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New Orleans church abuse documentary based on Guardian reporting wins top award

God As My Witness shares survivors’ stories and exposes church cover-ups as it returns to the scandal’s epicenter

A film examining the Catholic clergy molestation crisis in New Orleans recently won the prize for best documentary at Colorado’s Winter Park film festival and has been chosen to be screened in the city where the scandal has unfolded.

God As My Witness makes “clear that those who commit these atrocities cannot hide” while giving “a voice to the survivors, justice to the abused and a platform to be heard,” the Winter Park film festival’s director, Connor Nelson, said in a statement.

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© Photograph: Provided to the Guardian

© Photograph: Provided to the Guardian

© Photograph: Provided to the Guardian

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Utah prosecutors’ evidence indicates suspected motives of Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter

Tyler Robinson is quoted talking to his partner about having enough of the far-right activist’s ‘hatred’ in texts

Evidence put forth by Utah prosecutors Tuesday offered the clearest indication yet of what they suspect motivated Tyler Robinson to kill far-right provocateur Charlie Kirk.

In seized texts reproduced by prosecutors as they charged the 22-year-old with capital murder and other crimes after his arrest, Robinson is quoted talking to his partner – whom they described as “transitioning genders” – about having enough of Kirk’s “hatred”.

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© Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

© Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

© Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

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Charlie Kirk killing suspect charged with aggravated murder by Utah prosecutors

Tyler Robinson charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm and witness tampering and could face the death penalty

Utah state prosecutors on Tuesday charged Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting the far right activist Charlie Kirk, with aggravated murder – and they say they intend to pursue the death penalty against the 22-year-old if he is convicted.

Jeff Gray, the top prosecutor in Utah county, where Kirk was fatally shot on 10 September, said Robinson also ordered his roommate to delete incriminating text messages and stay silent if police questioned him in the aftermath of the Turning Point USA executive director’s killing.

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© Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

© Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

© Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

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