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Britain’s biggest company AstraZeneca has paused a planned 200 million pound ($271.26 million) investment in its Cambridge research site, a spokesperson said, the latest drugmaker to retreat from Britain.
The decision on the investment, which had been set to create 1,000 jobs, means none of the AstraZeneca’s planned new funding – originally announced in March 2024 – is currently proceeding.
In January, the company scrapped plans to invest 450 million pounds in its vaccine manufacturing plant in northern England, citing a cut in British government support.
U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co also said this week that it was abandoning a new research centre in London, citing the UK’s challenging business environment.
Asked about speculation over its pharmaceutical investments following the Merck announcement, a spokesperson for AstraZeneca, which has the biggest market capitalisation on the FTSE 100, confirmed is would pause its investment plans in Cambridge, where it has one of Britain’s leading life sciences hubs.
“We constantly reassess the investment needs of our company and can confirm our expansion in Cambridge is paused. We have no further comment to make,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said.
I’d heard about Spotify’s new Lossless feature but wasn’t sure what it actually did. After years of users begging for higher quality audio, Spotify has finally delivered one of its most requested features.
The upgrade makes a genuinely noticeable difference to music quality, with songs revealing details that weren’t audible before through standard streaming. Lossless has been one of the most anticipated features in Spotify’s history, and it’s now rolling out to Premium subscribers throughout September and October.
The feature delivers significantly more detail and clarity than Spotify’s previous audio quality options. For those who have access, enabling it takes no time at all and actually transforms the listening experience completely.
Spotify Lossless is the platform’s highest quality audio setting, streaming music at up to 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC quality. This represents a massive jump from Spotify’s previous top setting of 320kbps, delivering significantly more detail and clarity.
The feature is available exclusively to Spotify Premium subscribers across mobile, desktop, and tablet devices. It also works with Spotify Connect for streaming to compatible speakers and sound systems.
Lossless is being rolled out gradually, so not all Premium users will have access yet. The rollout continues through September and October, with availability appearing automatically once it reaches your account.
Open Spotify and tap your profile icon in the top left corner. Select Settings and Privacy from the menu, then choose Media Quality to access your audio options.
Under Audio streaming quality, you’ll see the new Lossless option if it’s available on your account. Select this option to enable the highest quality streaming available.
You’ll need to enable Lossless separately for different connection types. Choose Lossless for Wi-Fi streaming, and consider your data plan before enabling it for cellular use, as higher quality audio consumes significantly more bandwidth.
Use wired headphones or speakers when possible, as Bluetooth connections compress the audio signal and reduce many of the benefits that Lossless provides. For wireless listening, devices with Spotify Connect deliver better quality than standard Bluetooth, as this streams over Wi-Fi which has higher data transfer rates so allows higher quality audio streaming. In fact, any Wi-Fi streaming or device (so headphones or headsets with a 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi dongle) will give you better quality than Bluetooth.
The improvement is most noticeable with decent audio equipment in quiet environments. Test the feature with acoustic tracks, classical music, or songs with complex instrumentation to really hear the enhanced detail and depth.
Remember to enable the setting on each device where you use Spotify, as the preference doesn’t automatically sync across your phones, tablets, and computers.
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David Rosenberg isn’t always right. The founder of Rosenberg Research, who rose to fame after calling the 2008 recession, regularly expresses a bearish outlook for the economy and markets that often don’t come to fruition.
But in a world where bullish forecasts are the consensus among Wall Street’s top equity strategists, it can be prudent to heed Rosenberg’s warnings. While his predictions usually don’t play out, there’s no denying that the economist sufficiently shows his work, providing relevant data that ought to give investors pause.
In a recent note to clients, Rosenberg provided some concerning numbers on where the S&P 500’s forward returns could be headed, given current valuations.
The index’s Shiller cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is hovering around 37.5. The measure smooths out business cycles by comparing current stock prices to a 10-year rolling average of earnings.
It’s the third-most expensive level of all-time, behind peaks in 2021 and 2022.
Rosenberg Research
Valuations are usually reliable predictors of long-term stock market performance. Bank of America data shows that starting valuations can explain about 80% of the market’s performance over the following 10 years. Last year, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs strategists said that high valuations would lead to relatively weak returns for the market over the coming decade.
