The man was arrested and released on bond. The incident heightened security concerns ahead of the event, which is expected to draw more than 100,000 people on Sunday.
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk, was a stellar student in high school, raised in a Republican home in Southwest Utah and training to be an electrician.
Millions of people saw the brief exchange between the right-wing political activist and a liberal TikToker after footage of the assassination spread like wildfire across social media.
Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah has called for politicians to tone down their rhetoric. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is testing the limits of that high-minded approach.
Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah at a news conference at Utah Valley University after Charlie Kirk, CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed on campus on Wednesday.
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