https://www.scmp.com/rss/523490/feed The latest news and top stories on Turning Point USA. A prominent US-based non-profit organisation, Turning Point USA is dedicated to advocating conservative politics among young people. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, it focuses on identifying, educating, training and organising students to promote principles of freedom, free markets and limited government. Recognised as the largest and fastest growing youth organisation in America, it engages in campus activism, hosts major conferences and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse UK police said two new charges, of rape and sexual assault, had been issued on Tuesday against British comedian and actor Russell Brand. The media personality turned anti-establishment influencer already pleaded not guilty in May to five charges - one count of rape, one of oral rape, two of sexual assault and one of indecent assault between 1999 and 2005. “These new charges are in relation to two further women and are in addition to the charges issued to Brand in April 2025 which involved four... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3337564/russell-brand-charged-new-counts-rape-sexual-assault-uk?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3337564/russell-brand-charged-new-counts-rape-sexual-assault-uk?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:51:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters The United States on Thursday designated four entities in Germany, Italy and Greece as global terrorists, accusing them of being “violent Antifa groups” as US President Donald Trump takes aim at left-wing groups. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement he had designated German-based Antifa Ost as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists”, along with three other groups in Greece and Italy, in an effort to build on Trump’s “commitment to confront Antifa’s campaign of political... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3332752/violent-antifa-us-designates-4-left-wing-groups-europe-terrorists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3332752/violent-antifa-us-designates-4-left-wing-groups-europe-terrorists?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:39:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Long, blonde, wavy hair, heavy make-up and cosmetic injections: like many women in Donald Trump’s orbit, political consultant Melissa Rein Lively wears her support for the US president on her face. With the rise of Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, a group of well-connected and well-off Republican women have come into the spotlight sporting what the US media have dubbed the “Maga look”. “This has always been my look. I just found my tribe,” said Rein Lively, 40, founder of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/beauty/trends/article/3332635/how-maga-women-erika-kirk-show-their-support-donald-trump-big-lips-and-botox?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/beauty/trends/article/3332635/how-maga-women-erika-kirk-show-their-support-donald-trump-big-lips-and-botox?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:00:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US Vice-President J.D. Vance has defended his hopes that his wife Usha, who was raised as a Hindu, converts to Christianity. A fervent Catholic who himself converted in 2019, Vance said on Friday that pushback against his remarks reeks of “anti-Christian bigotry”. The 41-year-old was asked about raising their three children in an interfaith marriage at a Turning Point USA event honouring assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday. “Do I hope... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331198/jd-vance-defends-wish-hindu-wife-usha-convert-christianity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331198/jd-vance-defends-wish-hindu-wife-usha-convert-christianity?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:19:10 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by US officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The US State Department said on Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college campus on September 10. The announcement came as US President Donald Trump was posthumously... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329038/us-revokes-visas-6-foreigners-over-charlie-kirk-related-speech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329038/us-revokes-visas-6-foreigners-over-charlie-kirk-related-speech?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:39:17 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump proclaimed Charlie Kirk a “martyr for American freedom” in a memorial ceremony to commemorate the political activist as Erika Kirk said she forgave the man who gunned down her husband. “On that day, this evangelist for American liberty became immortal,” Trump said on Sunday before tens of thousands of mourners inside the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona. “He’s a martyr now for American freedom.” Trump described how Kirk would ask him to fly across the country to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:16:07 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service George Zinn, the Utah man who falsely confessed to killing Charlie Kirk moments after last week’s fateful shooting at Utah Valley University, now stands accused of felony sexual exploitation of a minor. The Provo Police Department arrested Zinn last Wednesday after he loudly stated he was responsible for assassinating the 31-year-old right-wing activist, allowing “the actual suspect to flee and to hinder law enforcement”, according to a Tuesday statement from the Utah County Sheriff’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325786/fake-charlie-kirk-shooter-george-zinn-arrested-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325786/fake-charlie-kirk-shooter-george-zinn-arrested-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:43:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man charged with murder on Tuesday in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, sent a text message confessing to his partner and hid a note beforehand saying he had the chance to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it”, a prosecutor said. DNA on the trigger of the rifle that killed Kirk also matched that of Robinson, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said while outlining the evidence and announcing charges that could result in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325780/tyler-robinson-charged-charlie-kirks-murder-could-face-death-penalty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325780/tyler-robinson-charged-charlie-kirks-murder-could-face-death-penalty?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:38:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Vice-President J.D. Vance on Monday hosted the radio programme of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist who was assassinated last week, telling listeners that the best way he knows how to honour his friend is to be a better husband and father. Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show from his ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. The live streaming of the two-hour programme was broadcast in the White House press briefing room and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325646/vance-hosts-charlie-kirk-radio-show-pledges-honour-friend-being-better-husband?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325646/vance-hosts-charlie-kirk-radio-show-pledges-honour-friend-being-better-husband?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:48:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The man arrested over conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and had “leftist ideology”, Utah’s governor said on Sunday, confirming details likely to inflame the contentious national debate over the killing. I can confirm that,” Republican Governor Spencer Cox told CNN’s State of the Union talk show when asked about suspect Tyler Robinson’s reported relationship with a trans partner. “The roommate was a romantic partner, a male... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325516/alleged-charlie-kirk-killer-had-leftist-beliefs-utah-governor-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325516/alleged-charlie-kirk-killer-had-leftist-beliefs-utah-governor-says?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:16:35 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has pledged to carry on her husband’s work, after US authorities announced his alleged assassin had finally been captured. Investigators had appeared to be making slow progress in the hunt for whoever gunned down Donald Trump’s close ally, until they released security camera images of a young man. “We got him,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox told a press conference on Friday, identifying the suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, who had reportedly been... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325435/charlie-kirks-widow-vows-continue-his-work?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325435/charlie-kirks-widow-vows-continue-his-work?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:20:51 +0000 Reuters Reuters US investigators on Thursday released photos and a video of a person of interest in the fatal shooting of influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said they had found the rifle believed to have been used in the politically charged killing. Kirk, a 31-year-old author, podcast host and close ally of US President Donald Trump, helped build the Republican Party’s support among younger voters. He was killed on Wednesday by a single gunshot as he gave a talk at a university in Utah in what... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325244/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-says-assassins-high-powered-rifle-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325244/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-says-assassins-high-powered-rifle-found?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:06:33 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US President Donald Trump’s confirmation of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, his close ally, at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday has sent shock waves through an already deeply divided nation. “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie”, Trump wrote on social media. Calling it a “dark moment for America”, Trump in a video address from the Oval... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325102/right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-utah-trump-says-we-must-all-pray-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325102/right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-utah-trump-says-we-must-all-pray-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:30:47 +0000