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Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Likely to Face Charges Tuesday before First Court Hearing
Prosecutors are preparing to file a capital murder charge Tuesday
against the Utah man who authorities say held a "leftist ideology" and
may have been "radicalized" online before he was arrested in the
assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Charges against 22-year-old Tyler Robinson are expected to come ahead
of the first court hearing since he was accused last week of shooting
Kirk, a conservative leader credited with energizing the Republican
youth movement and helping President Donald Trump win back the White
House in 2024.
Investigators have been piecing together evidence, including a rifle
and ammunition engraved with anti-fascist and meme culture messaging,
found after the shooting Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem.
Kirk was speaking there on one of his many campus visits where he
relished debating just about everyone.
Bondi says hate speech that rises into threats of violence is not protected by First Amendment
Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press conference in New York City on Aug. 25, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that, "Hate speech that crosses
the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First
Amendment.
“It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left
normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political
violence. That era is over,” she wrote in a post on X.
“Under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), it is a federal crime to transmit ‘any
communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat
to injure the person of another.’ Likewise, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and 18
U.S.C. § 115 make it a felony to threaten public officials, members of
Congress, or their families. You cannot call for someone’s murder. You
cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family
and think it will be brushed off as ‘free speech.’ These acts are
punishable crimes, and every single threat will be met with the full
force of the law,” Bondi continued.
Pentagon calls Charlie Kirk posts ‘domestic terrorism’; Dem warns discipline is ‘un-American’
Democrats warn military crackdown on social media posts violates free speech protections
The Pentagon is not backing down from its quest for consequences for
those who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s killing, even as Democrats warn the
move is "un-American" and violates free speech protections.
The controversy underscores a clash between military discipline and
First Amendment rights, with top Pentagon officials arguing that
celebrating the killing of an American political figure is unacceptable
conduct for service members — while Democrats counter that the
crackdown risks punishing constitutionally protected speech.
"Hunting down and prosecuting service members for their individual
political beliefs is dangerous and un-American," Rep. Jason Crow,
D-Colo., a former Army Ranger, wrote on X.
"We must condemn political violence AND allow peaceful speech that doesn’t impact the chain of command."
Luigi Mangione top terrorism charges thrown out by judge in state case in massive blow to DA
A judge has thrown out the top counts in Luigi Mangione’s state murder
case – rejecting claims that the accused killer can be charged as a
terrorist — in a huge blow to prosecutors.
In a ruling released Tuesday, Judge Gregory Carro tossed charges of
murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the
second degree as a crime of terrorism against the 27-year-old Ivy
League grad.
Luigi Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The judge did keep alive Mangione’s other second-degree murder charge.
The decision means that Mangione still faces 25-years-to-life in the
state case, but not the 25 years to life without the possibility of
parole that he had been facing.
Mangione still faces separate federal charges that carry a possible death penalty.
DA Fani Willis loses bid to appeal Trump’s Georgia election interference case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Tuesday lost her bid to
get back on the Georgia election interference case against President
Trump and his allies.
The embattled prosecutor was booted from the high-profile case in
December by the Georgia Court of Appeals, which cited the “appearance
of impropriety” over her affair with the special prosecutor Nathan Wade
leading the case.
Georgia’s top court said Tuesday it would not consider reversing a lower court’s ruling.
Trump’s camp cheered the latest development in a statement to The Post.
Trump Files $15 Billion Defamation and Libel Lawsuit Against the New York Times
Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times
for defamation and libel, alleging the publication caused him
reputational damage.
According to Reuters, the president sued the New York Times, four of
its reporters and publisher Penguin Random House in documents filed on
Monday in a U.S. district court in Florida. Reuters reports that Trump
cites a series of New York Times articles in the suit, including an
editorial from before the 2024 election that said he was unfit for the
presidency, as well as a book Penguin published last year with the
title "Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune
and Created the Illusion of Success."
"Defendants maliciously published the Book and the Articles knowing
that these publications were filled with repugnant distortions and
fabrications about President Trump," the filing states, according to
Reuters.
"Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar
Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the
worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country,
becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party,"
he wrote. "I view it as the single largest illegal Campaign
contribution, EVER. Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put
dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something
heretofore UNHEARD OF!"
IDF Begins Ground Offensive: 'Gaza Is Burning'
The Israeli military began a ground offensive targeting Gaza City on
Tuesday, slowly squeezing in on the Palestinian territory's largest
city that has seen block after block already destroyed in the
Israel-Hamas war. Residents still in the city were warned they must
leave and head south.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that "Gaza is burning"
while independent experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human
Rights Council announced that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza,
joining a rising international chorus of such accusations.
Israel fiercely rejected the claim, calling the experts' report "distorted and false."
Trump's UK State Visit Will Mix Trade, Tech Talks With Royal Pomp
President Donald Trump arrives in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a
state visit during which the British government hopes a
multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the transatlantic bond
remains strong despite differences over Ukraine, the Middle East, and
the future of the Western alliance.
State visits in Britain blend 21st-century diplomacy with royal
pageantry. Trump's two-day trip comes complete with horse-drawn
carriages, military honor guards, and a glittering banquet inside a
1,000-year-old castle — all tailored to a president with a fondness for
gilded splendor.
King Charles III will host Trump at Windsor Castle before the president
holds talks with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, the British
leader's rural retreat.
Robert Redford dead at 89
Hollywood icon starred in classics spanning five decades of film
Legendary actor Robert Redford has died. He was 89.
"Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at
Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by
those he loved," his representative told Fox News Digital. "He will be
missed greatly. The family requests privacy."
The Hollywood icon was best known for classics like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."
During his illustrious career that spanned five decades of film,
Redford became an Oscar-winning director as well as an activist.
Charlie Kirk’s murder will break the left’s hateful cancel tactics
President Trump’s second term is the Great Clarification: Things that were once hidden are now being made plain.
This is uncomfortable for a lot of people, but it poses the greatest
difficulties for the left, whose strategy has long rested on obscuring
basic truths.
The Charlie Kirk assassination has made many things clear.
The outpouring of grief demonstrated just how many people loved him and
cherished the principles he stood for — as well as how many stand in
opposition to the violent leftism that ended his life.
And it has also demonstrated just how awful that leftism is, and how
far its perpetrators have infiltrated into our society and our
institutions.
Kathy Hochul is a red-hot hypocrite who won’t support Zohran Mamdani’s tax-hike policies anyway
Kathy Hochul is a red-hot hypocrite.
Our governor has chosen to pander to the far-left flank of her party
and throw her support behind Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran
Mamdani.
On Sunday night, Hochul took to X to share her New York Times op-ed
endorsing him, writing, “New York City deserves a mayor who will stand
up to Donald Trump and make life more affordable for New Yorkers.”
She couldn’t have framed it in a more grotesque way — local elections have turned into all Trump, all the time.
