WASHINGTON – The mood at the U.S. Capitol was grim and tense on Thursday, as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

Members of both parties from the Northwest were quick to condemn Kirk’s killing and political violence in general on Wednesday, but by the time they returned to the Capitol the next morning, emotions were running high with the killer still at large. In an address from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump said “the radical left” is “directly responsible” for the death of the 31-year-old founder of the youth-oriented political group Turning Point USA.

“My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other polit

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