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Who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk and what are the immediate reactions?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The twenty two year old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is being held without bail in Utah. As Steve Butterman reports, Kirk's widow made her first public comments hours after escorting his body home to Arizona.
It won't. I refuse to let that happen.
Since Tuesday's killing, there have been vitriolic debates in public and on social media between supporters and opponents of Charlie Kirk. The governor of Utah Spencer Cox Friday urged people to take a break from social media. The tone he said must calm down.
Why did Utah Governor Spencer Cox urge a social‑media break after the killing?
This
is our moment. Um do we escalate or do do do we find an off-ramp? It's a choice.
Investigators are still trying to determine if some specific thing triggered Tyler Robinson. He will be formally charged next week.
Trump told Fox News that both the city's mayor and the state's governor support his decision. The mayor, Democrat Paul Young, was asked about that.
that. Um I am focused on the resources. FBI, DEA, ATF, those are the things that I believe will truly help us be able to support law enforcement and reduce violent crime.
How is President Trump influencing federal deployments in cities like New Orleans, Memphis, and Baltimore?
I do not Support the national guard.
Young spoke to WATN TV. Trump has also said it like to send federal personnel to New Orleans, like Memphis, a Democratic leading city in a Republican state. Trump has also threatened to send the National Guard into Baltimore. Maryland Governor Westmore says he'll send state police into Baltimore to patrol high risk areas in the city. Some residents are uneasy about the idea. Scott Massioni from Member Station WYPR has more on the story from Baltimore.
Baltimore is experiencing record low crime levels and is on track for the lowest homicide rate in half a century. However, residents will soon see state police patrolling streets and possible checkpoints set up in neighborhoods. Here's Donald Gresham, a community leader. You feel like you're on the plantation.
What are Baltimore residents saying about state police patrolling their neighborhoods?
That's what you gonna feel like because you walk around don't know when they're going to pull you up. Uh they they say they're there to protect us, but they never have been there to protect us. In the community, it's gonna be a place where they gonna really feel like
it's not home. Some residents fear the focus will be on unnecessary arrests rather than directing resources toward health care and education. For NPR News, I'm Scott Massioni in Baltimore.
You're listening to NPR News in Washington. President Trump is urging NATO countries to stop buying oil from Russia and to place tariffs on China of at least 50% for its oil purchases. In a social media post today, Trump said he believed such actions would end Russia's war against Ukraine. A controversial far right activist in the UK is using the assassination of Charlie Kirk to mobilize support for what's expected to be Britain's largest far right demonstration in decades. Vicky Barker reports
Ahead of Saturday's march and rally in central London, the anti immigrant anti Islam activist Tommy Robinson posted a photo of Charlie Kirk, superimposed above the US and UK flags. Speakers at his Unite the Kingdom event include former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, as well as far right politicians from Germany and Poland. A counter demonstration by the group Stand Up to Racism was taking place a few hundred yards away.
How is the Charlie Kirk assassination being used to fuel far‑right rallies in London?
More than sixteen hundred police officers have been assigned to keep the groups apart, and Scotland Yard has reassured Muslim Londoners that officers would be on hand to make sure they feel safe. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. A
ceremony was held today in Nagasaki, Japan, at the site of a World War II prison camp. Dozens of people came from the Netherlands, relatives of Dutch prisoners who had suffered abuse and starvation there during the war. Their names have been engraved on a stone monument erected ten years ago as a symbol of reconciliation and peace. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is accused of killing Charlie Kirk and what are the immediate reactions?
0:00–0:44
2
Why did Utah Governor Spencer Cox urge a social‑media break after the killing?
0:44–1:37
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How is President Trump influencing federal deployments in cities like New Orleans, Memphis, and Baltimore?
1:37–2:28
4
What are Baltimore residents saying about state police patrolling their neighborhoods?
2:28–4:00
5
How is the Charlie Kirk assassination being used to fuel far‑right rallies in London?
4:00–4:39