In a Washington still reeling from the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats are deeply splintered and fearful that violent threats to political figures will be a regular feature of the country’s bleak new normal.

President Trump and some GOP lawmakers are blaming left-wing rhetoric, while congressional leaders try to lower the political temperature.

The nation’s long history of violence in the public realm carries many data points. It has felled presidents, presidential contenders, activists like Kirk and some of the most consequential figures in American civic life — Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Trump announced a posthumous Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk, while lawmakers urge for reduced political rhetoric following his murder.

Conservative political commentator and activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while on tour in Utah.

Congressional Republicans want to build a statue of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the U.S. Capitol.

The Michigan congressman remembered the Turning Point USA co-founder, who was assassinated, as a humble person who "deeply loved our country."

Vice President JD Vance will fly with the casket carrying Charlie Kirk‘s body on Air Force Two from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Phoenix, Arizona, later Thursday. Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance,