The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk. A Utah judge on Friday denied Tyler Robinson’s request to strip capital punishment from the case, keeping the most serious possible penalty in play. Robinson is accused of killing the conservative activist on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University. He is charged with aggravated murder, and prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if he is convicted. BREAKING: Utah judge denies Tyler Robinson request to remove death penalty from Charlie Kirk murder case pic.twitter.com/z3Mvb99mE3 — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 26, 2026 Robinson’s defense tried to turn a prosecutor’s media mistake into a death-penalty escape hatch. The defense argument was simple: one prosecutor broke the court’s rules about pretrial publicity, so the court should punish that violation by taking death off the table entirely. Judge Tony Graf did punish the violation. He did not hand Robinson the remedy his lawyers wanted. Courthouse News laid out the core of the ruling from the Utah courtroom: Robinson’s attorneys asked Graf to remove the death penalty because of public statements made by a prosecutor, but Graf declined to grant that sanction. The report frames the decision as a split result for the defense, with the court recognizing improper conduct by the prosecution while still keeping the case in the capital lane under Utah law. That matters because the defense was not asking for a minor correction. It was asking the judge to remove the harshest punishment available in a case involving the public killing of one of the most recognizable conservative activists in America. Graf refused to make that jump. The prosecutor still drew a consequence. Graf held Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard in civil contempt for violating the court’s pretrial publicity order. The contempt finding centered on Ballard’s public comments to media outlets about ballistics evidence and the strength of the prosecution’s case. BREAKING: A Utah judge just found one of the county prosecutors in the Tyler Robinson case in contempt for violating the court's pre-trial publicity order. This comes as the judge also denies Robinson's request to remove the death penalty from the Charlie Kirk murder case.… pic.twitter.com/xYMQZ5hx92 — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 26, 2026 So the ruling split two ways. The prosecutor’s conduct was rebuked. The accused did not get to ride that rebuke out of a capital case. The Associated Press reported that Graf called the defense’s requested sanction disproportionate to the violation. According to the AP account, the judge said any concern about jury bias can be handled through jury screening and questioning rather than by gutting the punishment prosecutors may seek before trial in a capital case. AP also supplied important case posture. Robinson has not yet entered a plea, and Friday’s decision was about enforcing a publicity order rather than deciding the merits of the criminal charge. The same report noted that authorities have said DNA consistent with Robinson’s was found on the trigger of the rifle, the fired cartridge casing, two unfired cartridges, and a towel used to wrap the rifle. That is why this cannot be reduced to a paperwork dispute. A prosecutor talking too much before trial is a real problem for the court to police. But the underlying allegation remains the killing of Charlie Kirk in front of a public crowd on a college campus. A prior Associated Press report explains how the fight reached Friday’s ruling. Defense attorneys sought to block the death penalty after media comments tied to a bullet-fragment issue, while prosecutors said they were trying to correct misinformation that had spilled into conspiracy claims surrounding the evidence. That earlier context also pointed to the next major step in the case: a preliminary hearing where prosecutors must show enough evidence to move the case toward trial. It showed the defense using that evidence dispute to seek the largest possible sanction before trial. That keeps the punishment fight tied to the larger evidence timeline, not a side fight over media appearances. In other words, Friday’s ruling did not end the case. It kept the court focused on the evidence, the jury process, and the charges rather than letting a pretrial publicity fight decide the possible punishment before trial. CBS News corroborated the same outcome, emphasizing both halves of the ruling: the prosecutor was held in contempt over public comments, and the judge still refused to remove the death penalty. That confirmation cuts through the noise around the hearing. The practical effect is clear: the contempt finding remains separate from the prosecution’s ability to seek capital punishment if the state proves its case. That is the operational result readers need to understand from the hearing. The defense won a rebuke against the prosecutor, but it did not win the much larger prize it wanted in a ruling that preserved the capital notice at this stage. Charlie Kirk was gunned down in front of a crowd at a public university. A man is accused of pulling the trigger, and the court just kept the full weight of the law available to the people prosecuting that crime. A prosecutor got a rebuke for talking too much. The accused got no discount on accountability. That is the right order of things. