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Satellite Images Reveal Possible Cause Behind Devastating Nepal Flash Floods– www.ndtv.com

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Satellite Images Reveal Possible Cause Behind Devastating Nepal Flash Floods– www.ndtv.com
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In a preliminary satellite analysis, Planet Labs released images that reveal visual evidence of the destruction caused by floods in Nepal that killed at least 46.

Several others, including 108 Indians, are missing, as the flash flood hit Nepal on Wednesday, washing away villages and many project sites in a region bordering Tibet.

Nepal’s disaster authority (NDRRMA) described that a chunk of snow and rock broke off near the glacier zone on the Nepal-China border, about 20km northeast of the Rasuwagadhi border crossing.

That avalanche either fell into a glacial lake or blocked the river channel, and the resulting surge, carrying glacial ice, meltwater and debris — “glacier-inclusive flood” — swept down the Lhende Khola into the Bhote Koshi river.

Russia, Ukraine working toward new large POW exchange — ombudswoman – Russian Politics & Diplomacy– tass.com

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Russia, Ukraine working toward new large POW exchange — ombudswoman – Russian Politics & Diplomacy– tass.com
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MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Russia and Ukraine are currently working to agree on lists for another “quite large” prisoner of war exchange, Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova told TASS.

“We are preparing another quite large [POW] swap, with lists being agreed,” Lantratova said.

A previous major POW exchange took place on August 19 when Russia returned 103 servicemen from the Kiev-controlled territory and handed over 103 prisoners of war to Ukraine. The Pervy Informatsionny television channel of Belarus reported on August 24 that Russia and Ukraine carried out a ten-for-ten prisoner exchange in Belarus’s southeasternmost Gomel Region.

 

South Korea says Russian military planes entered its air defence zone– www.channelnewsasia.com

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South Korea says Russian military planes entered its air defence zone– www.channelnewsasia.com
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SEOUL: South Korea said on Wednesday (Aug 25) it had scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian military aircraft entering its air defence zone, the second such incursion in weeks.

The relationship between the countries has worsened since South Korea joined Western sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and since Moscow built stronger ties with North Korea.

Seoul’s defence ministry said multiple Russian aircraft had entered and then left its air defence identification zone over the East Sea, also called the Sea of Japan.

“South Korea’s military detected the Russian aircraft before they entered the zone and deployed Air Force fighter jets to prepare for any contingency,” it said, without giving details.

The Russian aircraft did not violate South Korean airspace, it said.

Israeli soldiers block Knesset member from besieged Palestinian home | Israel-Palestine conflict News– www.aljazeera.com

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Israeli soldiers block Knesset member from besieged Palestinian home | Israel-Palestine conflict News– www.aljazeera.com
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Israeli soldiers blocked Knesset member Ofer Cassif from reaching a Palestinian family home in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, where settlers have maintained a 17-day siege. Cassif eventually reached the families and expressed his support.

Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review– www.france24.com

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Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review– www.france24.com
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President Donald Trump has submitted to Congress for review an agreement with Saudi Arabia aimed at bolstering the kingdom’s civilian nuclear program, but continues to insist that it won’t move forward if Saudi Arabia doesn’t normalise relations with Israel, according to a Trump administration official.

The classified document was submitted to Capitol Hill on Monday as required by the Atomic Energy Act, according to the administration official, a congressional aide, and two others familiar with the matter. All four spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly on the classified matter.

The agreement was signedlast month in Washington by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart. But the next day, Trump announced he was requiring the Saudis to normalise relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords as part of the pact — raising doubts that the agreement would come to fruition.

Neither the administration official nor the others familiar with the matter would comment on whether Trump’s call for the Saudis to join the accords is detailed in the classified document submitted for the congressional review.

Soros-backed democrat threatens to “blow up” Trump’s ballroom if Democrats are allowed to regain power– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Soros-backed democrat threatens to “blow up” Trump’s ballroom if Democrats are allowed to regain power– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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As we approach the midterm elections, a good reminder of who the enemy is is to listen to what they are willing to say out loud BEFORE they regain power. Like, and this is just an example off the top of my head, Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner threatening to blow up a portion of the White House. He’s a democrat, so before we accuse him of making a terrorist threat, we have to wait for “independent” “fact” “checkers” to determine what he meant by that.

