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US president makes remark in interview with Fox & Friends as FBI faces scrutiny for its response to shooting

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Donald Trump said on Friday morning that it was his understanding that a suspect has been arrested for the fatal shooting of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at an event Utah Valley University.

The US president in a TV interview on Friday morning said he had been informed moments before going on air of an arrest.

President makes remark during interview with Fox News at their studio in New York

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Democracy is the way that we have diverse societies that don’t kill each other, largely,” Lilliana Mason, a leading scholar of partisanship, observed recently. She added: “As soon as we stop believing in it, it disappears.” Dr Mason’s own research suggests that there is sharply rising tolerance of political violence. On Wednesday, it claimed one more victim.

Deadly airstrike was Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest move to obstruct peace negotiations, threatening Qatar’s role as intermediary

When Donald Trump visited Qatar in May, he promised to defend the tiny, wealthy emirate and its rulers. “We are going to protect this country,” Trump declared on his state visit, where he was treated like royalty and honored in gilded palaces. “It’s a very special place, with a special royal family … They are great people and they are going to be protected by the United States.”

Over two decades, Qatar spent billions of dollars to upgrade the largest US military base in the Middle East and spent many more billions to buy US warplanes and other weapons. In May, as the president prepared to visit, the Qatari government donated a luxury Boeing jet, a “palace in the sky” valued at $400m, which is now being refitted so Trump can use it as Air Force One.

Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University

Reward of $100,000 and direct appeal appear to indicate struggle to identify Charlie Kirk’s killer. Plus, the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown

Good morning.

US officials have issued an urgent appeal for help from the public as they continue to search for the shooter of Charlie Kirk, releasing new videos and photos from the scene of the attack in Utah.

Who was Charlie Kirk? The Donald Trump ally and star of the US Republican right galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory views, helping to push a new generation to the right. Even those who did not agree with his values could not deny his ubiquity on the political scene.

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What did the judges say? Announcing Bolsonaro’s sentence for crimes including coup d’etat and violently attempting to abolish Brazil’s democracy, the supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes said: “[He tried to] annihilate the essential pillars of the democratic rule-of-law state … ​the greatest consequence ​[of which] … would have been the return of dictatorship to Brazil​.”