{"id":128536,"date":"2025-09-10T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128536\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:06:09","slug":"charlie-kirk-trump-ally-shot-dead-at-campus-event-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128536\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk: Trump ally shot dead at campus event in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somber, silent mood as White House flags loweredpublished at 22:49 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>22:49 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bernd Debusmann Jr<br \/>Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flag at half-mast at the White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/610fcdbf-1d6f-4510-ad2d-38da1c03f3c7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"998\" height=\"561\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s become very quiet &#8211; and very somber &#8211; at the White House following President Trump&#8217;s announcement that Charlie Kirk has died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just a few moments ago, members of the White House press pool gathered outside after being told that the American flags at the White House were being lowered to half-staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was very quiet outside when that announcement came through, and the only sounds I heard for a few moments were the shutters of cameras and a few reporters speaking softly into cameras, or amongst themselves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The flag at the North Lawn of the White House came down at exactly 17:20pm EST. The flag on the South Lawn has also been lowered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are few staffers still immediately visible in the offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, there was a sense of clear, visceral sense of shock among them. Kirk had close ties with the president, his family and members of the administration &#8211; and many of even the younger, junior staffers are members of his enormous, intensely engaged audience of young US conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somber, silent mood as White House flags loweredpublished at 22:49 British Summer Time 22:49 BST Bernd Debusmann JrReporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-128536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}