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Support for NPR and the following message come from the Kauffman Foundation, providing access to opportunities that help people achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity, regardless of race, gender, or geography. Coffman.org Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The 22-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is being held without bail in Utah, and as Steve Futterman reports, Kirk's widow made her first public comments hours after escorting his body home to Arizona from Utah.

Erica Kirk blamed what she called evil-doers for the death of her husband. The movement my husband built will not die. It won't. I refuse to let that happen. Since Tuesday's killing, there have been vitriolic debates in public and on social media between supporters and opponents of Charlie Kirk. The governor of Utah Spencer Cox Friday urged people to take a break from social media. The tone he said must calm down.

moment. Do we escalate or do we find an off ramp? It's a choice. Investigators are still trying to determine if some specific thing triggered Tyler Robinson. He will be formally charged next week. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Orem, Utah. Some Baltimore residents are feeling uneasy tonight, as Maryland Governor West Moore says he'll send state police into the city to patrol high-risk areas. The move comes after President Trump threatened to send National Guard troops into the city. Scott Masseone from Member Station, WIPR, has more on our story. Baltimore is experiencing record low crime levels and is on track for the lowest homicide rate in half a century. However, residents will soon see state police patrolling streets and possible

checkpoints set up in neighborhoods. Here's Donald Gresham, a community leader. You feel like you're on a plantation. That's what you're going to feel like, because you walk around, don't know when they're going to pull you up. They say they're there to protect us, but they never have been there to protect us. In the community, it's going to be a place where they're going to really feel like it's not home. Some residents fear the focus will be on unnecessary arrests rather than directing resources toward health care and education. For NPR News, I'm Scott Masseoni in Baltimore.

A far-right protest turned violent in London today. Vicki Barker has this report from the British Capitol. Chanting anti-immigrant slogans and waving flags, though marchers, more than 100,000 police estimate, filled the streets of central London. And they heard the anti-immigrant anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson tell them to savor the moment to feel their strength. You are part of a tidal wave of patriotism.

they're sweeping across this country. Britain, he said, has finally awoken. A few thousand counter demonstrators from the group Stand Up to Racism held their rally a few hundred yards away. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. And you're listening to NPR News. Paramount has issued a statement criticizing a letter signed earlier this week by more than four thousand.

of Hollywood actors and filmmakers pledging to boycott Israeli film groups. As NPR's Chloe Veltman reports, Paramount is the first major studio to condemn this response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Paramount's statement issued on Friday said it disagreed with the call to boycott Israeli filmmakers. Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace, the statement said. Well-known actors and directors such as Emma Stone, Gail Garcia Bernal and Eva DuVernay have signed the letter, which went live online on Tuesday. In a response on Instagram to Paramount's criticism, their group issued a statement, reiterating that the pledge does not ask people to avoid working with individual members of the Israeli film community,

but rather Israeli film institutions involved in, quote, whitewashing or justifying Israel's genocide in Gaza. Chloe Valtman, NPR News. Number 6, Georgia had a scare tonight and needed overtime to beat Tennessee, 44 to 41. Tennessee's Max Gilbert missed a field goal as time ran out in regulation play that would have won the game. Aden Burr, meanwhile, made a 55-yard field goal as time expired, as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets upset No. 12 Clemson by a score of 24 to 21. Number two, Penn State, meanwhile, beat Villanova 52 to 6. Oregon beat Northwestern 34 to 14, and Marist beat Wagner 21 to 10.

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