You may remember Larry Krasner from such other viral clips as “ICE agents are Nazis,” “I’m gonna arrest ICE agents,” and “but looters are misunderstood.” I’m paraphrasing, but only barely.

Also, you may remember Philadelphia as being so overrun with drugs that Mexico used it in an anti-drug commercial. In Mexico. Where the drugs are coming from.

Drugs are fine. Crime is ok. But Trump ballroom is offensive.

I’m going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. You know what that paperweight is going to be? It’s going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up.” … In an official ceremony, we’re going to blow it up.

Inquest opens into death of ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday– abcnews.com

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Inquest opens into death of ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday– abcnews.com
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LONDON — An inquest opened Wednesday into the sudden death earlier this month of Jason Arday, a Cambridge University professor who faced a storm of plagiarism accusations.

Arday, 41, who became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 2023, was found dead at an address in south London on Aug. 13, days after he resigned his post as professor of sociology of education following intense media scrutiny of his credentials and many of the other claims he had made about his accomplishments outside of academia.

The inquest opened with a short hearing at London Inner South Coroner’s Court. Any deaths in the U.K. that are deemed to exhibit uncertainties of one form or another are investigated by a coroner.

“The various reports have given me reason to suspect that Professor Arday died an unnatural death 12 days ago,” said senior coroner Dr. Julian Morris. “It therefore follows that I must open an investigation.”

Police said at the time of his death that it was being treated as “unexpected” but not suspicious.

Questions about Arday’s qualifications were raised publicly last month by Nathan Cofnas, a one-time Cambridge philosophy researcher who left the university after his critique of diversity, equity and inclusion programs sparked widespread protests. Cofnas previously argued that in a meritocracy, Black people “would disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment.” Cofnas was last week suspended from his post at Ghent University in Belgium.

Falling Danube flow forces shutdown of Romania’s sole nuclear plant | Climate Crisis News– www.aljazeera.com

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Falling Danube flow forces shutdown of Romania’s sole nuclear plant | Climate Crisis News– www.aljazeera.com
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Romania had tried to avert a total shutdown of the plant, which usually generates a fifth of the country’s electricity.

Published On 13 Aug 2026

Romania has paused operations at its sole nuclear plant due to record-low water levels in the Danube River, which provides cooling water for its reactors.

The country’s national nuclear energy company, Nuclearelectrica, said on Thursday it would begin a controlled shutdown of the second reactor at the Cernavoda plant, after shutting down the facility’s other reactor last month.

Michigan Socialist El-Sayed Wants To ‘Tweak’ Second Amendment– thefederalist.com

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Michigan Socialist El-Sayed Wants To ‘Tweak’ Second Amendment– thefederalist.com
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Michigan Democrats’ newly anointed Senate candidate blamed gun rights and “right-wing media” for a 2023 mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school at the hands of a mentally disturbed woman pretending to be a man.

In a now-deleted podcast in April 2023, Abdul El-Sayed claimed that the school shooting wasn’t a “trans problem” but “a gun problem.”

“After this shooting in Tennessee, right-wing media wanted to talk about the identity of the shooter who happened to identify as trans,” El-Sayed said during his opening monologue on the podcast, according to a story first reported by the Post Millennial.

The far-left Senate candidate was referring to Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old trans-identifying psychopath who stormed into the Covenant School, a Christian elementary, on March 27, 2023 and fatally shot six people, including three third-graders. She was shot and killed by a responding police officer before she could take more innocent lives.

Hale left behind a “manifesto” — multiple journals, in fact— filled with extreme leftist ideology, deranged entries laboring on her apparent white guilt and an urge to “kill all the white kids,” as well as plans laying out her deadly errand.

Trump DOJ charges far-left SPLC ‘fascism expert’ with fraud for funding KKK– www.lifesitenews.com

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Trump DOJ charges far-left SPLC ‘fascism expert’ with fraud for funding KKK– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Department of Justice has formally charged Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “fascism expert” Heidi Beirich with making fraudulent payments to extremist groups with donor money as part of a broader probe into the far-left organization’s activities.

