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Charlie Kirk killing: key Utah prosecutor denies conflict of interest | Charlie Kirk shooting
A Utah prosecutor involved in the case against Tyler Robinson, the alleged killer of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, denied allegations of a conflict of interest in the case during a hearing on Tuesday.
Robinson’s attorneys have argued that a judge should disqualify local prosecutors because the adult daughter of Chad Grunander, a deputy county attorney, was in attendance at the rally on a Utah college campus where Kirk was shot dead. The defense alleges that the office’s move to seek the death penalty just days after Kirk’s killing indicated a “strong emotional reaction” from Grunander, and suggested a conflict of interest.
Grunander and his daughter testified before Judge Tony Graf in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday. Grunander told the court his daughter’s presence did not play a role in his office’s decision to seek the death penalty, and prosecutors opted to do so because they felt they had sufficient evidence against Robinson.
The county attorney Jeffrey Gray testified on Tuesday that he had considered seeking the death penalty before authorities arrested Robinson, and said he had announced his intention to do so early because the case had already attracted significant attention from the public.
The testimony came as the defense and prosecution seek to hash out procedural issues in the case ahead of the trial, including whether graphic videos of the killing should be shown in court. Robinson’s attorneys have asked the judge in the case to block the footage, and requested to ban all cameras from the courtroom, arguing that “highly biased” media coverage could hinder his right to a fair trial.
Kirk’s widow, and prosecutors and attorneys for media outlets, have urged the judge to keep the proceedings open.
“In the absence of transparency, speculation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories are likely to proliferate, eroding public confidence in the judicial process,” Erika Kirk’s attorney wrote in a Monday court filing. “Such an outcome serves neither the interests of justice nor those of Ms Kirk.”
Robinson’s attorneys, however, have said that news media have become a “financial investor” in the case, and accused outlets of trying to determine what the defendant whispered to his attorneys with lip readers. During a hearing last month, a television camera operator zoomed in on Robinson’s face in violation of courtroom orders.
Legal experts have backed the validity of the defense team’s concerns. Media coverage in high-profile cases such as Tyler Robinson’s can have a direct “biasing effect” on potential jurors, said Valerie Hans, a professor at Cornell Law School.
“There were videos about the killing, and pictures and analysis (and) the entire saga of how this particular defendant came to turn himself in,” said Hans, a leading expert on the jury system. “When jurors come to a trial with this kind of background information from the media, it shapes how they see the evidence that is presented in the courtroom.”
Watching those videos might make people think, ‘Yeah, this was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel’,” Hans said.
Kirk was one of Donald Trump’s highest-profile allies and his organization, Turning Point USA, played a significant role in helping bolster Trump’s 2024 campaign. The national attention and political rhetoric around the case is expected to further complicate efforts to ensure Robinson receives a fair trial.
Even before Robinson was charged, people jumped to conclusions about who the shooter could be and what kind of politics he espoused, said University of Utah law professor Teneille Brown.
“People are just projecting a lot of their own sense of what they think was going on, and that really creates concerns about whether they can be open to hearing the actual evidence that’s presented,” she said.
Robinson has not yet entered a plea in the case. Prosecutors have said he has been linked to the killing with DNA evidence. He reportedly texted his romantic partner that he targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred”.
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White House approves Medal of Honor for Army Staff Sgt Michael Ollis
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The White House has approved the Medal of Honor for fallen Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, a Staten Island, New York, native who died in Afghanistan in 2013, while shielding an allied soldier, according to Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who said she was notified of the decision in a statement posted to social media.
The decision follows years of advocacy from veterans’ groups, elected officials and the Staten Island community to formally recognize Ollis’ actions, which supporters have long argued met the standard for our nation’s highest military honor.
In a Facebook post, Malliotakis said she had been notified directly by the White House.
“We were notified by the White House that Staten Island’s hometown hero, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis, has been approved for the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary act of heroism,” Malliotakis wrote.
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Split image of Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis, of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division. Ollis gave his life to protect a Polish soldier during an attack in the Ghazni province, Afghanistan, Aug. 28, 2013. Ollis is being awarded a Medal of Honor. (I Have Your Back/Facebook; DVIDs)
Ollis was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, 2013, when he used his body to shield a Polish Army officer during a suicide bombing. He was 24 years old.
