Today’s facts 09-11-2025

Today’s facts …

Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday.

The FBI released a photo of a person of interest but is NOT confirmed as the shooter.

Democrats in Congress weren’t shouting “no” to a moment of silence for Kirk, but to Lauren Boebert interrupting it by demanding an out-loud prayer.

Trump will posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Kirk.

In April 2023, Kirk did say, “I think it’s worth having the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

A male student opened fire yesterday at a high school in Colorado, wounding two students before fatally shooting himself.

Senate Republicans blocked an attempt to add language to the defense bill requiring public release of Epstein’s sex trafficking files.

The UK ambassador to the US has been fired after emails revealed closer ties to Jeffrey Epstein than were known.

Dismissing domestic violence as a crime, Trump said, “If a man has a little fight with his wife, they say this was a crime scene.”

A major Danish construction firm returned its Tesla fleet, saying it no longer wants to be linked to Elon Musk’s politics.

US inflation was higher last month as Trump’s import taxes raised the price of goods.

COVID-19 is no longer in the 10 leading causes of death. Heart disease remains the #1 cause.

People who have been approved for a Facebook settlement payment will be notified via the email donotreply@facebookuserprivacysettlement.com.

On this morning in 2001, Wonder Husband was flying NASA missions out of Glenn Research Center. He had a very close encounter with a commercial aircraft as it made a sharp turn. That aircraft was United 93.

Today would have been Mom’s 96th birthday. She would be proud of my work, maybe not happy with some of the facts, but nonetheless proud. Please consider a $10 donation to my efforts: https://gofund.me/64bff6cb7 or Venmo @daynasteele.

Facts matter.