The haze is likely to ease in the East this weekend but linger in the Upper Midwest, where some cities recorded extremely high pollution indexes on Thursday.
Our reporter Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs is in Toledo, Ohio, where the air quality level resulting from Canadian wildfire smoke is among the most hazardous in the United States.
A weeklong hearing disclosed new details about Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the ensuing investigation. A judge will decide later this year if Tyler Robinson, 23, will stand trial for the killing.
Tyler Robinson came home on the day of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and anxiously paced the floor, Lance Twiggs told investigators in an interview that was played in court.
Tyler Robinson, center, sitting with his defense lawyers during a preliminary hearing at court in Provo, Utah, on Thursday. As his former partner’s interview was played, Mr. Robinson had no visible reaction.
A lawyer for Charlie Kirk’s family said disclosure would help quell conspiracy theories, but the judge ruled that not all evidence would be shown in the courtroom or on a livestream.
A judge said he would allow prosecutors to play the recording at a hearing on Thursday as prosecutors seek to take Tyler Robinson to trial on a charge that he murdered Charlie Kirk last year.
In a hearing, prosecutors used videos to trace the steps of the man they accuse of assassinating Mr. Kirk, while defense lawyers tried to poke holes in DNA evidence.
Sgt. David Hull, a Utah law enforcement officer who was one of the lead investigators into Charlie Kirk’s killing, during a hearing in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday.
On Day 1 of what is expected to be a weeklong hearing, prosecutors played videos of the shooting for a judge, but they were graphic and kept from public view. Erika Kirk and Donald Trump Jr. were in court.
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