Erika Kirk is set to meet in person with podcast host Candace Owens on Monday, when Turning Point USA was set to hold a livestream to address conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination that have been pushed by Owens. “Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion,” Kirk posted on Sunday, adding that plans for the livestream would be put on hold. “[Owens] and I have agreed that public discussions, livestreams and tweets are on hold until after this meeting. I look forward to a productive conversations. Thank you.” The shocking announcement came Sunday night after Kirk publicly asked Owens to stop spreading rumors surrounding her husband’s death. Owens quickly reposted the announcement, saying she was “looking forward” to it.   Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion on Monday, December 15. @RealCandaceO and I have agreed that public discussions, livestreams, and tweets are on hold until after this meeting. I look forward to a productive conversation. Thank you. — Erika Kirk (@MrsErikaKirk) December 15, 2025 “I am very much looking forward to this discussion,” Owens added. Owens has used her podcast the last three months to analyze Kirk’s murder, pushing bizarre theories and suggesting that TPUSA was covering up the truth. Owens has questioned the FBI’s handling of the investigation, and suggested that foreign agencies from countries including Israel and France were involved. She has recently put the focus on TPUSA itself, which is now under the leadership of Erika Kirk. Erika Kirk in recent days has pushed back on the claims. “When you go after my family, my Turning Point USA family, my Charlie Kirk Show family, when you go after the people that I love, and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this, no,” she told Fox News Wednesday. Owens took that interview and used it to criticize Erika Kirk more. “Don’t try to, like, ‘mom’ the organization and say, ‘Well, mother’s upset because people are coming after her kids and all of the multimillion-dollar subsidiaries.” In a town hall with CBS News on Saturday, Kirk said she is worried the conspiracy theories are going to taint the jury pool for trial of her husband’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, who is charged with aggravated murder and faces the death penalty. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss asked Kirk directly what she wanted from Owens. “Stop. That’s it. That’s all I have to say. Stop.” Owens originally told members of TPUSA she was unavailable to meet in person, Monday, December 15 — she was invited by TPUSA to participate in the livestream to address her accusations of the organization. Owens offered to connect with members of TPUSA virtually, but Blake Neff, the producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, said TPUSA would be proceeding without Owens. Owens’ schedule appears to have cleared. There’s no word yet on when the details of this private meeting will be made public.

Authorities in Australia have identified the suspects in Sunday’s horrific Hanukkah shooting in Bondi Beach, Sydney, as a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son. Officials gave an update on Sunday evening, and although they did not name the suspects, they revealed that the father had been killed at the scene of the shooting and the son remained in the hospital with critical injuries. “Based on his medical condition, it is likely that this person may face criminal charges,” Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon — of the New South Wales Police — said of the younger man. Lanyon also warned the public against retaliation, saying, “This is a time for calm. Retribution or acts against any parts of any community will not be accepted.” Authorities have labeled the attack — on a gathering of hundred of Australian Jews who were gathered to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah — an act of terrorism and antisemitism. Criminal charges are expected to be filed against the recovering suspect. Local police do not believe that any other suspects were involved in the attack. Commissioner Lanyon noted that the older of the two suspects was legally able to possess firearms — despite Australia’s strict firearm regulations — because he was a member of a gun club and had obtained a recreational hunting license. He had legal licenses for six firearms and six firearms were all that were recovered from his property and from the scene of the shooting. Lawmakers in Australia have already begun to talk about tightening gun regulations even further in the wake of the shooting. “It means introducing a bill to Parliament to — I mean, to be really blunt — make it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that have no practical use in our community,” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said. “If you’re not a farmer, if you’re not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons that put the public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales Police?” Minns also vowed to make it clear to the citizens that the government and police would protect them, saying, “We need to send a clear message to the people of this state … that New South Wales police are there to protect them, to keep them safe, and they’ve got every right to celebrate their faith.” The names of those who were murdered at the Hanukkah celebration have not yet been officially released, but Chabad — the group that organized the popular event — announced earlier in the day that Rabbi Eli Schlanger had been among those killed. Schlanger had recently penned a letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, warning him not to betray the Jewish people. “To Anthony Albanese, I say this with urgency – stop fueling terrorism by legitimizing those who spread hate. Listen to the voices of those who understand it firsthand,” he wrote. “As a rabbi in Sydney, I beg you not to betray the Jewish people and not God himself,” Schlanger wrote to Albanese. “Jews have been torn from their land again and again by leaders who are now remembered with contempt in the pages of history. You have an opportunity to stand on the side of justice.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also warned Albanese to rescind his support for Palestinian statehood, saying in part, “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire. It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas’s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets.”

