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The 22-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is being held without bail in Utah.

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 evildoers 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.

This is our 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 Fetterman in Orm, Utah.

A federal immigration agent fatale shot a man in a suburb outside of Chicago after he allegedly attempted to flee a traffic stop, then apparently struck an officer with his car.

Adriana Cardona Maguigan of member station WBEZ reports.

DHS officials say Silverio Villegas Gonzalez refused to follow commands and tried to flee, allegedly hitting and dragging one immigration officer with his car.

The officer fired his weapon, fearing for his life, the statement says.

Herendira Rendon is with the Resurrection Project, a local immigrant rights organization.

These are outcomes that serve no public safety purpose and leave entire communities traumatized.

According to federal law, ICE agents must have reasonable suspicion that an individual has violated an immigration law to initiate a traffic stop.

For NPR News, I'm Adriana Cardinal-Magigad in Chicago.

France, Germany, and Denmark plan to send troops and fighter jets to help defend Poland after nearly 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace and were shot down earlier in the week.

Other NATO allies are expected to announce more military buildup in the region.

Here's NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta speaking to reporters at an emergency session yesterday describing Russia's aggression.

It was reckless, it was unacceptable.

These are Russian drones and it is extremely serious what happened last Wednesday.

So obviously,

we would not be sitting here like this if then NATO would not immediately come into action and defend every inch of territory.

This allied territory.

This is exactly what we have done.

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander noted that the buildup of defenses will take some time before NATO defenses are on the eastern flank.

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Paramount is rejecting a pledge circulated five days ago and signed by thousands of directors and actors to boycott Israeli film institutions that they say are, quote, complicit in the abuse of Palestinians by Israel.

It is the first major studio to address the latest boycott intended to stop what the United Nations has repeatedly said is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Paramount said silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.

But Film Workers for Palestine, the group that organized the pledge, said it has a profound moral duty to stand for justice, writing, we must speak out now against the harm done to Palestinian people.

Stocks jumped this week in anticipation of lower interest rates, and Pierce Scott Horsley reports all the major stock indexes spent time in record territory.

The government's latest cost of living report shows the highest annual inflation in seven months, as double-digit tariffs triggered higher prices for imported goods like coffee, clothing, and small appliances.

But concerns about stubborn inflation are taking a back seat for now to worries about the sagging job market.

Hiring has slowed sharply in recent months, and new claims for unemployment benefits point to a possible uptick in layoffs.

Investors are betting the Federal Reserve will try to prop up the job market by lowering interest rates next week.

That sparked a rally on Wall Street, where the Dow climbed nearly 1%, the SP 500 index jumped 1.6%, and the NASDAQ soared more than 2%.

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