Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is on assignment. On the news hour tonight,

the influential right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is shot and killed at an event in Utah.

Poland and NATO take down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace, raising tensions across Europe and questions over the U.S. effort to end the war in Ukraine.

I think it's high time that President Trump should see that Putin is mocking him.

And Judy Woodruff speaks with NBA star Steph Curry and Martin Luther King III about their effort

to bring communities together through service.

Underneath the surface, we're doing the work that is hopefully meaningful and sustainable,

no matter what voice out of Washington's coming up. Welcome to the News Hour. One of the nation's most prominent conservative activists is dead after being shot during a political rally at a Utah

college campus this afternoon. In a social media post, President Donald Trump announced

Charlie Kirk, the head of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died after

being rushed to the hospital from an outdoor event at Utah Valley University.

In the post, the president praised Kirk saying, quote,

no one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.

In the last decade, Kirk has grown as an influential political figure online

and in organizing events on college campuses for conservative causes.

Alisa D. Desart-Dajardin has more on the shooting.

Okay, everybody, welcome back.

Email us as always for me.

Charlie Kirk was a MAGA superstar, a millennial hosting a daily and highly influential

radio show on more than 200 stations that reached across generations.

That's a lot of people, Utah.

Video today showed Kirk speaking at his Utah event, the first in what he called the American

...