In the short term, valuations are poorer predictors of performance. Rosenberg’s data, however, shows that when the market gets this historically expensive — though, granted, it has only happened twice before — one-year forward returns have been negative.
The column on the right in the table below shows forward returns over 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year periods when the Shiller CAPE ratio gets above 35.
Rosenberg Research
“It’s the only cutoff point where every single time is negative,” Rosenberg said in an interview with Business Insider on Thursday.
Valuations alone aren’t why Rosenberg is skeptical of the rally. It’s the heightened expectations paired with a weakening economic backdrop as the labor market continues to show signs of slowing. Job growth has been below 100,000 per month over the past four months, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. And the economy has added 911,000 fewer jobs than previously thought in the year through this March, the BLS said this week.
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Rosenberg believes the outlook will continue to worsen.
He pointed to initial jobless claims rising to 263,000 last week, worse than economists expected and at levels that should trigger downward pressure on payroll growth. All of this adds up to the US economy already being in the midst of or on the precipice of a downturn, he said.
“What we know arithmetically is that the hiring rate today is so low that once you cross above 240,000 on claims, it triggers a negative impulse on nonfarm payrolls, which I think is what we’re going to see when the September data roll out early October,” he said.
The fact that stocks continue to punch through all-time highs despite these warning signs — showing heightened investor sentiment — is one clue that stocks are in bubble territory, Rosenberg said.
“This is what a euphoric state looks like we’re seeing it in real time,” hea added. “We are in a gigantic price bubble that is ongoing. And you know it’s a price bubble when prices move up in the face of negative fundamentals.”
Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will continue despite his death
Johana Bhuiyan
Erika Kirk, the widow of right wing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.
“I loved knowing one of his mottoes was ‘never surrender’,” she said of her late husband. “We’ll never surrender.”
Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of the hard-right youth organization Turning Point USA, died after being fatally shot while speaking at an event hosted at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday afternoon. The event was the first in the organization’s fall tour of college campuses. Erika Kirk said that the campus tour will continue despite her husband’s death.
“In a world filled with chaos, doubt and uncertainty, my husband’s voice will remain and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever and his wisdom will endure,” she said.
Erika Kirk, speaking from her husband’s Turning Point USA office on Friday evening, said Charlie had been killed because “he preached a message of patriotism, faith and of God’s merciful love”.
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At least 15 people have been fired or suspended from their jobs after discussing Charlie Kirks’s death online, according to a tally by Reuters.
“The total includes journalists, academic workers and teachers,” Reuters reports.
In the past few days, reactions on social media to Kirk’s death have led to multiple people to losing their jobs, as the Guardian reported this morning.
The far-right activist was killed this week at an event in Utah. The dismissals from their jobs come as the Trump administration promises to take action against foreign nationals who made light of Kirk’s killing.
Along with government efforts to clamp down, some conservative figures and groups are organizing social media campaigns to target Kirk’s critics.
Laura Loomer, a Trump loyalist, posted to X: “Prepare to have your whole future professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his death. I’m going to make you wish you never opened your mouth.”
More than 100 people gathered at New York’s Madison Square Park on Friday evening to pay tribute to rightwing commentator Charlie Kirk.
The event, organized by the New York Young Republican Club, featured singing and speeches. Curtis Silwa, Republican candidate for New York City’s mayorship and founder of the Guardian Angels, was present at the event.
Kirk was shot this week during an event at a university in Utah.
Separately, in Brooklyn, another vigil for Kirk was held by local politicians and religious leaders on Friday, the New York Daily News reported.
The man shot and killed by immigration officers in Illinois was a cook from Mexico, the consulate general of Mexico in Chicago confirmed.
Reuters reports that the Mexican consulate was in touch with the family of the man. The Mexican government also requested more information from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, whose officers were involved in the shooting.
On Friday, an Ice official shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park, Illinois, as officers attempted to arrest him. The Department of Homeland Security said Villegas-Gonzalez drove his car at the officers, injuring one of them.