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Death Penalty Stays On The Table For Charlie Kirk’s Accused Killer appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s administration just took a hard look at who was actually enrolled in Obamacare, and the numbers are ugly. According to a new report, nearly 3 million people have already been kicked off the Affordable Care Act rolls as fraudulent enrollees. And the cleanup is far from over. Fox News Digital reported on June 26, 2026 that the Trump administration’s HHS uncovered millions of alleged fraudsters on the ACA marketplace rolls, with an estimated $10 billion in Obamacare fraud tied to the mess. Fox reported that nearly 3 million fraudulent enrollees have already been removed, with another 2.6 million flagged as still left to go under the current review. The report estimated that improper, phantom, and fraudulent enrollment peaked at 5.6 million people in 2025, before the current verification push began clearing the rolls. Of the 2.6 million improper or phantom enrollments still on the books, Fox reported that more than 1 million had no Social Security number attached at all. Read that again. More than a million enrollments without a Social Security number. Here is the part that should make every taxpayer sit up. Fox reported that the anti-fraud review came after Obamacare enrollment exploded during the Biden years, jumping from about 10 million at the start of Biden’s term to a 22 million peak in 2024. That is a massive jump in a few short years. Now the Trump administration is saying a large share of that surge was never legitimate to begin with. The official message from health leadership has been blunt about it. BIG NEWS: The Trump Administration is engaging in the largest health care fraud crackdown in American history. pic.twitter.com/d3Glas8ukw — HHS Rapid Response (@HHSResponse) June 25, 2026 So how did the administration find the fraud? By turning the verification controls back on. Fox reported that the Trump team restored income verification, ended certain special enrollment opportunities, checked for duplicate Medicaid enrollment, and investigated phantom enrollments tied to scamming brokers. The official policy backbone comes from CMS. CMS finalized a Marketplace Integrity and Affordability rule aimed at stopping improper enrollments and unauthorized changes to people’s coverage. The agency said the rule strengthened income verification, eligibility redetermination, and pre-enrollment checks for special enrollment periods. It also tightened broker and web-broker accountability, the same lane tied to the phantom-enrollment problem. CMS pointed directly at the COVID-era expanded premium subsidies, saying those temporary, fully subsidized plans may have created the conditions that bad actors exploited to grab coverage they did not qualify for. The agency said some of these measures are temporary fixes aimed at tamping down improper enrollments and the improper flow of federal dollars. In a related release, CMS said American taxpayers deserve to know their dollars go only to people who actually qualify, and Dr. Mehmet Oz tied the rule to cracking down on abuse. That theme has carried through the broader fraud push. 455 fraudsters DETAINED. $6.5 BILLION in false claims. $127 MILLION assets seized by our @WHFraudTF partners. No longer will champagne and private jets be paid for by the American taxpayer. The War on Fraud continues. pic.twitter.com/4CiWuIs0ym — DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) June 25, 2026 Independent analysts have been warning about this for a while. The Paragon Institute estimated in June 2026 that roughly 6.2 million exchange enrollees in 2026 were improperly enrolled, about 27% of total exchange enrollment. Paragon put the potential taxpayer cost as high as $25 billion, and said the pattern spans multiple years. The group previously estimated 5.0 million improper enrollees in 2024 and 6.5 million in 2025. Paragon connected the problem to fully subsidized plans, broker incentives, weak verification, and phantom enrollees who exist mostly on paper. Its analysis argues that the structure rewards enrollment volume while placing less pressure on proving the enrollment is real. The reason this hits taxpayers so hard is how the money moves. Paragon noted that ACA exchange subsidies are advanced directly to insurers, so when excessive subsidies are paid out, taxpayers may never recover the full overpayment. In plain English, the cash goes out the door first and the questions come later. The administration is framing all of this as a win for people who pay the bills. WINNING The days of ignoring fraud and wasting taxpayer money are over. @VP’s Fraud Task Force is ahead of the game and preventing money from ever getting in the hands of fraudsters. https://t.co/3AQXwKW825 — White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (@WHFraudTF) June 26, 2026 Strip away the policy jargon and the story is simple. A program doubled in size while the basic guardrails were switched off, and now that they have been switched back on, millions of enrollments cannot survive a verification check. Nearly 3 million already gone, another 2.6 million flagged, and over a million of those with no Social Security number to their name. This is what happens when somebody finally checks the receipts. The Trump administration is checking them, and the taxpayers footing the bill are the ones who win when the phantom names come off the rolls. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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As millions of Americans come to terms with the fact that the loans they signed for as college freshmen now have to be paid back, many parents and college applicants are reconsidering whether they should borrow at all, and if so, how much.  And as part of his effort to address the free-flowing cash that led to the current student loan debt crisis, President Donald Trump pushed for caps on the amount that students can borrow in certain situations. It’s not unlike the limits that every other consumer has based on his or her circumstances, but leftists are nevertheless up in arms about any limitations. CNBC reported on what one judge did to stymie the White House: U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington froze, for now, some of the federal student loan caps established by the U.S. Department of Education. The department was implementing the limits set in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, the “one big beautiful bill act.” Under the new regulations, previously set to begin on July 1, most graduate students are subject to a $20,500 a year borrowing cap, while so-called professional students can take out up to $50,000 annually. Previously, graduate students were able to borrow as much as their program cost to attend.  