“In 2013, Staff Sergeant Ollis gave his life to save an allied soldier, and his courage, selflessness, and sacrifice represent the very best of our nation,” she continued.
Malliotakis credited years of advocacy efforts, adding: “After years of advocacy from the American Legion, our elected officials, and the Staten Island community, we are grateful to President Donald Trump for recognizing Staff Sergeant Ollis’ extraordinary heroism with our nation’s highest military honor.”
The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest military decoration and is awarded for acts that go above and beyond the call of duty. While the standards for awarding the medal have evolved over time, it has always recognized “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life,” according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
The current criteria were established in 1963 during the Vietnam War.
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Brig. Gen. Eric Riley, deputy commanding general, 10th Mountain Division, poses with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, and uniformed students from the Staff Sgt. M. Ollis Junior Training Corps in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after a wreath laying ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 28, 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Devin Klecan)
Under those standards, the medal may be awarded for actions taken against an enemy of the U.S., during military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force, or while serving alongside friendly foreign forces engaged in armed conflict in which America is not a belligerent party.
Awarding the Medal involves a rigorous review process. Each recommendation requires detailed reports on the act itself and battlefield conditions, at least two sworn eyewitness statements, and additional corroborating evidence.
Recommendation packets must be approved through the full military chain of command before reaching the president, who serves as commander-in-chief.
Federal law also imposes strict timelines on the process, with recommendations requiring submission within three years of the valorous act and the medal awarded within five years. Any submission outside those limits requires an act of Congress to waive time restrictions.
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Army Staff Sgt. Michael Harold Ollis’ parents, Robert and Linda Ollis, sister Kelly Manzolillo, and the Polish Army officer whose life he saved, Lt. Karol Cierpika, joined to unveil his portrait and memorial plaque tribute during a ceremony renaming the dining facility the Staff Sgt. Michael Harold Ollis Warrior Grill, Oct. 27, 2023, at Camp Kosciuszko, Poland. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Karen Sampson)
Ollis’ family also addressed the reports in a statement shared by the SSG Michael Ollis Freedom Foundation.
“We are extremely grateful to the President of the United States for recognizing the heroism of our son, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, with the Medal of Honor,” the statement said. “Knowing that Michael’s life, legacy and final act of courage have not been forgotten leaves us with a feeling of overwhelming pride and eternal gratitude.”
The statement also thanked supporters in a separate statement who have advocated for the recognition.
“We also greatly appreciate the letters, emails and phone calls of support from government and military officials, local leaders, non-profit organizations and the many friends we are blessed to know here in Staten Island and beyond. It is deeply moving to know that you haven’t forgotten Michael or our family.”
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What is the new AI tool that created panic in the IT sector?: Lakhs of crores sank in one day, know what happened – Anthropic New Artificial Intelligence Tool Triggers Saaspocalypse Indian It Sector And Worldwide Falls In Day
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Researchers Find 341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Stealing Data from OpenClaw Users
A security audit of 2,857 skills on ClawHub has found 341 malicious skills across multiple campaigns, according to new findings from Koi Security, exposing users to new supply chain risks.
ClawHub is a marketplace designed to make it easy for OpenClaw users to find and install third-party skills. It’s an extension to the OpenClaw project, a self-hosted artificial intelligence (AI) assistant formerly known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot.
The analysis, which Koi conducted with the help of an OpenClaw bot named Alex, found that 335 skills use fake pre-requisites to install an Apple macOS stealer named Atomic Stealer (AMOS). This activity set has been codenamed ClawHavoc.
“You install what looks like a legitimate skill – maybe solana-wallet-tracker or youtube-summarize-pro,” Koi researcher Oren Yomtov said. “The skill’s documentation looks professional. But there’s a ‘Prerequisites’ section that says you need to install something first.”
