those that have killed U.S. citizens,» the department added.
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A State Department Rewards for Justice poster offers up to $10 million for information on key leaders tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. (State Department / Rewards for Justice)
The agency said the IRGC has also expanded its influence far beyond military operations since its founding after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, becoming deeply embedded in the country’s political and economic system.
«Since its founding in 1979, the IRGC has gained a substantial role in executing Iran’s foreign policy,» the department said. «The group now wields control over vast segments of Iran’s economy and is influential in Iranian domestic politics.»
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The State Department said individuals who provide credible information may be eligible for rewards of up to $10 million. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, on Feb. 25, 2026. (Jonathan Ernst/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The Rewards for Justice program allows the U.S. government to offer financial rewards for information that helps disrupt terrorist networks or identify individuals involved in attacks against Americans.
The State Department said individuals who provide credible information may be eligible for rewards of up to $10 million.
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Nine convicted in North Texas ICE attack as Kash Patel issues warning to those who target federal officers
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Jurors delivered a mixed verdict Friday in the federal trial of nine people accused of carrying out a 2025 «ambush» attack on an ICE detention facility in North Texas.
Nine defendants accused of being part of a North Texas «Antifa cell» were convicted by a federal jury in Fort Worth for their roles in the July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Jurors delivered the verdict around 2:30 p.m. Friday at the federal courthouse in Fort Worth following roughly a day and a half of deliberations, FOX 4 News reported.
«The guilty verdicts in today’s case go to show this FBI’s 24/7 commitment to identifying, locating, and dismantling ANTIFA members and their networks,» Kash Patel told Fox News Digital. «I want to thank our Dallas field office and great partners for delivering justice. If you attack federal law enforcement this FBI will use every resource at our disposal to hunt you down.»
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Law enforcement officers gather outside the Prairieland Detention Center following an ambush in Alvarado, Texas, July 4, 2025. (Mark David Smith/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
During the 12-day trial, which began Feb. 23, 2026, jurors heard testimony from more than 45 witnesses and reviewed over 210 exhibits tied to the charges against the nine defendants, the DOJ said.
Benjamin Song was convicted of the most serious charge — attempted murder — for shooting Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross, according to FOX 4.
All but one of the nine defendants — Daniel Estrada — were found guilty of providing material support to terrorists, rioting, conspiring to use and carry explosives, and using explosives during a riot, FOX 4 reported.
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Benjamin Song was convicted of the most serious charge — attempted murder — for shooting Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross (FBI)
Daniel Estrada, who was not present the night of the incident, was convicted of concealing records and conspiracy to conceal documents, according to FOX 4.
Maricela Rueda was also convicted of conspiracy to conceal documents.
«Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities — not under President Trump,» Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. «Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America’s streets.»
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FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on Dec. 4, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/AFP via Getty Images)
Authorities say the July 4, 2025, attack outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility in Alvarado involved fireworks, damage to buildings and vehicles, and gunfire directed at officers.
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Prosecutors argued the attack was orchestrated by Song and carried out by members of a North Texas Antifa cell, FOX 4 reported.
Defense attorneys argued there was no ambush and said the defendants did not intend for any violence to occur.
«The calculated, violent attack at ICE’s Prairieland facility was an abhorrent way for antifa terrorists to ‘protest’ the way this agency enforces the law — but these verdicts make clear that those who choose violence over lawful expression will face the full force of the American justice system,» ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.
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