The order, issued late on Wednesday, stays the Education Department’s definition of a “professional degree.” The Trump administration had identified 11 degrees, including medicine, dentistry and theology, that fit under that label.  The Education Department is “reviewing the order and will take appropriate action,” said Ellen Keast, press secretary for higher education at the agency. The latest decision attempting to strike down a Trump proposal drew some attention on social media: Federal judges are now in charge of how many people get help with professional degrees? — Cicero's second cousin (@AndrewHath5) June 26, 2026 Deport libtard activist judges. — Jimmy Pyramid II (@MNovanglia67674) June 26, 2026 Judge has zero authority to do this — Hoopdedoo (@Hoopdedoocb1t) June 25, 2026 The Hill provided some additional coverage:  In the combined suits, Howell backed the joint plaintiffs’ assertion that the rule would irreparably harm impacted students.  “Plaintiffs in both suits have established that they are likely to succeed on their APA claim that the Rule’s definition of ‘professional degree’ is contrary to law, that they would suffer irreparable harm should the Rule go into effect, and that the balance of equities and the public interest are in their favor,” wrote Howell, an appointee of former President Obama, in a 52-page ruling. Officials from the PAEA and the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) praised Howell’s ruling as “an important step forward” for impacted students. “By granting preliminary relief, the Court recognized that the harm caused by this rule is too significant to ignore and that PA students should not be forced to suffer its consequences while the case is being decided,” the groups noted in a joint statement.  Here’s what one of the measure’s supporters had to say about it: Unlimited federal student loans has fueled skyrocketing debt and allowed colleges to raise prices. Republicans put a cap on unlimited grad loans, tackling the root cause of skyrocketing debt and tuition. Results have come quick. Universities are LOWERING tuition. pic.twitter.com/Ovd3bFkciv — U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) June 26, 2026 What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Student Loan Borrowing Limits appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

A small aircraft flew into the tallest skyscraper in Beijing on Friday. “A small plane crashes into a 109-story skyscraper in Beijing, sending debris down the building’s side,” Breaking Aviation News & Videos wrote. “Local reports say the pilot Liu Junhua was conducting a solo flight in the local airspace, took off from Shifosi Airport at 17:30, and at 17:40 prepared to return for landing. While joining the westbound route for Runway 18, the aircraft did not join the approach, deviated from the local airspace and continued flying on a constant heading of 270 degrees,” it continued. Watch the footage: A small plane crashes into a 109-story skyscraper in Beijing, sending debris down the building's side. Local reports say the pilot Liu Junhua was conducting a solo flight in the local airspace, took off from Shifosi Airport at 17:30, and at 17:40 prepared to return for landing.… pic.twitter.com/drmOgMvQ9E — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) June 26, 2026 Photos below: pic.twitter.com/pVGi1ts5L5 — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) June 26, 2026 More from The New York Times: The building is in the capital’s busy central business district, which was clogged with cars at evening rush hour. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured, if any were. The whereabouts and identity of the pilot were also unknown. Photos posted to social media from the site showed parts of an aircraft that appeared to be a lightweight model with only a few seats, registered to the airline Shuangyue General Aviation, a regional flight training provider. Calls to the company went unanswered. Data from FlightRadar, a flight tracking website, showed that the plane took off from an airfield in Beijing’s eastern Pinggu district. The plane circled the area before flying west into the city center. It was unclear if the crash was an accident or intentional. It was also unclear how the pilot was able to fly into the city center apparently unobstructed. Calls to the Civil Aviation Authority of China and a nearby police station in Beijing rang unanswered. “This aircraft is normally used for pilot training east of Beijing,” said Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for FlightRadar. He said that this flight was “out of character” with those types of flights, adding: “I don’t think we can rule anything out at this point.” CBS Evening News provided additional coverage: A small plane smashed into the side of the tallest building in Beijing. Injuries are unclear and Chinese officials are investigating. pic.twitter.com/QkwaVJ5yOO — CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) June 26, 2026 A CNN journalist witnessed people evacuating the building and gathering on the streets. There was a heavy police presence near the skyscraper Friday evening. A small aircraft crashed into Beijing's tallest skyscraper before falling down in front of the building, according to eyewitnesses who spoke with Reuters and the Associated Press. Read more: https://t.co/pcJd0kTf8c pic.twitter.com/XIpzwtT0F4 — ABC News (@ABC) June 26, 2026 CNN shared further: Since May 1, the Chinese capital has been effectively drone-free under sweeping new rules. Residents are not allowed to buy, rent or fly drones without government approval within the city’s sprawling jurisdiction. So, even just the unusual presence of an aircraft in this area made this incident alarming for one resident, Anna, who spoke to CNN near the scene. “I heard a lot of policy and rules and laws about ‘Don’t use any aircraft in Beijing,’” she said. “So I’m actually scared about it, because this is central business district, how could they allow a flight in the air for 20 minutes to get into this district.” “We all can see it’s just a very, very small plane, and it’s also