NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor.

Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News Channel “the mayor is happy” and “the governor is happy” about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican.

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He said the city is “deeply troubled” and “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington,” where he’s sent National Guard and surged federal law enforcement.

Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — claiming they are needed to crack down on crime.

Trump said he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a “hostile” place with “professional agitators.”

Trump first deployed troops to Los Angeles in early June over Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s objections by putting the California National Guard under federal jurisdiction, known as Title 10, to protect federal property from protests over immigration raids.

Besides 4,000 guard members, Trump later sent 700 active duty Marines, and California sued over the intervention. The guard went on to help protect officers during immigration arrests.

Meanwhile, the unique status of the District of Columbia National Guard — Trump is its commander in chief — means he has been able to use it for everything from armed patrols to trash cleanup without any legal issues. Because it is on state and not federal orders, legal restrictions on law enforcement don’t come into effect.

On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar piece of political theater that has targeted immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border. I went with a group that I’m a member of called Never Again Action, a national Jewish organization opposing the deportation machine. The group is inspired by Jewish history and values and draws inspiration from the passage in the Torah that says, “You must not oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be a foreigner, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.” 

In this sense, fighting for immigrant justice is, to Jews, a religious and cultural obligation.

We chose to visit Shelby Park, a 47-acre green space that abuts the Rio Grande and thus the international border with Mexico; you can easily see the international bridge from the park. From January 2024 through April of this year, this area was effectively closed to the public as state troopers and National Guard members took it over, ostensibly to stop border crossings.

We went down there to try and connect with locals such as Amerika Garcia Grewal, a community activist who has been organizing for several years. She got involved in part because of the state’s takeover of Shelby Park, one of the few public green spaces available to the entire community. Maverick County, where Eagle Pass is located, has a 23 percent poverty rate. There are areas of the county, just beyond the Eagle Pass city limits, that lack access to running water. The State of Texas, meanwhile, has spent more than $11 billion on OLS over the past four years. Garcia Grewal informed us that OLS has also caused a brain drain, or rather a brain-force-field effect, on the city. She relayed how several professors hired by the local university, Sul Ross State-Eagle Pass, have declined their offers after learning of the border security operation in the region. The same goes for doctors who received job offers at local hospitals.

OLS and all of the border mania don’t just affect people directly on the border either. In the town of Brackettville—in Kinney County—we spoke to a local organizer about the effects on this town nearly an hour’s drive from the international divide. Local artist and activist Gage Brown told us of multiple high-speed chases, initiated by Texas state police over minor traffic violations, that resulted in massive property damage and loss of life in the county. A 7-year old girl was killed. Five other children were seriously injured. How again is this making Texans safer?

While traveling through the area and talking to local people, I couldn’t help but think how these resources might have been used differently. How many of the region’s children could have been sent to college? How many medical bills could have been paid? How much infrastructure built? How many teachers hired? Doctors, engineers, builders—people who could have put their talents into something helpful for this community—as opposed to wasting all of this labor on a half-baked political stunt whose only results are more positive right-wing media coverage for Abbott and more destruction wrought on an already marginalized population.

Aside from the absolute moral catastrophe that this all represents, it also doesn’t even work! All of this Sturm und Drang about an “invasion” and “building a wall,” and I can tell you that it doesn’t work. The wall isn’t even needed, as we were told that Customs and Border Protection has an array of radar and video surveillance networks that easily pick up when a migrant has crossed the river. As for an “invasion,” this couldn’t be further from the truth. The handful of bedraggled migrants who show up begging for asylum, often malnourished and in need of medical attention, hardly constitute an “invasion force” in any meaningful definition of that phrase. So, on top of everything else, there is the egregious insult that this entire thing is based on a massive lie. 

This is part of our reason for visiting as well. We can see that, since the 9/11 era, what began as an attack on civil liberties for the purpose of combating “terrorism” has been the subject of mission creep. The target moved from foreign terrorists to simply foreign-born immigrants. Now it is beginning to spread to legally present, foreign-born students who dare express an opinion critical of government policy. How much longer until citizens are targeted?

As a Jewish-led organization, we abhor this turn of events. In addition to our religious tradition, which commands us to fight for social justice and protect the innocent, we also draw on our cultural and historical memory. Many of our grandparents and great-grandparents came to the United States fleeing similar conditions afflicting current arrivals, seeking a country guided by democracy, freedom, and the rule of law, so different from the tyranny and oppression of their homelands.

We are also inspired by the times America has failed to live up to these values. Our name, Never Again Action, is in reference to the principle that something like the Holocaust must never be allowed to reoccur. As American Jews, we remember the episode of the S.S. St. Louis: Jews fleeing Europe before the outbreak of World War II were turned away by U.S. authorities. Many were later killed by the Nazis. That era of American policy was, like today, guided by an anti-immigrant hysteria whipped up by those in power. We cannot help but see the parallels. So we seek an immigration system now that respects the rights of immigrants and refugees, consistent with international law and U.S. treaty obligations.

When one goes to the border and looks out across the landscape, the built environment makes the consequences of recent U.S. policy painfully clear. 