As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging SPLC with allegations that it used millions of dollars in donations to fund groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Aryan Nation in order to foment racist hatred and unrest as a means of keeping its purported mission of “dismantling” hate alive, largely through the payment of “field sources,” who were ostensibly informants but are accused of actually promoting the very behavior SPLC purports to monitor, all without letting donors know how their money was being used.

In June, the New York Post reported on a DOJ filing detailing how an individual identified only as “Employee-2” and described as someone “who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project” maintained a “romantic relationship” with an informant identified as F-9 who was embedded in the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. It determined Employee-2 was none other than Beirich, who had authored a 2015 article on the National Alliance that matched the indictment’s allegation that Employee-2 wrote such an article based on material stolen from the group’s headquarters the year before. A different informant was allegedly paid off to take the blame for the theft.

This week, CNN reported that Beirich has been arrested in California and indicted on allegations she “oversaw payments of donors’ money” to the hate groups. “I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” said U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the U.S. attorneys and the agents working the case will keep on working it even after the initial indictment.”

U.S. signals it can keep up naval blockade indefinitely, increase economic pressure on Iran– www.cbc.ca

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U.S. signals it can keep up naval blockade indefinitely, increase economic pressure on Iran– www.cbc.ca
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The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.

The United States on Thursday said it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely and would ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran as ceasefire talks have floundered, global ‌oil supply is dropping and regional tensions are rising.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters that the U.S. military could keep a naval presence in the region to enforce its blockade of Iran, which has inflicted severe economic damage on the country.

“Indefinitely, the United States Navy can maintain a blockade like that because we’ll rotate ships in and out, as we have, and we’ll continue to,” Hegseth ​told reporters on a trip to Panama.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ​Bessent said on Thursday that the United States planned to inflict more financial damage on Iran.

Shocker: Abdul El-Sayed’s Horrific ‘Dog Slaughterhouse’ – RedState– redstate.com

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Shocker: Abdul El-Sayed’s Horrific ‘Dog Slaughterhouse’ – RedState– redstate.com
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It’s safe to say that most Americans love dogs. The relationship between those lovable mutts and their people is like nothing else; there is no other domesticated animal that associates with us not by our choice, but theirs, the way dogs do. They are faithful companions, loyal helpers and guardians, and they love us without reservation. Whenever anyone proclaims “you can’t buy love,” it’s a safe bet they’ve never had a puppy.

In some cultures, though, our traditional love for Canis lupus familiaris isn’t shared. Which brings us to the current Democrat candidate for a Michigan Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, and his tenure as Detroit’s health director. During this stint, El-Sayed was responsible for, among other things, Detroit’s animal control department, and his handling of that department prompted an employee to describe it as a “dog slaughterhouse.”

El-Sayed’s campaign, of course, is touting a significant improvement in the shelter’s live-release rate.

Detroit Animal Care and Control’s (DACC) live-release rate was roughly 20% to 26% when El-Sayed inherited the operation in late 2015 but climbed to about 61% to 62% by late 2016 — an improvement his campaign points to in arguing that the raw number of animals euthanized during his tenure obscures a turnaround from the dire conditions and euthanasia rates he inherited. The Daily Mail reported that records covering the period surrounding El-Sayed’s tenure showed 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized, with 1,056 dogs and 29 cats getting euthanized in the first full calendar year DACC was under El-Sayed’s Health Department.

Parents Who Demanded Abortion Now Have Custody of Baby Gabriel After Surrogate Risked Everything to Save Him (VIDEOS)– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Parents Who Demanded Abortion Now Have Custody of Baby Gabriel After Surrogate Risked Everything to Save Him (VIDEOS)– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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The legal battle over Baby Gabriel took a dramatic turn this week when the California couple who repeatedly sought to abort him obtained physical custody of the newborn just hours after his birth in Texas, even as the surrogate who refused their demands continues fighting for parental rights.

Surrogate McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and mother of two, rejected the biological parents’ demands for an abortion after a 20-week diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital defect that requires multiple surgeries but is treatable.

