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Conspiracy theories have flourished after the public assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, with blame for his murder pointing in all directions.

CNN's Marshall Cohen reported that partisans on the left and right have pushed baseless claims about the Turning Point USA head's slaying all over social media, with more than 2 million unique posts on the topic on X, formerly Twitter, which the data analytics firm PeakMetrics said was roughly double the volume of posts after the attempted assassination of then-candidate Trump last year.

“This is the worst I’ve seen,” said Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank Alliance for Securing Democracy. “I’ve seen these cycles play out over and over, but the trajectory has gotten worse. This really is a case where both sides have engaged in irresponsible, if not reprehensible, behavior.”...

CNN's Harry Enten flagged a pair of similar polling numbers that underlined Republican attitudes to President Donald Trump's crackdown on his media antagonists.

The president's Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses for stations that continued airing Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show, which prompted ABC parent company Disney to dump the host hours later on Tuesday. Enten told "CNN News Central" that polls show Republicans are thrilled.

"There are rare points in which I see a piece of data and it just sort of jumps off the screen at me, and this is one," Enten said, "because I really just think it tells the entire story, and this is among Republicans. [Pollsters asked in December whether] the media is biased and should be punished. Look at this: 71 percent of Republicans agree with the idea that the media is biased and should be punished. They absolutely, Republicans are absolutely loving what is happening right now to Jimmy Kimmel, absolutely love the words that are coming out of Brendan Carr's mouth."...

Evidence gathered by investigators suggest a suspected gunman who allegedly killed a Democratic state legislator and her husband and wounded another planned a "long-term" campaign against his political enemies.

Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested following a two-day manhunt and charged in the killings of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the shootings of John and Yvette Hoffman. NBC News correspondent Tom Winter discussed the evidence already turned up in the case by federal investigators.

"One, they say that they found a note effectively addressed to the FBI in a Buick that he bought," Winter said. "So he bought an e-bike and a Buick after the shooting, while he was on the run, for $900, and they say inside that they found a note where he effectively says, you know, 'Look, I'm the guy that you're looking for, this is me.' ...

9/11 families are speaking out about the upcoming Saudi LIV Golf Tournament scheduled for this weekend at Trump National Bedminster in New Jersey. The 4-day tournament features 48 professional golfers competing for $25 million dollars of prize money provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan explained why the upcoming Trump sponsored tournament is making so many angry.

Trump telling the Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t know much about the 9/11 families or their strong feelings is completely untrue according to one victim’s family member. ...

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon cheered the news that former President Donald Trump has a plan to "deconstruct" government departments in his second term — stacking them with thousands of Trump appointees.

Axios reported over the weekend that Trump has a "radical plan" for his second term, which threatens the jobs of 50,000 government employees. The plan would involve "purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his 'America First' ideology," and go beyond traditional government appointments to government agencies.

Bannon — recently convicted of defying a Congressional subpoena to testify to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks — seemed defiant and energized by aggressive plans for a potential Trump second term....

At a House Oversight Committee hearing with firearms manufacturers on Wednesday, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) said that Democrats will soon be blaming forks and spoons for obesity because they have linked mass shootings to the availability of assault-style rifles. Watch the footage below:

The congressman demanded an apology from Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) because he said that she had not held enough hearings on crime. Hice also demanded action on drugs and immigration....

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) suggested over the weekend that a Trump administration official may have quietly contacted a federal appeals judge to stall a contempt inquiry, and the legal analyst interviewing him declared that if so, “people are going to jail.”

In a clip flagged by political video aggregator Acyn Torabi from the Legal AF podcast, Whitehouse laid out a hypothetical involving D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee.

“If some MAGA official communicated to Judge Rao or her chambers and that resulted in the administrative stay that held the door open and kept the facts from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation and stalled investigation into misconduct by the DOJ,” Whitehouse began, “ask any judge how big a deal that is.”...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) bragged about a road salt win at a Maine Senate debate, and her challenger's comeback had observers cheering.

On Tuesday, Collins faced Democratic challenger Troy Jackson in a debate weeks before the midterms. Asked what she would do about President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, Collins pointed to a specific victory.

"I was successful at getting road salt removed from the tariff list," Collins said. Jackson responded by pouncing on the answer....

Former MLB superstar Roger Clemens fact-checked President Donald Trump during his Texas rally Wednesday night.

Trump traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to stump for Republicans like Tano Tijerina in his race against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whom Trump attacked for what he considered to be a "disloyal act" by not becoming a Republican after Trump pardoned him. At the rally, Trump invited Clemens on stage to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, because Clemens had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame.

In typical Trump fashion, the president also rattled off a fact about Clemens that the former big league pitcher was quick to correct. ...