On the one side, the American bank of the river is a dead patch of dirt, covered in razor wire, shipping container barricades, and armed soldiers assisted by drones. The land of liberty indeed. On the other side is Mexico. Lush vegetation and greenery cover the banks of the river. It is a pleasing and refreshing sight in this dusty and arid environment. I am told that it was once quite lovely on the American side as well, and that it used to be commonplace for people on both sides to frequently engage with the river—through swimming, fishing, boating, and other pastimes. Our group hopes that through our meager efforts, something similar might one day take place again. 

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By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JESSE BEDAYN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press

OREM, Utah (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the suspect in the Charlie Kirk killing has been captured.

“With a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump announced in a live interview on Fox News Chanel on Friday morning.

Trump said a minister who is also involved with law enforcement turned in the suspect to authorities.

“Somebody that was very close to him said, ‘Hmm, that’s him,’” Trump said.

Federal investigators and state officials on Thursday had released photos and a video of the person they believe is responsible. Kirk was shot as he spoke to a crowd gathered in a courtyard at Utah Valley University in Orem.

This undated combination of images provided provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via AP)

More than 7,000 leads and tips had poured in, officials said. Authorities have yet to publicly name the suspect or cite a motive in the killing, the latest act of political violence to convulse the United States.

Grisly video shared online

The attack, carried out in broad daylight as Kirk spoke about social issues, was captured on grisly videos that spread on social media.

The videos show Kirk, a close ally of Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, speaking into a handheld microphone when suddenly a shot rings out. Kirk reaches up with his right hand as blood gushes from the left side of his neck. Stunned spectators gasp and scream before people start running away.

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The shooter, who investigators believe blended into the campus crowd because of a college-age appearance, fired one shot from the rooftop, according to authorities. Video released Thursday showed the person then walking through the grass and across the street before disappearing.

“I can tell you this was a targeted event,” said Robert Bohls, the top FBI agent in Salt Lake City.

Trump, who was joined by Democrats in condemning the violence, said he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, visited with Kirk’s family Thursday in Salt Lake City. Vance posted a remembrance on X chronicling their friendship, dating back to initial messages in 2017, through Vance’s Senate run and the 2024 election.

“So much of the success we’ve had in this administration traces directly to Charlie’s ability to organize and convene,” Vance wrote. “He didn’t just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.”

Kirk’s casket was flown aboard Air Force Two from Utah to Phoenix, where his nonprofit political youth organization, Turning Point USA, is based. Trump told reporters he plans to attend Kirk’s funeral. Details have not been announced.

Kirk was taking questions about gun violence

Kirk was a conservative provocateur who became a powerful political force among young Republicans and was a fixture on college campuses, where he invited sometimes-vehement debate on social issues.

One such provocative exchange played out immediately before the shooting as Kirk was taking questions from an audience member about gun violence.

The debate hosted by Turning Point at the Sorensen Center on campus was billed as the first stop on Kirk’s “American Comeback Tour.”

Charlie Kirk speaks before he is shot during Turning Point’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

The event generated a polarizing campus reaction. An online petition calling for university administrators to bar Kirk from appearing received nearly 1,000 signatures. The university issued a statement last week citing First Amendment rights and affirming its “commitment to free speech, intellectual inquiry and constructive dialogue.”

Last week, Kirk posted on X images of news clips showing his visit was sparking controversy. He wrote, “What’s going on in Utah?”

Attendees barricaded themselves in classrooms

Some attendees who bolted after the gunshot rushed into two classrooms full of students. They used tables to barricade the door and to shield themselves in the corners. Someone grabbed an electric pencil sharpener and wrapped the cord tightly around the door handle, then tied the sharpener to a chair leg.

On campus Thursday, the canopy stamped with the slogan Kirk commonly used at his events — “PROVE ME WRONG” — stood, disheveled.

Kathleen Murphy, a longtime resident who lives near the campus, said she has been staying inside with her door locked.

“With the shooter not being caught yet, it was a worry,” Murphy said.

Meanwhile, the shooting continued to draw swift bipartisan condemnation as Democratic officials joined Trump and other Republican allies of Kirk in decrying the attack, which unfolded during a spike of political violence that has touched a range of ideologies and representatives of both major political parties.

Tucker and Richer reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi in Denver; Michael Biesecker, Brian Slodysko, Lindsay Whitehurst and Michelle L. Price in Washington; Ty O’Neil in Orem, Utah; Hallie Golden in Seattle; and Meg Kinnard in Chapin, S.C., contributed to this report.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The United States Naval Academy in Maryland was put on lockdown Thursday and a building was cleared in response to reports of threats made to the miliary school, and one person was injured, officials said.

The person injured was airlifted to a hospital and was in stable condition, Lt. Naweed Lemar, the spokesperson for the base that hosts the academy, said in a statement.

By early Friday, he said the lockdown was lifted and the academy in Annapolis had “been given the all clear.”

Naval Support Activity Annapolis security and local law enforcement had responded to the reports of suspicious activity, Lemar said. Additional details about the threat and how the person was injured were not immediately available.

Lemar had said earlier that the academy was on lockdown “out of an abundance of caution.”

Police were seen near Bancroft Hall, which houses midshipmen in its more than 1,600 dorm rooms. It is considered the biggest single college dormitory in the world, according to the school’s website.