Ice officers kill man trying to flee vehicle stop near Chicago
Marina Dunbar
A man was fatally shot during a vehicle stop on the outskirts of Chicago on Friday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers after attempting to flee the scene, according to officials, and another officer was injured during the altercation.
Ice released the following statement after the shooting: “This morning in Chicago, Ice officers were conducting targeted local enforcement activity during a vehicle stop, the suspect resisted and attempted to drive his vehicle into the arrest team, striking an officer and subsequently dragging him as he fled the scene, fearing for his life, the officer discharged his firearm and struck the subject. Both the officer and subject immediately received medical treatment and were transferred to a local hospital.”
It continued: “The suspect was pronounced dead at the hospital, the officer sustained severe injuries and is in stable condition, viral social media videos and activists encouraging illegal aliens to resist law enforcement not only spread misinformation, but also undermine public safety, the safety of our officers and those being apprehended.”
The incident involved a traffic stop to check on what Ice said was an undocumented immigrant. It happened about six miles from where, separately, a day-long protest had been unfolding outside an Ice processing center in Broadview, Illinois, where demonstrators clashed with federal government agents on Friday morning. There were reports a demonstrator was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by enforcement officers.
Bullets found after Charlie Kirk’s killing included messages. What did they mean?
Investigators who found a bolt-action rifle near the site where Charlie Kirk was shot on a Utah campus said that they also found casings scrawled with messages.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old college student was reported to have confessed to his family that he had shot and killed Kirk earlier this week. Robinson was arrested after his father recognised him in photos and video footage police released of the shooter escaping the scene.
One of the casings read, “hey fascist! CATCH! (up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols),”, according to an affadavit filed on Friday in a Utah court.
The arrows were most likely a reference to the popular video game Helldivers 2 and its sequence of controller moves to unleash a powerful bomb, according to an analysis published by the New York Times.
Much of the other casings had similar messages steeped in video game references and allusions to different internet subcultures.
One of the messages, “Notices bulges OwO what’s this?,” is often used to mock participants in online role-play communities, namely furries. Another message said, “If you read This, you are GAY Lmao,” its tone suggestive of the kind of humour found on internet messaging boards.
Another casing read, “O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Ciao, ciao!,” likely a reference to the popular Italian folk song “Bella Ciao.” Popularised as an antifascist anthem in Italy after the second world war, it resurfaced globally in recent years because of its inclusion in the hit Netflix series “Money Heist” and in video games, including the first-person shooter game Far Cry 6.
The casing messages, like Robinson’s political ideology, are difficult to parse. The NYT has reported that Robinson registered to vote in Utah, but is not affiliated with a political party and had never voted in an election, according to the Washington County Clerk.
His parents, Matthew Carl Robinson and Amber Denise Robinson are registered Republicans, according to state records.
Chris Stein
The US government is drawing nearer to a potential shutdown after Donald Trump told Republicans on Friday “don’t even bother dealing with” the Democrats, whose congressional leaders are refusing to support spending bills that do not include their healthcare priorities.
Congress is up against an end-of-the-month deadline to approve legislation funding the federal government, otherwise many departments will stop work and employees will be told to stay home. While the Senate and House of Representatives have made some progress on passing the 12 appropriations bills that make up the budget, it seems certain that Congress will need to pass a short-term measure to keep the government open beyond 30 September.
On Thursday, the top House and Senate Democrats said they would not support any legislation that does not meet their demands on healthcare.
Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, said:
We will not support a partisan spending agreement that continues to rip away healthcare from the American people, period, full stop.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday morning, Trump insisted that Republicans should go it alone on spending – a tall ask because Democrats can use the Senate’s filibuster to block legislation in the upper chamber.
“They want to give away money to this and then that, destroy the country. If you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it,” Trump said of the Democrats. He said he had told Republicans: “Don’t even bother dealing with them.”
The squabble is developing as Democrats face pressure from their base to use whatever leverage they have in Congress to stand up to Trump, with an eye towards retaking control of at least one chamber in next year’s midterm elections. While Jeffries and other top Democrats have been vague about what exactly they are demanding in exchange for keeping the government open, they appear to want to undo changes to Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs imposed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Republicans passed in July.
