WASHINGTON—FBI Director Kash Patel argued Wednesday that the bureau deals with “facts” and not “conspiracy theories” as he addressed speculation over the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk. An ideological assassin killed Kirk as he spoke on September 10 at Utah Valley University, and the investigation into the assassination is ongoing. Authorities have identified Tyler Robinson as the killer, a young man who lived with his “transgender partner,” a male attempting to transition to a transgender female. That individual, identified as 22-year-old Lance Twiggs, is reported to be fully cooperating with federal authorities. Since Kirk’s death, online commentators and social media users have wildly speculated about theories surrounding Kirk’s assassination, including the idea that Robinson was not the killer, that foreign nations were involved in killing Kirk, and criticisms of Kirk’s grieving widow and her decision to carry on Turning Point’s mission. In the Oval Office on Wednesday, when asked if he could give an update on the investigation into Kirk’s death in light of online speculation, Patel told The Daily Wire that the FBI is focused solely on “facts.” Photographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images “The only thing we deal with at the FBI and DOJ is facts,” Patel responded, flanked by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi. “We delivered in record speed a manhunt to capture Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin in 33 hours,” he explained. “If you put that in perspective to Luigi Mangione or the Boston bomber, they took them five days, and a police officer lost their life in the manhunt.” .@MaryMargOlohan: Do you have any updates on Charlie Kirk’s assassination in light of the conspiracy theories circulating online? @FBIDirectorKash: “The only thing we deal with at the FBI and DOJ is facts…the best thing we can do to honor my friend Charlie Kirk’s life is to… pic.twitter.com/erEa5qqdrO — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 15, 2025 “We are running on absolutely every single lead, and the best thing we can do to honor my friend Charlie Kirk’s life is to make sure that everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Patel said. “And that’s what we are focused on, investigating the facts, not trading in conspiracy theories.” On Tuesday, President Trump honored Kirk posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Kirk’s friends and family gathered Tuesday at the White House in the Rose Garden, newly renovated by the president, to honor Kirk’s memory and to recognize him for his patriotic contributions to the United States of America. Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, was present and emotional at the event, as were many members of the Turning Point USA organization. The event was purposefully held on Tuesday, October 14, the day that should have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday, and Trump said in his remarks that he cut his historic trip to the Middle East short in order to be home in time to honor Kirk on his birthday. “Five weeks ago, our nation was robbed of this extraordinary champion. He was a champion in every way — I got to know him so well,” President Trump said. “It was a horrible, heinous, demonic act of murder. He was assassinated in the prime of his life for boldly speaking the truth, for living his faith, and relentlessly fighting for a better and stronger America. He loved this country, and that’s why this afternoon, it’s my privilege to posthumously award Charles James Kirk our nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”

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Our Top 10 Traffic Songs list looks at one of the most successful bands in classic rock history. Their sound defined the perfect balance of bass, drums, guitar, rock organ, and vocals, perfectly performed with spirit, passion, and incredible soul. The band featured an all-star cast of musicians who would continue with brilliant solo careers and new band projects. The band originated in England in 1967. The band was formed by Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood. Traffic’s first album, Mr. Fantasy, was released in 1967. The albums featured all four original members. However, Dave Mason left the band before The post Top 10 Traffic Songs Of All Time appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

