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Nexstar says that it will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s show from its ABC stations “for the foreseeable future” following his remarks about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The company said, “Nexstar’s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show. Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.” Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, “We had some new lows over the weekend with...

Online courtroom footage captured the moment Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin Tyler Robinson showed a flash of emotion as prosecutors officially filed to seek the death penalty. Robinson, 22, looked at the floor and appeared dazed as he sat in court virtually from the Utah County Jail in Spanish Fork, Utah, on Tuesday. 'Is there any other business that we need to address today, counsel?' the judge asked. The prosecutor responded: 'Just for the court's information, we did file just recently in the last few minutes the notice of intent to seek the death penalty.' They added that the motion was...

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announces charges against the accused killer of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and reads his recorded texts with his roommate on 'America Reports.'

The father of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer realized his son was the shooter after recognizing an unusual rifle shown in media reports of the hunt for the assassin, according to officials. Matt Robinson allegedly told authorities that he and his wife became alarmed the day after Kirk was murdered in Utah, when they saw images of the suspect and the weapon he used on the news. The shocked father recognized his own dad's gun in the images released by police, as Tyler Robinson's grandfather had given him the rifle as a gift before he used it to murder Kirk, officials...

The organization previously called Charlie Kirk a 'professional provocateur' and encouraged campus resistance to his events The nation’s leading professors’ group defended faculty speech rights after the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk, but stopped short of condemning his killing. Rather, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), founded in 1915, called for leaders of universities to avoid "political pressure" to fire faculty members over comments made about the conservative powerhouse in the aftermath of his death. "The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in...

In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing. In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing. “Charlie Kirk was a vicious, hateful fascist and white supremacist,” wrote Martin Pfeiffer, a “QUEER” Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico. “To say anything else is a lie and, quite frankly, fascist collaboration.” WARNING! LANGUAGE!.................... English professor Abigail Higgs of Morgan State University wrote: “I think...

Heather Cox Richardson, a center-left historian with the biggest following out of any individual on Substack, spread an appalling lie about Charlie Kirk’s assassin in a post published Sunday. Richardson has over 2.6 million subscribers to her Substack, a newsletter presumably read by scores of center-left, ‘normie’ liberals. She is a history professor at Boston College, has interviewed former President Joe Biden, and is planning to interview with The Bulwark. By no means is she a fringe figure, nor is she, at least on the surface, a radical; if anything, she is someone who would be welcomed on a show...

This is REALLY bad… Kash Patel just told the Nation by way of Fox News that the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter, Tyler Robinson, had a text message exchange with another person (not disclosed who) where he told them he had a chance to take out Charlie Kirk and he was going to do it. If this is proven, then it seems to me that other person is complicit and should also be charged. Watch here: VIDEO AT LINK................ FULL TRANSCRIPT: My job as FBI director is not to speak to motive, it’s to speak to the facts, and that’s what...

The parents of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who admitted to assassinating Charlie Kirk, once encouraged their son’s intense interest in firearms by gifting him a “build your own gun” kit for Christmas. Robinson’s fascination with guns was well-documented by his family, who frequently posted photos of their visits to shooting ranges. Images show Robinson as a teenager proudly holding high-powered weapons, including an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun, a scoped rifle, and even a bazooka. His mother, Amber Robinson, and his younger siblings appeared to embrace this lifestyle, as evidenced by pictures showing smiling faces at the range, even...

The alleged ‘radicalized’ assassin did not get to this moment on his own. Investigation details show a young man steeped in leftist dogma.After an intensive, multi-day manhunt, law enforcement officials on Friday said they had taken into custody conservative icon Charlie Kirk’s killer. Police assert 22-year-old Tyler Robinson “acted alone” in assassinating the Turning Point USA founder. But did he? Authorities said Robinson’s roommate shared with investigators the alleged cold-blooded killer’s communications on messaging app Discord. In them, the suspect discusses “a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to...