David Smith
What a swell party it was. Guests feasted on half-shell oysters and champagne at Washington’s luxury Salamander Hotel. Donald Trump Jr danced to YMCA while JD Vance quipped: “They don’t tell you when you run for vice-president that you get brought on stage with the Village People.”
Guests at the $15,000-a-head Turning Point Inaugural Eve Ball last January included future FBI director Kash Patel, Jeanine Pirro and the Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor. But towering above them all, literally and figuratively, was Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and key enabler of the rise of Donald Trump.
Kirk, a 31-year-old rightwing activist, podcaster and provocateur, was killed on Wednesday by a single gunshot as he gave a talk at a university in Utah. For the Trumps, it was like a death in the family. Don Jr wrote on the X social media platform: “I love you brother.”
The shock, grief and anger of Trump and his allies reflected not only their personal closeness to Kirk but his political utility to the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement and prominent role in vetting who would staff Trump’s government. It also raised fears that, in a moment of peril for the nation when cool heads are needed, the president’s response to the killing was just as likely to be shaped by highly charged emotions and calls for vengeance.
Charlie Kirk in his own words: “prowling Blacks”, “some gun deaths” worth it for second amendment right
Chris Stein
Charlie Kirk, the far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, was killed on Wednesday doing what he was known for throughout his career – making incendiary and often racist and sexist comments to large audiences.
Here’s Kirk, in his own words. Many of his comments were documented by Media Matters for America, a progressive non-profit that tracks conservative media.
On race:
If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023
If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024
On gender, feminism and reproductive rights:
Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.
– Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024
On gun violence:
I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
– Event organised by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
Photos of Charlie Kirk held up during far-right march in London
Images coming out of the far-right ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in central London on Saturday show framed photographs of Charlie Kirk being held aloft as protesters gather.
The far-right activist and political commentator, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory views.
A person holds up a framed photograph of Charlie Kirk as supporters of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protest march gather in central London, Britain, 13 September 2025. Two opposing demonstrations are being held simultaneously in London: one led by Tommy Robinson, called ‘Unite the Kingdom,’ and another by ‘Stand Up to Racism.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/EPAProtesters hold a picture of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, on the day of an anti-immigration rally organised by British anti-immigration activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, in London, Britain, 13 September 2025. Photograph: Jaimi Joy/Reuters
Trump issues letter to Nato to impose major sanctions on Russia
US president Donald Trump issued a letter to Nato nations on Saturday, urging them to stop buying Russian oil and impose major sanctions on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
Posting on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump wrote regarding the letter:
“I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all Nato Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all Nato Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA.
As you know, Nato’s commitment to WIN has been far less than 100%, and the purchase of Russian Oil, by some, has been shocking! It greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia. Anyway, I am ready to “go” when you are. Just say when?
I believe that this, plus Nato, as a group, placing 50% to 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA, to be fully withdrawn after the WAR with Russia and Ukraine is ended, will also be of great help in ENDING this deadly, but RIDICULOUS, WAR. China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip.
This is not TRUMP’S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s WAR. I am only here to help stop it, and save thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives (7,118 lives lost last week, alone. CRAZY!).
If Nato does as I say, the WAR will end quickly, and all of those lives will be saved! If not, you are just wasting my time, and the time, energy, and money of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Several fired amidst clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Richard Luscombe
Reactions on social media to the murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk have cost multiple people their jobs as authorities in numerous states clamp down on critical commentary.
Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a secret service employee and a worker for a prominent NFL team.
The dismissals come as the administration of Donald Trump promises to take action against foreign nationals it deems to be “praising, rationalizing or making light of” Kirk’s killing, himself a fervent free speech advocate.
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, meanwhile, has ordered staff “to find and identify military members, and any individual associated with the Pentagon, who have mocked or appeared to condone Charlie Kirk’s murder”, NBC News reported Friday.
Hundreds of Charlie Kirk supporters attended a vigil for the right-wing commentator in central London on Friday, with speakers calling for people to wage a “war on evil”.
Kirk, co-founder and chief executive of the youth right-wing organisation Turning Point USA was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event.