From the restaurant scene in Miami to the fan-powered boats of the Everglades, people are really excited about oysters. Can you imagine—the bivalve so associated with cold waters in places like Brittany, Sydney, Galway, or California, being grown in the muddy, tropical Everglades? If your first instinct was to swear never to eat one, maybe […] The post Everglades Farm Is Reviving Florida’s Oyster Industry, Making the Tables of Michelin-Starred Restaurants appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Backlist Bonanza Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Evil Houses Houses that try to murder their occupants is one of our favorite horror tropes… By Alex Brown | Published on October 16, 2025 Comment 1 Share New Share I don’t read much horror, but nothing will get between me and a good haunted house story. The wave of haunted house movies from the late 1990s and early 2000s—featuring such, well, maybe “classics” is too strong a word, like Thirteen Ghosts, The Haunting, What Lies Beneath, and House on Haunted Hill—are part of my regular Halloween media rotation. Houses trying to murder their occupants is one of my favorite horror tropes, and the following five books are some great examples of it. The Good House by Tananarive Due (Atria Books, 2003) Angela Toussaint is a high-powered Hollywood lawyer dealing with the aftermath of a messy divorce and joint custody. With teenage son Corey in tow, she decides to take a break from everything and spend the summer in her childhood home in the small town of Sacajawea, Washington. Of course, her troublesome ex-husband Tariq crashes her peace and quiet. Although the house itself is known by the chipper name of “Good House,” within its walls, things are anything but. Built by Angela’s root worker ancestor a century prior, Good House has seen plenty of horror over the years, both inside the house and outside in the racist local community. When Corey unintentionally summons an evil spirit, it will take every ounce of strength Angela has to rescue him from a grim fate. The Haunted by Danielle Vega (The Haunted #1 — Razorbill, 2019) When her parents relocate to Drearford, New York, Hendricks Becker-O’Malley wants nothing more than to leave behind the terrible thing that happened to her in her old town. The trauma of that event drives a lot of her future choices. The rundown mansion, Steele House, is the perfect project for her house-flipper parents. But all isn’t as it seems. The house is, as Hendricks learns first hand, very much haunted. Living in that house is an unsettling experience. Screams echo through the halls, people wake up with strange injuries, and there’s a pervasive and overwhelming sense of looming dread. Eddie Ruiz, a schoolmate, lost family members to that house before Hendricks moved in, so he teams up with her on an exorcism. Things get worse when their cleansing attempt goes horribly wrong. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey (Tor Books, 2022) Vera Crowder left home years ago. Her father, a notorious serial killer, died in prison, and her cold and distant mother cut her out of her life. Now with her mother teetering on the edge of death, Vera is forced to return. She plans to put the house in order in preparation for her mother’s demise, but things keep getting in the way. Things like her mother’s knife-sharp personality, the fragments of her father’s journal that keep appearing around the house, and the creepy artist and son of her father’s true crime biographer who moved himself in and now won’t leave. The Crowder house is haunted, but by whom? Ghosts? Cruel humans? Or Vera herself? Francis Crowder slaughtered too many people under the floorboards of their picture-perfect suburban home, and now that blood is bubbling up, ready to pull Vera into its depths. She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA, 2023) Let’s take a trip to Đà Lạt, Vietnam to visit Nhà Hoa, a hundred year old French colonial mansion. It’s currently owned by the estranged father of sisters Jade and Lily Nguyen who plans to restore it to its former glory. He promises Jade money for college in exchange for the girls spending five weeks helping him with the renovation. At first, only Jade encounters the strange goings-on in the house. She finds dead bugs in inexplicable locations. Ba keeps secrets and lies to his daughters. Things go bump in the night. Lily acts strange, like she’s someone she’s not. Florence, the beautiful daughter of her father’s business partner, makes it hard for Jade to stay in the closet as a bisexual. But the real horror is colonialism. The sins of the past threaten to consume the Nguyens. Just because they’re dead doesn’t mean the French colonizers who built the estate aren’t still hellbent on stealing everything from their imperial victims. Model Home by Rivers Solomon (MCD, 2024) Growing up in a predominately white community in the suburbs outside Dallas was no small feat for the Maxwell kids. As the only Black family in the gated neighborhood, the Maxwells survived by the sheer bullheadedness of their mother. But it wasn’t just oppression that wore them down. Terrible things happened in that house, horrors no one could understand, a malevolent force draining them dry. As soon as they could, they got out of Dodge. Now as adults, Ezri, Eve, and Emmanuelle return to find their parents dead. The cops ruled it a murder-suicide, but the siblings know it was the house that killed them. It’s Rivers Solomon, so be prepared for poetic prose, heavy discussions of queerness, neurodivergence, class, race, and trauma along with supernatural horror.[end-mark] The post Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Evil Houses appeared first on Reactor.