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What Would Charlie Kirk Do Today?

A year after the killing of the 31-year-old conservative youth leader, the movement he helped create has splintered. Would that be the case if he were still alive?

© Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

People arrive at a memorial at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz., to pay their respects to Charlie Kirk last year.
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A Year After Charlie Kirk’s Killing, a Divided Utah Campus Honors Him

As thousands converged on the university where the activist was shot, some students said they just wanted to move on.

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The Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah, on Thursday, a year after Charlie Kirk was killed while speaking to students.
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