22-year-old Tyler Robinson was identified by authorities as the sole suspect in the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. Robinson is the accused assassin who purportedly fatally shot Kirk on Wednesday at a Utah Valley University Turning Point USA event — while speaking with students on the campus. ... Robinson was taken into custody on September 12th, after Robinson’s father, Matt Robinson, reportedly recognized him in the released surveillance footage and contacted a family friend who informed the sheriff’s office. ... The governor noted that the family member mentioned a recent gathering prior to the shooting, in which...

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was raised a devout Mormon — yet fired his fatal shot at Kirk just moments after the conservative influencer had glowingly praised the Church of Latter-day Saints. “I love how Mormons send missionaries around the world, I love how polite they are. … Half my team is Mormon,” Kirk, 31, said to huge cheers from the crowd at Utah Valley University moments before he was allegedly killed by the 22-year-old trade-school student. “Mormons are great people. Let me just say, I’m an evangelical Christian, but I’m not one of those guys that hates on...

In a phone interview on Friday, someone who said they were friends with Robinson in high school, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the suspect was “pretty left on everything” and was “the only member of his family that was really leftist”. “The rest of his family was very hard Republican,” the friend said. Around sophomore year, the friend said, Robinson became more extreme in his political views and would “always just be ranting and arguing about them”. The friend said that they played video games together a lot in high school and noted that the bullet engraving with...

A Utah State football player is recovering in the hospital after suffering “non-traumatic sudden cardiac arrest” during a spring practice session ... Josh Davis, a redshirt freshman wideout from California, collapsed on the field and was taken to Logan Regional Hospital before later being transported to McKay-Dee Hospital. He was said to be in critical condition but was upgraded to fair condition the following morning. According to the school, he was “taken off life-sustaining medical devices and is breathing on his own.” “Davis received initial critical treatment and was stabilized at Logan Regional Hospital before being transported to McKay-Dee Hospital,...

A former Utah State University fraternity president is accused of sexually abusing a woman at a fraternity party. Logan police arrested Ryan Wray, 26, on Tuesday night on suspicion of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony. During Pi Kappa Alpha parties at the fraternity house, which is off-campus, people who "could no longer take care of themselves" were placed in Wray's care, said police Capt. Tyson Budge on Wednesday. "Several of the girls got talking and realized that they may have been taken advantage of," between last October and now, Budge said. One of the college-age women gave a statement...

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SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Underground quartz deposits worldwide may be behind earthquakes, mountain building and other continental tectonics, a discovery that may aid in predicting tremblers, according to a study released on Wednesday. The findings by Utah State University geophysicist Anthony Lowry and a colleague at the University of London, to be published Thursday in the journal Nature, may solve a riddle of the ages about the formation and location of earthquake faults, mountains, valleys and plains. "Certainly the question of why mountains occur where they do has been around since the dawn of time," Lowry told Reuters. He and...

I love to share with family and friends the joy of watching their children graduate, but I find myself increasingly refusing to attend or even walking out in the middle of the ceremonies. It's not just that these ceremonies are often physically uncomfortable--one has to dress appropriately and sit on terribly designed folding chairs for a long time in what is often hot, humid weather. That is endurable. What is not, however, is that the speakers seem to all be rather radical posturers who view this not as an opportunity to share some welcome insights on the meaning of the...

The likelihood of outrage seems inevitable this year in college football: The BCS controversy, which even President Obama has issued proclamations about, seems ready to explode, since six undefeated teams - two from minor conferences - survive with only three games left in the season. Two conferences, Mountain West and Western Athletic (WAC) are excluded from automatic participation in the BCS, and must compete for one of two wildcard teams, and both still have undefeated teams. But should a team which has gone undefeated and unchallenged take a slot from Alabama or Florida, which are likely to also go undefeated......

The requirements for earning an 'A' in Philip Barlow's religious studies classes include an unusual strand. Students must teach the Utah State University professor something he doesn't already know. "I find in my classes that if I do it right -- if I manage to convert my students, not to a particular faith or lack of it, but to how crucial the study of religion is -- it will change their consciousness and will therefore change what they see about reality," said Barlow, a professor of Mormon history and culture and the Leonard J. Arrington Chair. "If I ignite or...