West fled to Texas for legal protection and specialized care, giving birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, on Wednesday at a Dallas hospital.

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Bishop calls the devil ‘imaginary’ in assault on St. Michael devotion– www.lifesitenews.com

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Bishop calls the devil ‘imaginary’ in assault on St. Michael devotion– www.lifesitenews.com
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A Brazilian bishop has attacked consecration to St. Michael the Archangel while suggesting that the devil is “rather imaginary.”

“Are there theological justifications for Consecration to Saint Michael? Consecration is to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” wrote Bishop Vicente Ferreira on X last week. “Isn’t the devil we fight against rather imaginary?” he added.

“The greater exorcism should be: of homophobia, of femicide, of racism, of crimes against indigenous peoples. Of that legion of evils,” he concluded, in a statement originally written in Portuguese.

The tweet appears to be aimed at another Brazilian bishop. On the same day as Ferreira’s statement, the archbishop of Montes Claros, José Carlos Campos, consecrated his archdiocese to St Michael.

Ferreira was slammed for his denigration of devotion to St. Michael, who is invoked for spiritual defense against the devil by Catholics because he was given power by God to cast the devil and his followers from Heaven.

“What is your religion? You should convert to Catholicism,” wrote one X user. “At your age, worrying about these woke idiocies isn’t going to get you to heaven. You should be concerned with saving your soul.”

Nigel Farage Wins Clacton election — While a Quarter of Voters Chose a Bin (Trashcan) * The Gateway Pundit * by Peter McIlvenna– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Nigel Farage Wins Clacton election — While a Quarter of Voters Chose a Bin (Trashcan) * The Gateway Pundit * by Peter McIlvenna– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Nigel Farage won the Clacton by-election. 63 per cent of the vote, more than 22,000 ballots. On the face of it, another clear win for ReformUK. Then you look at second place.

Count Binface — the bloke who campaigns with a metal bin on his head — got 27 per cent and 9,455 votes. More than a quarter of the entire turnout. In a seat that prides itself on being anti-establishment, one in four people looked at the ballot paper and decided the man in the rubbish bin was the best option available.

That’s not a funny anecdote. That’s the story.

The main parties didn’t even bother turning up. No Labour, no Conservatives, no Lib Dems, no Greens. The whole thing became Farage versus a joke candidate, with a few independents and tiny parties making up the numbers. Laurence Fox’s Reclaim managed 347 votes and limped home sixth. The Social Democratic Party candidate got 256 and finished seventh. Under 700 votes between them. That’s not a protest vote. That’s people not noticing you exist.

White House Warns China and Dozens of Countries Are Stealing Billions with ‘Transshipment Scam’– slaynews.com

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White House Warns China and Dozens of Countries Are Stealing Billions with ‘Transshipment Scam’– slaynews.com
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The White House is warning that China and dozens of other countries are using third-party nations to disguise the origin of exports and evade U.S. tariffs, costing the Treasury billions of dollars each year.

A new 25-page report from the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy identifies more than 40 countries as posing a high risk for tariff-avoiding transshipment.

Those nations include China, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic.

The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” says the practice allows exporters to route goods through intermediary countries before they enter the United States under a different declared country of origin.

White House Says China Built Global Transshipment Network

The report identifies China as the clearest historical example of the practice.

Hungary unveils new ‘clean up’ plan as governemnt takes first steps to unlocking frozen EU funds– www.euronews.com

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Hungary unveils new ‘clean up’ plan as governemnt takes first steps to unlocking frozen EU funds– www.euronews.com
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The Hungarian Integrity Authority is setting up a register of economic operators excluded from public procurement after they were deemed to have committed criminal offences.

This measure, which is essential for the resumption of EU funding, is intended not only to weed out abuses but also to offer a chance for self-cleaning, according to the government.

Budapest argued on Thursday that those who can prove that they have “restored their trustworthiness” should have their names removed from the register.

The Hungarian Integrity Authority is also launching the first registration procedures and will begin keeping a list of economic operators excluded from public procurement.

