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‘What have we become?’: shock across US political parties after Charlie Kirk shooting

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Charlie Kirk’s death by a shooter’s bullet on a university campus in Utah on Wednesday has left the United States, a country already grappling with mounting political anger and polarization, in a state of profound shock bordering on despair.

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