Xp Lee, a former City Council member, won a special election to replace his political mentor, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

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In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists.

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After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.

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President Trump has approved the 'Memphis Safe Task Force' to crackdown on crime in Memphis. Some residents point to a decrease in crime as evidence that intervention is unnecessary.

A London pub named Biddy Mulligan's Olympia is honoring Charlie Kirk by naming its entertainment lounge after him, nearly a week after the Turning Point USA founder's death.

The race to jump off the cliff is on, as top New York Democrats line up like so many lemmings to back Zohran Mamdani.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claims that Tyler Robinson, 22, the alleged assassin in the Charlie Kirk shooting, was part of the "MAGA gang" as he mocked President Donald Trump’s response to Kirk's death.

If this were an announcement that it was time for the team to shift into gear, the offense heard it, too. 

“Americans are answering their country's call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.

Major League Baseball has called off its plans to hold two games in London.

One former ESPN star said she's received "disturbing" messages after posting about the death of Charlie Kirk.

In what had the makings of a rarity — a non-stressful Mets victory — the Mets found stress.

French writer Yasmina Reza’s 1998 whine-and-cheese comedy opened at the Music Box Theatre on Tuesday night in an askew revival starring Neil Patrick Harris, James Corden and Bobby Cannavale.

Barlow was also "surprised" that she wasn't in the episode.

David Muoka is already gone from Brooklyn. But he might not be gone from the Nets.

The YouTuber was photographed chatting with a new woman in Los Angeles earlier this month.

The House plans to vote on Thursday on the "clean" interim spending bill, which would fund government spending through November 27.

Comments from Chinese official in Madrid have raised questions over who could control the algorithm that powers Tik Tok’s video feed

Donald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncertainty over what shape the final agreement will take, with suggestions from the Chinese side that Beijing would retain control of the algorithm that powers the site’s video feed.

“We have a deal on TikTok ... We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it,” Trump said on Tuesday, without providing further details.

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About 1,400 visitors were evacuated but hundreds were left stuck because of action linked to bus contract dispute, say Peru authorities

At least 900 tourists were stranded near the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu on Tuesday, Peru’s tourism minister said, after a passenger train service was suspended due to a protest.

PeruRail said service was suspended on Monday because the route in Peru’s mountainous Cusco region had been blocked by “rocks of various sizes” as residents clashed with authorities and bus companies. PeruRail’s local unit also said “third parties” had excavated part of its rail route, which affected the track’s stability and slowed down the evacuation of tourists.

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"The irony that he was killed with a gun is unbelievable,” Keaton said of Kirk's assassination.

Living up to its name even in death.

Through two weeks, the AFC East has gone mostly as expected.

The "Sex and the City" alum has been dating her partner — who's 14 years her junior — for almost a decade.

Transneft has told producers they may have to cut their output because of attacks on pipelines and ports, Reuters says. What we know on day 1,302

Russia’s oil pipeline monopoly Transneft has warned producers they may have to cut output following Ukraine’s drone attacks on critical export ports and refineries, Reuters has reported, citing industry sources. Ukrainian drones have frequently hit Russia’s oil plants, cutting refining capacity by up to a fifth, and damaged ports including Ust-Luga and Primorsk, Ukrainian military officials and Russian industry sources have said. Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it had struck the Saratov oil refinery in Russia during an overnight attack.

Transneft, which handles more than 80% of all the oil extracted in Russia, has in recent days restricted oil firms’ ability to store oil in its pipeline system, two industry sources close to Russian oil firms told Reuters. Transneft has also warned producers it may have to accept less oil if its infrastructure sustains further damage, the two sources said. Transneft dismissed Reuters’ reporting as “fake news”. The Russian government relies heavily on oil and gas revenue. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, has said attacks on Russian oil infrastructure are “the sanctions that work the fastest”.

The European Commission will propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil fuel imports, the EU executive’s head, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Tuesday after a call with the US president, Donald Trump. “Russia’s war economy, sustained by revenues from fossil fuels, is financing the bloodshed in Ukraine,” she said. Von der Leyen announced the commission would soon present its 19th package of sanctions aimed at Russia’s war effort – targeting crypto, banks, and energy.

Donald Trump on Tuesday said Zelenskyy will “have to get going and make a deal” while Europe “have to stop buying oil from Russia”. Europe has in fact greatly reduced its purchase of Russian oil and gas, though two big holdouts are Hungary and Slovakia, whose rightwing prime ministers are both friendly with Putin and Trump.

A Guardian editorial on Tuesday said: “Those looking on the bright side in Brussels hope that Mr Trump’s pressure may persuade Maga-friendly governments in Hungary and Slovakia to end their deep dependence on Russian energy imports. That is extremely unlikely to happen, as Mr Trump and his advisers must know.” The editorial listed how Trump’s promises and threats concerning the Ukraine war have all failed to produce results – including how “an 8 August deadline for Mr Putin to agree to a ceasefire somehow morphed into a red carpet welcome in Alaska”.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that so far in September alone Russia had launched more than 3,500 drones and nearly 190 missiles against Ukraine. A Russian drone, missile or glide bomb hit an educational building in Kharkiv city’s southern Slobidskyi district on Tuesday. The regional prosecutor’s office posted video of the strike, saying it injured three men and one woman. Some reports described the building as the pharmaceutical university.

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