The primary purpose of operating this publicly accessible database is to ensure that no economic operator can take part in public procurement procedures if its executive officer, member of the supervisory board, managing director or beneficial owner has been the subject to a final court decision for criminal offences as defined in the Public Procurement Act.

The authority stressed that the measure concerns a clearly defined group in legal terms; while making the information public was not about stigmatisation, but about preventing further abuses and ensuring the integrity of public procurement.

Trump slaps new tariffs on drones, including from some key U.S. allies – National– globalnews.ca

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Trump slaps new tariffs on drones, including from some key U.S. allies – National– globalnews.ca
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will impose tariffs on imports of drones and their components, including from some key U.S. allies, with the Trump administration saying the country was “too reliant” on foreign sources of drones.

A proclamation signed by Trump imposes a 100% ad valorem tariff on drones of a certain size or with certain capabilities that are particularly sensitive for national security purposes, the White House said, adding that a tariff of 25% will be imposed on drones that are smaller in size.

A 15% tariff will be imposed on drones and components from the European Union, Japan, Liechtenstein, South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan, and a 10% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on drones from the UK, the White House added.

Trump has made tariffs a central pillar of his foreign and trade policies despite legal setbacks and criticism from some analysts.

SpaceXAI Unveils Grok Bot To Work Like A Team Of AI Agents– www.ndtv.com

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SpaceXAI Unveils Grok Bot To Work Like A Team Of AI Agents– www.ndtv.com
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SpaceXAI is rolling out new artificial intelligence software that’s designed to act like a team of AI agents fielding assignments throughout the day, marking the latest bid by Elon Musk’s company to keep pace with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.

The new product, called Grok Bot, is designed to seamlessly handle a wide range of professional work. The tool can sign into various apps and websites, retain information from prior tasks and enable bots to share details and context with each other, the company said Tuesday.

The product is part of Musk’s broader push to catch up in the AI race after slipping behind in the fast-growing market for AI agents. SpaceXAI, as Musk’s AI outfit is now known, released its first coding agent in May to compete with Anthropic’s offerings, followed by the new Grok 4.5 built with Cursor.

SpaceX reached a $60 billion agreement in June to acquire Cursor, an AI coding startup. Cursor emerged as a key player in tech’s so-called vibe coding era, as demand surged for tools that can write and debug software programming.

Lawyers for Tyler Robinson Ask Judge to Take Death Penalty Off Table– legalinsurrection.com

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Lawyers for Tyler Robinson Ask Judge to Take Death Penalty Off Table– legalinsurrection.com
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Robinson’s defense has been stalling for months. It seems this is what they were really worried about.

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Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson asks judge to take potential death penalty off table

Lawyers for accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson are arguing that prosecutors haven’t established a case for the potential death penalty in a new court filing made public Tuesday night.

“The facts and the law require this Court to strike the sole aggravating factor,” defense attorneys Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, Richard Novak and Staci Visser wrote in a 41-page brief.

After a weeklong preliminary hearing in early July, Judge Tony Graf Jr. gave both sides in the case time to file briefs before he makes a decision on whether there is enough probable cause to send the case to trial — which he is expected to announce on Sept. 1.

Robinson, 23, is accused of shooting the 31-year-old Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, during a Turning Point USA event. Kirk had founded the group to promote conservatism on campuses around the country and was speaking in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 in the courtyard when he was struck and killed by a single bullet.

Robinson’s defense argued in Tuesday’s filing that prosecutors didn’t establish probable cause concerning the aggravating factor — that the shooting created a high probability of death to someone other than Kirk and that Robinson knew of that “high probability.”

Without the aggravator, the potential death penalty would be taken off the table.

“The State had over ten months to investigate the shooting death of Charlie Kirk and to develop legally sufficient evidence that Mr. Robinson ‘knowingly created a great risk of death to another other than Charlie Kirk and the defendant,’ the sole aggravator alleged in the Information which in theory exposes Mr. Robinson to the potential punishment of death,” Robinson’s attorneys wrote. “The State’s presentation of its evidence as to this alleged circumstance in aggravation at the preliminary hearing in July 2026 wholly fails to carry its burden of proof.”