This step involves instructions for both Windows and macOS systems: On Windows, users are asked to download a file called “openclaw-agent.zip” from a GitHub repository. On macOS, the documentation tells them to copy an installation script hosted at glot[.]io and paste it into the Terminal app. The targeting of macOS is no coincidence, as reports have emerged of people buying Mac Minis to run the AI assistant 24×7.
Present within the password-protected archive is a trojan with keylogging functionality to capture API keys, credentials, and other sensitive data on the machine, including those that the bot already has access to. On the other hand, the glot[.]io script contains obfuscated shell commands to fetch next-stage payloads from an attacker-controlled infrastructure.
This, in turn, entails reaching out to another IP address (“91.92.242[.]30”) to retrieve another shell script, which is configured to contact the same server to obtain a universal Mach-O binary that exhibits traits consistent with Atomic Stealer, a commodity stealer available for $500-1000/month that can harvest data from macOS hosts.
According to Koi, the malicious skills masquerade as
- ClawHub typosquats (e.g., clawhub, clawhub1, clawhubb, clawhubcli, clawwhub, cllawhub)
- Cryptocurrency tools like Solana wallets and wallet trackers
- Polymarket bots (e.g., polymarket-trader, polymarket-pro, polytrading)
- YouTube utilities (e.g., youtube-summarize, youtube-thumbnail-grabber, youtube-video-downloader)
- Auto-updaters (e.g., auto-updater-agent, update, updater)
- Finance and social media tools (e.g., yahoo-finance-pro, x-trends-tracker)
- Google Workspace tools claiming integrations with Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and Drive
- Ethereum gas trackers
- Lost Bitcoin finders
In addition, the cybersecurity company said it identified skills that hide reverse shell backdoors inside functional code (e.g., better-polymarket and polymarket-all-in-one), or exfiltrate bot credentials present in “~/.clawdbot/.env” to a webhook[.]site (e.g., rankaj).
The development coincides with a report from OpenSourceMalware, which also flagged the same ClawHavoc campaign targeting OpenClaw users.
“The skills masquerade as cryptocurrency trading automation tools and deliver information-stealing malware to macOS and Windows systems,” a security researcher who goes by the online alias 6mile said.
“All these skills share the same command-and-control infrastructure (91.92.242[.]30) and use sophisticated social engineering to convince users to execute malicious commands, which then steal crypto assets like exchange API keys, wallet private keys, SSH credentials, and browser passwords.”
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The problem stems from the fact that ClawHub is open by default and allows anyone to upload skills. The only restriction at this stage is that a publisher must have a GitHub account that’s at least one week old.
The issue with malicious skills hasn’t gone unnoticed by OpenClaw’s creator Peter Steinberger, who has since rolled out a reporting feature that allows signed-in users to flag a skill. “Each user can have up to 20 active reports at a time,” the documentation states. “Skills with more than 3 unique reports are auto-hidden by default.”
The findings underscore how open-source ecosystems continue to be abused by threat actors, who are now piggybacking on OpenClaw’s sudden popularity to orchestrate malicious campaigns and distribute malware at scale.
In a report last week, Palo Alto Networks warned that OpenClaw represents what British programmer Simon Willison, who coined the term prompt injection, describes as a “lethal trifecta” that renders AI agents vulnerable by design due to their access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally.
The intersection of these three capabilities, combined with OpenClaw’s persistent memory, “acts as an accelerant” and amplifies the risks, the cybersecurity company added.
“With persistent memory, attacks are no longer just point-in-time exploits. They become stateful, delayed-execution attacks,” researchers Sailesh Mishra and Sean P. Morgan said. “Malicious payloads no longer need to trigger immediate execution on delivery. Instead, they can be fragmented, untrusted inputs that appear benign in isolation, are written into long-term agent memory, and later assembled into an executable set of instructions.”
“This enables time-shifted prompt injection, memory poisoning, and logic bomb–style activation, where the exploit is created at ingestion but detonates only when the agent’s internal state, goals, or tool availability align.”
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The people betting on catastrophic world events – podcast | Business
In the early hours of 3 January, Donald Trump ordered a surprise attack on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to kidnap the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. Millions of Venezuelans’ lives were thrown into uncertainty. Politicians at home and abroad scrambled to respond. It seemed this was something no one had seen coming. Except one person did actually predict it.