Turning Point UK arranged a vigil at the statue of Field Marshal Montgomery in Whitehall on Friday evening, which saw hundreds of supporters attend and many waving union flags and some wearing “Make England Great Again” (MEGA) hats.
Chief executive of Turning Point UK, Jack Ross, addressed the crowd, saying:
“Despite what certain members of the press have purported, Charlie was not a hateful far-right bigot: he was a good Christian man and his desire to help people came from his passion for Christ.”
A man holds a picture of Charlie Kirk while speaking next to Jack Ross, Chief Operations Officer for Turning Point UK, during a vigil at the Montgomery Statue in Whitehall, to commemorate U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, in London, Britain, September 12, 2025. Photograph: Jack Taylor/ReutersA man wears a MAGA hat as people attend a vigil at the Montgomery Statue in Whitehall, to commemorate U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, in London, Britain, September 12, 2025. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Reuters
The killing of Charlie Kirk is also being used by Tommy Robinson to mobilise support before what is expected to be Britain’s largest far-right rally in decades, which is scheduled to include speakers from Britain, the US and Europe.
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, is among those listed to appear on stage at the rally in central London, which is expected to draw tens of thousands for an event that Robinson has been heavily attempting to monetise.
Crowds have gathered for the ‘unite the kingdom’ march in central London. Read the latest on our UK Politics live blog here:
Neighbours express shock at arrest of Tyler Robinson
Cy Neff
The quiet neighbourhood was like many others in the sun-baked city of Washington, Utah, which lies amid the red rock and sagebrush mesas of the Utah-Arizona borderlands.
Just hours before, news had broken that law enforcement had arrested a suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk, the far-right influencer and Turning Point USA co-founder.
That suspect was Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old college student who they said confessed to his family that he had shot and killed Kirk earlier this week.
Public records showed that Robinson’s family lived here in Washington, a small city of 35,000 people located about 260 miles (420km) south-west of Orem, where Kirk was killed during a public event on a college campus. His death has reverberated across the world and thrust Utah into the national spotlight.
By mid-morning on Friday, the streets near the residence were crowded with police vehicles and a neat row of media cameras.
Melissa Tait, 55 and a mother of four, lives just down the street, and said the Robinson family were “just like any other neighbor” and that they were “no different than my family”.
Utah’s governor Cox makes case for unity in direct contrast to Trump
David Smith
In stark contrast to Donald Trump’s comments blaming “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left, Utah’s Republican governor made a case for unity on Friday.
“We can return violence with violence, we can return hate with hate, and that’s the problem with political violence – it metastasises because we can always point the figure at the other side,” said Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah. “At some point we have to find an offramp or else it’s going to get much, much worse.”
In a tone of moral urgency, Cox added: “These are choices that we can make. History will dictate if this is a turning point for our country but every single one of us gets to choose right now if this is a turning point for us.”
Utah Governor Spencer Cox speaks at a press conference after U.S. right-wing activist, commentator, Charlie Kirk, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah, U.S. September 10, 2025. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Trump on divisions within the US: “I couldn’t care less”
Ed Pilkington
Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, preferring to cast “vicious and horrible” radicals on the left of US politics as the sole problem.
In an interview on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, the US president was asked what he intended to do to heal the wounds of Kirk’s shooting in Utah. “How do we fix this country? How do we come back together?” he was asked by the show’s co-host Ainsley Earhardt, who commented that there were radicals operating on the left and right of US politics.
Less than 48 hours after Kirk was shot in broad daylight on the campus of Utah Valley University, Trump replied: “I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less.”
He went on: “The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders. The worst thing that happened to this country.”
Charlie Kirk’s widow says his campus tour will continue despite his death
Johana Bhuiyan
Erika Kirk, the widow of right wing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.
“I loved knowing one of his mottoes was ‘never surrender’,” she said of her late husband. “We’ll never surrender.”
Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of the hard-right youth organization Turning Point USA, died after being fatally shot while speaking at an event hosted at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday afternoon. The event was the first in the organization’s fall tour of college campuses. Erika Kirk said that the campus tour will continue despite her husband’s death.
“In a world filled with chaos, doubt and uncertainty, my husband’s voice will remain and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever and his wisdom will endure,” she said.
