It’s been over a week since Charlie Kirk was struck down in Utah. The shock of all of it remains, along with the candlelight vigils standing as a testimony to his grand memory. Tributes keep pouring in. A formal memorial is scheduled for Sunday in Phoenix.

But the painful aftermath has only just begun.

Tyler Robinson, the suspected assassin of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, is expected to make his first appearance in court Tuesday.

The 22 year-old turned himself into authorities after an intense manhunt. Officials announced plans to charge him with aggravated murder and pursue the death penalty.

At Tuesday’s news conference, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray shared that it was Charlie Kirk’s politics that fueled Robinson’s evil. According to Robinson’s mother, the assassin “had become more political … more pro-gay and trans rights oriented.”

Tyler Robinson was living with a sexually confused man who had expressed desire to identify as a woman.

As reports began trickling out about Robinson’s arrest last week, we learned that it was his parents who helped orchestrate the surrender.

After the FBI released images of the suspect in question, information reached Matt and Amber Robinson, Tyler’s father and mother. Amber thought the photo looked like her son. Matt Robinson, who runs a custom kitchen counter business in southern Utah, agreed.

A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to stop sending taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled the Trump administration can begin enforcing the provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) which defunds the abortion industry of federal Medicaid money (Defund provision).

The provision, which prohibits Medicaid dollars from going to entities that provide abortions, and lasts for one year, was set to cost Planned Parenthood roughly $800 million.

The unanimous decision by the three-judge panel stays a preliminary injunction issued by federal district Judge Indira Talwani that had blocked the Defund provision from taking effect while a lawsuit, filed by Planned Parenthood, plays out.

The judge was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by former President Barack Obama. Congress enacted the OBBBA in July, and President Trump signed it into law on July 4.

Just three days later, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit arguing the Defund provision was an unconstitutional “bill of attainder.”

A bill of attainder is a legislative provision that punishes a party perceived of a crime without due process. Such legislative actions are prohibited under Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution.

Within hours, Judge Talwani sided with Planned Parenthood issuing an injunction.

Note: This article is part two of a two-part case study on the dangers AI chatbots pose to young people. Part one covered the deceptive, pseudo-human design of ChatGPT. This part will explore AI companies’ incentive to prioritize profits over safety.

Warning: The following contains descriptions of self-harm and suicide. Please guard your hearts and read with caution.

Sixteen-year-old Adam Raine took his own life in April after developing an unhealthy relationship with ChatGPT. His parents blame the chatbot’s parent company, OpenAI.

Matt and Maria Raine filed a sweeping wrongful death suit against OpenAI; its CEO, Sam Altman; and all employees and investors involved in the “design, development and deployment” of ChatGPT, version 4o, in California Superior Court on August 26.

The suit alleges OpenAI released ChatGPT-4o prematurely, without adequate safety testing or usage warnings. These intentional business decisions, the Raines say, cost Adam his life.

OpenAI started in 2015 as a nonprofit with a grand goal — to create prosocial artificial intelligence.

The company’s posture shifted in 2019 when it opened a for-profit arm to accept a multi-billion-dollar investment from Microsoft.

Since then, the Raines allege, safety at OpenAI has repeatedly taken a back seat to winning the AI race.

Since Donald Trump’s first electoral win as president in 2016 to the 2020 campaign and his return to the Oval Office in 2024, the 45th and 47th chief executive has enjoyed the overwhelming support of evangelical Christians.

In each of those three elections, approximately eight in ten have cast a vote for Trump, an extraordinary level of loyalty across eight years and three Novembers.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Trump administration has prioritized pursuing issues and concerns of interest to people who appeal and trust in God. Earlier this month, the White House Faith Office released a list of the “Top 100 Victories for People of Faith.”

In the prologue to the document, we read, “President Trump has protected religious liberty and affirmed faith in America … He is the most pro-faith and pro-religious liberty president in American history.”

Whether America is a Christian nation or nation of Christians has long been the subject of debate. But at our country’s founding in 1776, few doubted Christ’s oversized influence in its formation.

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity,” wrote John Adams. “I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

Claims that President Trump has been trying to transform America into a theocracy belie reality and ignore a fundamental fact.