In the hours before the attack, someone – and we have no way of knowing who – placed a series of bets that Donald Trump would oust Maduro on a prediction market platform, netting them nearly $500,000 when it happened. These platforms allow their users not just to bet on whoever’s going to win the Super Bowl, but also on world events. Heavily regulated under the Biden administration, these apps have enjoyed a huge boom in popularity since Trump came to power.
The Atlantic’s senior editor, Saahil Desai, explains them to Annie Kelly. “They’re called prediction markets because these sites are thought of as more akin to stock markets. The idea being that you put money based on what you think will happen. And in that sense, prediction markets let you forecast the future. But in effect, it’s just a fancy way of betting.”
He explains why the fact that media organisations are partnering with prediction market platforms is a worrying trend. “Let’s say you are a donor to a major Senate candidate. You could put millions of dollars into the prediction market for whether your preferred candidate would win and swing the odds. And so you can really shape media coverage in a way that you can’t with traditional polling. And all of that is exacerbated as media outlets start to incorporate this into their coverage.”
But how do they work, why are they such big news in the US and why does Trump want to set up his own?
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UP: Dense fog in large parts of the state including Lucknow, alert issued for rain in these districts; Hail will also fall – Up: Dense Fog Covers Large Parts Of The State, Including Lucknow; Rain Alert Issued For These Districts; Hello
The effect of western disturbance active in Uttar Pradesh since Sunday was also seen on Tuesday. The rain, which started from the western districts, spread to Bundelkhand, Madhyanchal and Awadh regions. Light to moderate rain was recorded in Hamirpur, Mahoba, Chitrakoot, Jhansi and Lalitpur of Bundelkhand in the early hours of Tuesday. Moderate rain also occurred in Kanpur, Unnao, Lucknow, Barabanki, Ayodhya and Rae Bareli.
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Bezos focused on surviving Trump over saving Washington Post, ex-staffer says
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A former staffer of The Washington Post is taking aim at its owner Jeff Bezos, accusing him of prioritizing his survival in the era of Donald Trump rather than saving his paper.
In a piece published Tuesday titled “A Billionaire’s Surrender,” former Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler began by highlighting Bezos’ net worth, noting that he was worth $25 billion in 2013 when he first bought the paper, and now he’s worth “about $250 billion” as major layoffs are expected to rock the newsroom.
“Bezos is a businessman, and the Washington Post is not a charity, so I understand the inclination to demand that losses be stemmed. The newsroom should be able to stand on its own feet,” Kessler wrote on his Substack. “But even if the losses are still around $100 million a year — the figure announced a couple of years ago — for a person of Bezos’ wealth, that would mean he’d have to close the place in… 2,500 years.”
He continued, “I don’t think the layoffs have much to do with saving money. Amazon, after all, just spent $75 million buying and promoting a documentary about Melania Trump. It’s about power and influence in Donald Trump’s second term.”
A former Washington Post staffer accused his ex-billionaire boss Jeff Bezos of prioritizing self-preservation in the Trump era over saving the paper. ((Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)
Kessler, who took a voluntary buyout last summer after being at the paper for 27 years, recalled being part of a small group of Post journalists who had lunch with Bezos following the 2016 election and how Bezos was asked whether he had any concerns about Trump seeking retribution as president.
“Bezos acknowledged that Trump would assume any negative story about him had been ordered up by Bezos, because that’s what Trump would do if he owned a newspaper. But he said that wasn’t our problem. We only had to write the best stories possible; he could handle the heat if Trump got mad,” Kessler wrote. “Those were comforting words at the time. As far as I know, Bezos has never interfered with any news coverage during his 13 years as owner — even stories critical of Amazon or coverage of Bezos’s personal life, let alone politics. For many years, he didn’t even appear to get very involved with the editorial page, even though, as owner, he could dictate whatever opinion-page policy he wanted.”
Glenn Kessler left The Washington Post last summer after 27 years at the paper. (Washington Post)
Despite Trump’s vocal animosity towards the Post, Bezos “was unbowed,” according to Kessler, pointing to its new slogan at the time “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and boosted the size of staff during Trump’s first term in office.
