Charlie Kirk was shot dead while speaking at Utah Valley University, making his murder the most searched news event in both Sweden and the United States according to Google data.Swedish search trends also highlighted topics like the Netflix series "Monster: The Story of Ed Gein", Ozzy Osbourne's passing, the Hockey World Championship in Stockholm, and personalities such as Bianca Censori, MrBeast, Måns Zelmerlöw, Alexander Isak, and Smilla Holmberg.In the United States, trending searches included the
Netflix series "
KPop Demon Hunters",
Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", the launch of
iPhone 17,
Zohran Mamdani, tariffs, and the
FIFA Club World Cup, while
Google's new
AI functionality influenced broader search trends.