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This is USA Today's The Excerpt. Today, we'll hear how the White House has been mourning the death of Charlie Kirk.

In Chicago, an ICE agent is injured, and a man is dead after a traffic stop,

and new inflation numbers are out. What do they say about the economy? The suspect in the fatal

shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is in custody on a murder charge. Authorities said

they tied the suspect to the crime

through a review of online messages,

interviews with his family and friends,

and surveillance video.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a single gunshot

on Wednesday, September 10th,

while speaking at Utah Valley University.

The conservative influencer's widow, Erica Kirk,

spoke publicly about her husband's

killing for the first time on Friday, vowing to continue his mission. The White House has been

in mourning following the assassination of Kirk, a close friend of both President Donald Trump

and Vice President J.D. Vance. Kirk was a figure whose influence reached deep inside the

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