“He appeared to embrace the idea, dare I say, that he was the steward of a public trust,” Kessler told readers. “Presidential-level threats disappeared with Trump’s defeat in 2020, though Joe Biden was no fan of the tech industry. But when Trump ran again and the Democrats were on the ropes, Bezos’s calculation changed. He could afford Trump’s first term; a second could be ruinous, especially as Elon Musk, his main rival in the space business, embraced Trump.”
“I used to think billionaires had enough ‘f— you’ money to do what they pleased. But in Trump’s creeping autocracy, and with his campaign of retribution, billionaires have too much to lose,” he added.
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has faced intense backlash as his paper continues facing financial headwinds. (Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images)
Kessler went on to say Bezos “appeared to have grown less interested in The Post,” pointing to how the paper’s top rival The New York Times made savvy business decisions like acquiring The Athletic and Wordle while the billionaire “lavished attention on his new love, Lauren Sánchez, whom he married last year in Venice in a $50-million extravaganza.”
“No longer engaged, Bezos appears to have embraced a crude calculus: laying off staff and trimming the sails of a once-great news organization sends a message to an audience of one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, even if the decision ruins the lives of scores of talented reporters and editors,” Kessler wrote before accusing Bezos of working hard “to ingratiate himself with Trump,” citing Amazon’s $1 million contribution to Trump’s inauguration and Bezos’ Mar-a-Lago visit.
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Bezos and The Washington Post for comment.
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The criticism comes as Washington Post staffers brace for a brutal round of layoffs, which could take place as soon as this week.
Reports indicate that hundreds of staffers could be let go as a result of the cuts and multiple sections could be gutted, including the sports and the foreign affairs teams.
Bezos took heat from employees in 2024 when he abruptly axed the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for the White House, after the editorial board had previously declared Trump the worst president in modern history.
The surprising decision shortly before the election sparked massive subscriber losses and a slew of staff resignations. Bezos later fueled more outrage when he announced he was overhauling its editorial pages to promote “free markets and personal liberties.”
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84 year old Shriram Charan Sahu: Fit with pure food and daily jogging
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Ranchi News: The secret of the health of 84-year-old farmer Shriram Charan Sahu of Kanke, Ranchi is his daily routine. Even today, he jogs and works in the fields every day. Throughout his life, he has described pure food, Tulsi water and hard work as the secret of his health. Let us know about him.
Ranchi: Shriram Charan Sahu, resident of Kanke block of Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, is still very fit. He is so fit that he looks young even at the age of 84. He jogs even at this age. Not only this, he does farming with a hoe. He acts exactly like a young person. He told that he has never eaten junk food in his life. Earlier, when there was poverty, we used to drink two glasses of Maad to satisfy hunger. He has built his body by drinking all this.
He told that there is one thing which he has followed from the beginning. He definitely drinks Tulsi water in the morning and has never had fever in his life till date. Shriram Charan Sahu tells that whatever he has eaten since childhood till now. He has eaten only from the farm. He also prepares water from paddy, vegetables and basil leaves at home and consumes it in the fields. This is the reason why he has been eating very simple and pure food since the beginning.
Used to walk 25 kilometers to save 2 annas
He told that it happened about 40 years ago. At that time it cost 2 annas by bus to go to Jagannath temple from Kanke. We used to say why spend so much. In this time there will be enough food and ration for the house will arrive. In such a situation, we used to run 20-25 kilometers to save this money.
At the same time, even today we leave home at 4:00 in the morning. Take it in your hand and reach the field. Even today, he does all the work with his hands, whether plowing the fields or removing weeds. It is not that we do not have modern equipment, but still we have a habit from the beginning of doing it ourselves, it is more fun. Their work is done well and the body also gets exercised.
Haven’t had even a single bottle of water till date
He further told what a bottle of water (glucose) means in life till date. I don’t know how bottled water enters the body. This has not been in my experience till date. Till date, I have not been admitted to the hospital and the only secret behind this is hard work, eating pure food from my farm on time, taking adequate amount of sunlight every day and not taking tension. This is the secret of his health.
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