Erika Kirk, speaking from her husband’s Turning Point USA office on Friday evening, said Charlie had been killed because “he preached a message of patriotism, faith and of God’s merciful love”.
FBI’s Kash Patel under scrutiny over handling of Charlie Kirk killing
Kash Patel speaks at a news conference, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Orem, Utah, as Utah department of public safety commissioner Beau Mason, left, and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox listen. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/AP
During a news conference on Friday morning in Utah, FBI Director Kash Patel lauded the work of the FBI leading the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing, while also twice saying the decision to release photos and videos to the public, which led to the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson on Thursday evening, were made at his direction.
However, Patel has come under fire over his handling of the most high-profile moment of his tenure so far. Some FBI employees told CNN they found it galling for Patel to claim personal credit for the most successful parts of the investigation.
In the early hours after the shooting, Patel had prematurely indicated on X that a suspected shooter was in custody, before it later turned out the killer was still at large.
Less than two hours later after his initial post, Patel wrote a note saying the person had been released – a clear signal that law enforcement had not apprehended the correct person.
The following day, in a meeting reported by The New York Times, Patel fumed to subordinates over failure to give him timely information, including photos of the suspect, the now-arrested Robinson. Patel reportedly went on a profanity-laced tirade, telling agents he would not tolerate “Mickey Mouse operations.”
Patel personally knew Kirk and gave a tribute to the Turning Point USA founder on Friday.
“To my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla,” Patel said, making a reference to the hall of slain warriors from Norse mythology.
Opening Summary
About 50 college campuses across the US have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, AP reported on Saturday. Students at some schools spent hours hiding under desks, only to find out later the threat had been fabricated. On Thursday, several historically Black colleges locked down or canceled classes after receiving threats, a day after the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah college.
According to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety, there have been 47 school shootings in the US so far this year, as of 10 September. Twenty-four were on college campuses, and 23 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 19 people dead and at least 77 other victims injured.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is being used to mobilise support before what is expected to be Britain’s largest far-right rally in decades, which will include speakers from Britain, the US and Europe. The rally is expected to attract upwards of 40,000 attenders, according to the anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate. A smaller gathering organised by the group Stand Up to Racism is also taking place.
A fundraising page, organised by Tucker Carlson’s nicotine pouch company ALP on the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, has already raised more than $3.7m for the Kirk family after ALP’s initial $1m donation. According to multiple sources, Kirk’s estimated net worth at the time of his death was $12m.
Erika Kirk, widow of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, gave a combative speech saying her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”. Atour of college campuses by his hard-right youth organization Turning Point USA would continue, she said, in her first public statement since her husband’s killing. She urged students to start Turning Point USA chapters at their schools.
Authorities announced on Friday that they had arrested a suspect in connection Charlie Kirk’s killing at a speaking event at Utah Valley University (UVU) on Wednesday. Tyler Robinson, 22, is now in custody at Utah County Jail.
Robinson’s family friend turned him in, and told officers that Robinson “confessed to them or implied that he had committed the incident”, governor Spencer Cox told a press conference.A family member that investigators interviewed described Robinson as becoming “more political in recent years” and was aware that Kirk was due to speak at UVU, said Cox.
The weapon used was identified as a high-action bolt rifle, and Cox noted that several bullet casings were found at the scene of the crime. One of three unfired casings read “Hey fascist! Catch!”, a second read “Oh Bella Ciao” (which is the name of an anti-fascist Italian anthem), and a third casing had the following engraved: “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”. The Wall Street Journal initially reported on Thursday that an internal law enforcement bulletin said that ammunition recovered after the Charlie Kirk shooting was engraved with expressions of unspecified “transgender ideology”, but within an hour the New York Times, citing multiple sources, reported that these claims were likely not true. The WSJ has since posted an Editor’s Note saying that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “urged caution” around inaccurate reports of transgender engravings.
Donald Trump told Fox & Friends in an interview – during which he also announced that a suspect was in custody – that he hoped the shooter “gets the death penalty”. He declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions, saying “I couldn’t care less” and instead casting “vicious and horrible radicals” on the left of US politics as the sole problem. He added that these radicals “want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders.”
