Shooter's Confession?, RIP Robert Redford & Fyre Festival Sold - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The news to know for Wednesday, September 17, 2025!
We're talking about new court documents that shed light on a confession and possible motive in the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation.
Also, more manufacturing expanding in the U.S., and President Trump's historic state visit to the U.K.
Plus: we'll bring you tributes for a Hollywood icon, how ChatGPT is trying to become safer for teens, and what LimeWire wants with the Fyre Festival.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, September 17th. We're talking about new court documents that shed light on a |
| 0:05.0 | confession and a possible motive in the Charlie Kirk shooting investigation. Also, more manufacturing |
| 0:10.3 | expanding in the U.S. and President Trump's historic state visit to the U.K. Plus, we'll bring you |
| 0:15.8 | tributes for a Hollywood icon, how ChatGPT is trying to become safer for teens, and what LimeWire wants |
| 0:22.2 | with the Fire Festival. Those stories and even more news coming up. Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, |
| 0:30.1 | all the day's news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so |
| 0:36.4 | much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:42.5 | The person accused of killing prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is now formally charged |
| 0:47.8 | with murder, and prosecutors in Utah say they're seeking the death penalty. Court documents filed |
| 0:53.0 | along with the charges shed more |
| 0:54.5 | light on a possible motive. Investigators uncovered text messages. The suspect apparently sent his |
| 0:59.5 | romantic partner after the shooting, saying he killed Kirk because he, quote, had enough of his |
| 1:03.9 | hatred. A key break in the case apparently came from the suspect's mother, who recognized his |
| 1:08.7 | photo on the news when police were still searching for him. |
| 1:11.5 | The court docs say his parents then persuaded their son to turn himself in. |
| 1:15.9 | Since then, they told police their son had moved to the left politically over the last year, |
| 1:20.0 | specifically on gay and transgender rights. |
| 1:22.5 | The suspect made his first court appearance yesterday, wearing a suicide prevention smock. |
| 1:26.8 | He only spoke once when asked to state |
| 1:28.4 | his name. His next court hearing is set for later this month. FBI director Cash Patel was the |
| 1:36.5 | subject of a heated hearing on Capitol Hill this week. He and Democratic senators got into shouting |
| 1:41.3 | matches about a few different issues like the investigation into |
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