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REUTERS—A man was taken into custody on Sunday at a Rhode Island hotel and held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine wounded amid year-end final exams at the Ivy League school, authorities said. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said at a midday news conference that the person detained in connection with Saturday’s violence was in his 20s but declined to share further details. Perez said earlier on Sunday that authorities were not seeking other suspects at this time. Detectives anticipated that the person in custody would be formally charged Sunday night, city public safety spokesperson Kristy DosReis said. Other news media outlets, including the Washington Post and NBC News, cited unnamed sources identifying the man as military veteran Benjamin Erickson, 24, who previously resided in Wisconsin. A person by the name of Benjamin W. Erickson served as a U.S. Army infantryman from May 2021 to November 2024, leaving the service with the rank of specialist without ever being deployed, military officials told Reuters. But they could not confirm whether he was the man detained over the Brown University shooting. FBI Director Kash Patel earlier Sunday said in a post on X that the person of interest had been detained in a hotel room in the Rhode Island town of Coventry, a 30-minute drive from the Brown campus. An FBI team specializing in cellular data analysis used geolocation information to track the suspect, Patel said. An update on the @FBI response at Brown University:@FBIBoston established a command post to intake, develop and analyze leads, and run them to ground. We activated the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to provide critical geolocation capabilities. As a result, early… pic.twitter.com/KONDEbrduR— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 14, 2025 The mass shooting shook the community at the university, one of the oldest in the United States. The school canceled exams, and classes, for the rest of the year and the campus was quiet on Sunday as a light snowfall blanketed the city. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said that authorities, as of midday on Sunday, had not yet contacted all of the victims’ family members because some were traveling. He invited residents to a previously planned event on Sunday to light a Christmas tree and a menorah to mark the first night of Hanukkah. “It is quite clear that if we can come together as a community and shine a little bit of light tonight, I think there’s nothing better that we could be doing,” Smiley said. Authorities Release Video of Suspect Seven people injured at Brown University were in stable condition, Smiley said. One remained in critical but stable condition, while another had been discharged, he added. Shelter-in-place orders at the university and nearby areas were lifted on Sunday. Smiley said earlier in the day that residents should expect a visible police presence across the city. The gunman fled after shooting students in a classroom in Brown’s Barus & Holley engineering and physics building, where outer doors had been left unlocked while exams were taking place, officials said on Saturday. Authorities on Saturday released a short video clip of a person of interest dressed in black walking near the engineering building. Providence Deputy Police Chief Timothy O’Hara said on Saturday the individual may have worn a mask, but officials were not certain. Brown President Christina Paxson told reporters that all or nearly all of the victims were students, adding: “This is the day one hopes never happens, and it has.” Students Caught by Surprise Ref Bari, 22, a graduate student at Brown, said he was inside the Barus & Holley building when he heard a series of loud popping sounds that appeared to be gunfire. Bari ran out of the building and asked another student running in the street if he could hide with her and her friends and she agreed. They returned to her basement apartment and hid in the bathroom. “She trusted me,” he said. “The only connection between us is we’re both students at Brown but beyond that, we don’t know each other.” Teaching assistant Joseph Oduro, 21, told CNN he was in a classroom that was attacked. “The first couple of gunshots went straight to the chalkboard right where I was standing,” Oduro said. “Who knows, if I didn’t duck, maybe I’m not here today.” A student next to him took two bullets to the leg and was due to undergo surgery on Sunday, he said. Jack DiPrimio, another graduate student at Brown, said he was initially not concerned when the university went on lockdown because he had experienced many active-shooter drills. The drills have become more common in the U.S. as attacks targeting students have increased. “I had faced so many lockdowns in high school and even a few at my undergrad, so I wasn’t that worried at first,” DiPrimio said in a TikTok video after coming out of a five-hour lockdown. “Maybe I was desensitized.” (Reporting by Maria Alejandra Cardona in Providence and Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut; Additional reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru, Katharine Jackson, Douglas Gillison and Jason Lange in Washington, Jessica DiNapoli and Chris Prentice in New York, Keval Singh in Singapore and Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Writing by Ted Hesson and Steve Gorman; Editing by Sergio Non, Christina Fincher, Bill Berkrot and Diane Craft) The post Person of Interest Detained in Fatal Mass Shooting at Brown University appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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