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Overnight News Digest September 16, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-16
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NBC News: What we know about the case against the man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk by Tim Stelloh
The man accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk was charged with murder Tuesday as authorities in Utah provided new details about the evidence against Tyler Robinson and said they plan to pursue the death penalty. Here’s what we know about the case. The charges two counts of felony obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child. Robinson, 22, made his first appearance in a Utah County courtroom, where Fourth District Judge Tony Graf Jr. read the seven counts the defendant is charged with: felony aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury,two counts offelony obstruction of justice, two counts ofwitness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child. Robinson, who was wearing an anti-suicide vest and appeared via videolink, looked emotionless and spoke only when asked to state his name. An attorney had not yet been assigned to represent him. Prosecutors said Robinson targeted Kirk, the popular but polarizingco-founder of Turning Point USA, during a Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University for his “political expression.” “The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy,” Jeff Gray, the Utah County attorney, said at a news conference earlier. “Charlie Kirk was murdered while engaging in one of our most sacred and cherished American rights, the bedrock of our democratic republic, the free exchange of ideas and a search for truth, understanding and a more perfect union.”
The New York Times: State Terrorism Charges Against Luigi Mangione Are Dismissed by Hurubie Meko and Jonah E. Bromwich
New York State terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the defendant in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive last year, were dismissed on Tuesday, including a first-degree murder count that could have landed him in prison for the rest of his life. The judge overseeing the case, Gregory Carro, said he had found the evidence behind the charges “legally insufficient.” Mr. Mangione, 27, also faces federal charges, and is still charged in New York with second-degree murder, for which he faces a sentence of 25 years to life, among nine other counts. Those cases will proceed, though no trial dates have been set. In charging Mr. Mangione with terrorism, the Manhattan district attorney’s office seemed to acknowledge the seismic effect of a shooting that sent shock waves through American society and set off a groundswell of support for a defendant protesting the nation’s health care system. But the judge’s decision means that while Mr. Mangione may ultimately be proved a murderer, New York’s legal system will have nothing to say about the broader implications of his actions.
Associated Press: National Guard plan stirs up mixed feelings from Memphis residents by Jonathan Mattise and Safiyah Riddle
President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard into Memphis for a crime-fighting push has some residents worried that it won’t help people who are struggling and could scare off visitors. Others disagree with that sentiment so much that they’re offering free barbecue for the troops before they even arrive. Before Trump signed an order on the deployment Monday, the White House sent out a list of news reports, some of them documenting residents’ support for the measure and others chronicling instances of violent crime in the city. “They want us to be there. They don’t want to be mugged. Who would say, ‘Gee, I don’t want the National Guard?’” the president said in the Oval Office. But Britney Thornton, the commissioner representing Orange Mound, one of the oldest Black neighborhoods in majority-Black Memphis, has a different perspective. She said there’s a “huge disconnect” between the decision-makers deploying the guard and Memphians who know the needs of the community.
The Guardian: Donald Trump lands in UK for second state visit as protesters gather in Windsor by Nadeem Badshah and Matthew Pearce
Donald Trump has landed in the UK ahead of an unprecedented second state visit. The US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, touched down on Tuesday evening at London Stansted onboard Air Force One ahead of a series of events over the next two days, including being hosted by King Charles, military parades and a possible flypast by the Red Arrows alongside British and American F-35 jets. It comes amid criticism in the UK of Trump’s policies and rhetoric, with the Stop Trump Coalition gathering for a protest in Windsor on Tuesday and the group planning another demonstration in central London on Wednesday. Writing in the Guardian, Sadiq Khan accused the US president of doing more than anyone else to “fan the flames of divisive, far-right politics around the world in recent years”. The mayor of London said the US president’s deployment of the military in US cities and targeting of minorities was “straight out of the autocrat’s playbook”.
El País in English: Israel launches ground offensive in Gaza City by Tizana Trotta
The Israeli army has launched a ground offensive to take control of Gaza City, the capital of the Palestinian enclave, despite the fact that more than half a million people remain in the city. After a night of constant and intense bombardment, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced the start of an “intensive operation” in the city. Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that “Gaza is burning” and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “is striking the terrorist infrastructure with an iron fist to create the conditions necessary for the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.” An Israeli military source confirmed the “move to the main phase” of the offensive on the city, where hundreds of thousands of people remain. The IDF, he said, has mobilized two divisions, which “will be joined by others later” and will carry out a “combined and gradual” movement of troops. The offensive has been launched despite the fact that, after two years of continuous forced displacement and with no safe place now left to flee to, most of the one million people who were estimated to be living in the capital remain there. The IDF estimates that only between 300,000 and 400,000 have evacuated, amid bombardments and exorbitant prices for transport out of the city by car or donkey.
AlJazeera: Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka: Is South Asia fertile for Gen Z revolutions? by Yashraj Sharma
The rattle of iron gates sounded like drumbeats as the crowd surged forward. A sea of bodies stormed through the barricades, which had stood as sentinels of power barely hours ago. The hallways of the house of the country’s leader echoed with the thunder of muddy footsteps. Some smashed windows and artefacts, others picked up luxury bedsheets or shoes. The building and its plush interiors had been symbols of crushing authority, impenetrable and out of reach for the country’s teeming millions. Now, however, they briefly belonged to the people. This was Nepal last week. It was also Sri Lanka in 2022, and Bangladesh in 2024. As Nepal, a country of 30 million people sandwiched between India and China, now plots its future in ways alien to traditional electoral democracies, the spate of youth-led protest movements that have toppled governments one after the other in South Asia has also sparked a broader question: Is the world’s most densely populated region Ground Zero for Gen Z revolutions?
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