after work time, so probably I don’t think there will be a huge aftermath, but it’s still scary.” The post Tallest Skyscraper In Beijing Hit By Small Aircraft appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that he was temporarily separated from his children after being effectively ‘swatted’ due to an anonymous caller reporting false accusations to Child Protective Services (CPS). “Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened,” Buttigieg wrote in a Substack post titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family.” Pete Buttigieg says his family was effectively swatted — except, instead of calling the cops, someone called Child Protective Services, lied and said Buttigieg had admitted to 'committing unspeakably violent crimes' and that his kids were at risk. The kids are not and were not… — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 26, 2026 Buttigieg wrote on Substack: You’ve probably heard of “swatting.” It’s a cruel and dangerous kind of hoax that has started happening more frequently in recent years. Someone anonymously calls 911 with a false report of imminent danger, such as a hostage situation, at the home of a public figure. Law enforcement swarms the house, guns drawn, terrifying the unsuspecting homeowner and family and sometimes even leading to deaths or injuries in the confusion. It’s happened to dozens of lawmakers, judges, celebrities, and others. (When I was in the Cabinet, someone attempted to do this to our home, but fortunately the hoax was quickly detected.) It’s become enough of a problem that the FBI now has a dedicated database to track such incidents. Now imagine the same concept, but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team. Hadn’t thought of that? Me neither, until a few days ago when a police officer and a CPS worker showed up at our home and politely asked to speak with me. I showed them in, invited them on the deck so that we could hear each other over the barking dog, and asked what was going on. They explained that there had been an allegation against me, that it concerned our four-year-old twins, and that a forensic interview had been arranged for the children the following day. I could not be present at the children’s interview, nor could any family member sit in. Afterwards, they would come back and interview me. And only then would they tell me anything about the nature of the allegation. I was bewildered and troubled, but tried to stay calm. I’m used to any number of falsehoods, attacks, and serious problems being thrown my way. What I didn’t understand was what could have led to this kind of visit. Then, the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day. They asked if I had relatives nearby or could perhaps stay at a hotel for the night. The officer and the CPS worker wanted to see the children. I invited them to stay until Chasten, who was out running errands and preparing to pick the twins up from summer camp for the day, returned home. When he pulled up in the family car, the kids bounded into the house, looking curiously at the two guests. They were courteous and professional, inviting the kids to inspect the officer’s police car, which fascinated them of course, while the grownups talked in the driveway. We agreed that the kids would stay at their grandparents’ house after our family dinner that night. And then they left. “To be clear, making a false report of this kind is a crime. That’s as it should be, both to protect the innocent from false accusations, and to preserve the integrity of a process designed to protect children from harm,” Buttigieg wrote. “I don’t know how much we can do about it, but so help me God, if there is any way to press civil or criminal charges over this, we will. Not just for our own sakes but to draw a line that I thought everyone already recognized: do not mess with someone’s kids,” he added. “This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious,” Buttigieg wrote on X. “Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal,” he added. This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) June 26, 2026 “Then, for the first time, the officer explained what the allegation actually was. An anonymous caller had contacted CPS. The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk,” Buttigieg wrote in his post. “That was all. The officer had a couple of obvious questions. He asked if I had been to the town where the woman claimed she had met me. I have not. Then the officer made clear that he believed this was politically motivated, and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor. Nothing in the forensic interview with the children, which was conducted by trained personnel, had led to concerns,” he continued. The Hill shared further: Michigan State Police told The Associated Press in a statement that they received an “anonymous report” and that their officers and CPS “responded and determined the report was false.” The Hill has reached out to Michigan State Police about the incident. “Many times over the years, I have been denounced, yelled at, protested, threatened, and heckled,” Buttigieg wrote. “I’ve been through political attacks in office, death threats in public life, and rocket attacks in war. But this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began.” Buttigieg, who is gay and married to a man, noted the timing of the threat shortly after Father’s Day and during Pride Month. “We’re used to nasty, hateful, and sometimes violent things being said about us and even about our family,” he wrote. “But this is the first time someone managed to invade our lives like this – and drag our children into it.” More broadly, the former secretary pointed to an increased incidence in reports of political violence and threats in recent years. An April report from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs found a “serious escalation” in the risk environment for political violence in 2025. Additionally, U.S. Capitol Police said earlier this year that the number of threats the agency investigated jumped by nearly 60 percent in 2025. 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