Jeff Gray, the Utah county attorney, plans to file formal charges against Tyler Robinson on Tuesday, his office said. According to court records obtained by CNN, Robinson is being held without bail on several initial charges, including aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, and obstruction of justice.
A Utah Valley University spokesperson confirmed today that Robinson is a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College. He also briefly attended Utah State University.
Not even a spike to the face would deny gritty Kiwi steeplechaser Geordie Beamish a place in the final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday (13 September).
The former world indoor champion produced a phenomenal fightback from a crash with one lap to go to earn his place in the final of Monday’s men’s 3000m steeplechase final.
The 28-year-old Beamish took a tumble over a barrier on the final lap of the second heat. Canada’s Jean-Simon Desgagnés went down with him. A photo later shows how his running shoe is making contact with Beamish’s face.
But the tenacious Beamish dusted himself up and recovered his dignity by working his way back into contention. The New Zealand athlete produced a stunning kick to cross the finish line in second place to book his place in the final. Only the top five finishers in the three heats qualify for the final.
Beamish revealed to reporters after the race that everything happened so quickly that there was “no thinking, just doing”. He suffered only “a couple of scratches”, nothing serious.
Desgagnés did not advance to the final on place but race officials awarded him a spot later on.
Team USA obliterated the rest of the field to successfully defend their mixed 4x400m relay title at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday (13 September).
The quartet of Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver and Alexis Holmes blasted to a championship record of three minutes and 8.80 seconds (3:08.80).
Holmes carried the baton across the line more than a second ahead of the second-placed Dutch team anchored by Femke Bol. The Belgium team rounded out the podium, finishing third in a time of 3:10.61.
The US team exacted some revenge on the Dutch after Bol produced a stunning final lap to snatch the victory in the final in Paris 2024. Since then, the US has been back in dominant form, winning the World Relays earlier this year by nearly three seconds.
The United States had a slight edge after the first two legs in Tokyo, with McKiver adding more daylight on the chasing pack before Holmes took the baton home in style.
Team USA was the most successful nation at the 2023 World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest with twelve gold, eight silver and nine bronze medals, for a total of 29 medals.
Can they repeat this feat at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25?
At the Paris 2024 Olympics Team USA came away with 34 track and field medals.
Ryan Crouser got the U.S. stars off to a great start as he won his third world title on Saturday (13 September).
Read on for the full list of all Team USA medal winners.
U.S. long jump queen Tara Davis-Woodhall eased into the final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday (13 September).
The reigning Olympic champion is on the hunt for a maiden world title in the sandpit as she looks to upgrade her silver from the previous edition in Budapest in 2023.
The 26-year-old wasted no time or energy in the qualifying round of her pet event with her first jump clearance of 6.88 metres. The final cut-off distance was set at 6.75m.
Her gold-medal hopes were given a boost after Italy’s Larissa Iapichino, who along with Davis-Woodhall jumped beyond seven metres this season, failed to qualify for the final.
One of the few women to breach the seven-metre mark this season, France’s Hilary Kpatcha, safely navigated into the final with a second-round attempt of 6.85m.
Germany’s two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo battled to find her rhythm with one legal jump of 6.63m but managed to scrape through among the top-12 jumpers in the qualifying rounds.
Davis-Woodhall arrived in Tokyo as the title favourite, boasting a mammoth world-leading jump of 7.12m from the US Championships in July.
The horizontal jumps star has taken a conservative approach this season, competing at four events in the build-up to the championships. Highlighting her status as the athlete to beat, Davis-Woodhall has not lost a long jump competition since her silver medal at the 2023 World Championships.
Team Canada comes into the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 looking to improve on their stellar performance at the previous edition, where they finished second on the medal table behind the United States. This was their best finish ever in the medal standings.
The North Americans bowed out of the previous edition in Budapest in 2023 with a haul of six medals – four gold and two silver.
Team Canada got their 2025 campaign off to a winning start thanks to Evan Dunfee’s gold medal in the men’s 35-kilometre race walk.
Read on for the full list of all Team Canada medal winners.
