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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. Prosecutors in Utah say they will be seeking the death penalty for the 22-year-old man being held in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, County Attorney Jeff Gray. I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made independently as county attorney based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime. Prosecutors unveiled seven charges filed against Tyler Robinson today. They include aggravated murder, a capital crime in Utah. Robinson had his first court appearance late today. He appeared virtually from a county jail where he will remain without bail. Charging documents show that a note was left under Robinson's keyboard, saying he planned to kill Kirk and that he'd been planning the killing for about a week. 27-year-old Luigi Mangione was also in court today. He's a man being held in New York for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December last year. The judge in his case today throughout two terrorism-related charges ruling there is no evidence that Mangione intended to intimidate the public. Manjone, however, remains charged with other criminal counts, including second-degree murder. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning anyone on the U.S. on a visa who cheered on the assassination of of Charlie Kirk that they can be deported. As Pierce, Michelle Callumann reports, he's posted on social media that visa revocations are underway. America will not host foreigners who celebrate the death of our fellow citizens. That's what Rubio wrote on X in the wake of the killing

of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But asked whether any visas have been revoked yet, Rubio told reporters as he was traveling from the Middle East to London that the process is only getting started. But I'm sure there'll be some that are removed. There's no shortage of idiots around the world that have decided it's a great idea to murder someone. We don't want people like that in our country. Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau says he has asked consular officials to follow up on all the tips he's receiving on social media. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department. Eli Lilly is working on a new obesity drug, but instead of an injection, it's a pill. New study data offers a glimpse of how well it works. Here's NPR's Sidney Lubkin reporting.

Patients taking the highest dose of Eli Lilly's experimental obesity pill lost an average of 11.2% of their body weight. That's according to a new study of more than 3,000 patients with obesity taking Orphaglipron for almost a year and a half. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine Tuesday. Funded by Eli Lilly, the study also suggested the drug had similar adverse events to other obesity drugs on the market. Eli Lilly announced results of a related study in August. The company's stock tumbled when the drug resulted in less weight loss compared with Novo Nordisk's Wagovi injection. Sidney Lupkin and PR News. This is NPR.

Tributes are being paid to legendary actor Robert Redford. Redford died today at age 89. His publicist says he died at his home in the mountains of Utah but did not immediately provide a cause of death. Actor Coleman Domingo says Redford had an everlasting impact on movies and director Ron Howard called Redford. Sundance Film Festival, a game changer. President Trump is overseas in the United Kingdom. He arrived there this evening for a state visit. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are staying the night at the U.S. Ambassador's home. The two-day visit officially gets underway tomorrow when Trump will be greeted by King Charles at Windsor Castle. Today is 9, 16, 25, and it's special because each

number is a perfect square. Three squared is 9, 4 squared is 16, and 5 squared is 25, but that's not all, according to reporter Ari Daniel. It turns out that three, four, and five are a Pythagorean triple. That is, if you sum the squares of the first two, nine plus 16, you get the square of the last one, 25. Sound familiar? It's the Pythagorean theorem. A squared plus B squared equals C squared, and there are no other dates this century like this, so most of us will experience it just once. Terence Blackman chairs the math department at Medgar Evers College. This date reveals some kind of hidden mathematical poetry that is sitting there, just like walking and coming upon a beautiful flower.

Blackman says the Pythagorean theorem is useful as well to carpenters and architects and occasionally reporters. For NPR news, I'm R.A. Daniel. And I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees. Join millions of customers and visit Wise.com. T's and C's Apply.