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Watch live as Day 4 of the preliminary hearing in the murder case of Charlie Kirk gets under way in Provo, Utah. After a dramatic third day dominated by legal battles over key evidence, prosecutors are expected to present the redacted recorded statements of Tyler Robinson's former roommate, Lance Twiggs, along with additional digital evidence they say ties Robinson to the murder. Day 3 also included testimony surrounding Robinson's surrender to law enforcement, while defense attorneys continued challenging the prosecution's forensic evidence and fought to limit what the judge could consider. With the hearing entering its final stages, today's testimony could be among the most significant yet as prosecutors work to convince Judge Tony Graf there is enough evidence to send Robinson to trial on aggravated murder charges and pursue the death penalty.Watch Day 4 live: Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Honduran national with prior convictions for child sex abuse and illegal re-entry has been taken back into federal custody after he allegedly jumped from a moving train in an attempt to slip into the U.S. undetected, according to details provided to Blaze News by the Department of Homeland Security.Border Patrol agents assigned to the Uvalde Station were conducting train-check operations Saturday when three men reportedly jumped from a railcar and ran. One didn't get far.'Child sex offenders who repeatedly attempt to enter our country pose a serious threat, and we stand ready to answer that threat.'The DHS identified the man as Cristobal Cortes-Cartagena, 39, and a records check on scene revealed a lengthy criminal history.Cortes-Cartagena was convicted in California in 2010 of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and served five years in prison before being removed from the country.In 2017, he was convicted of illegal re-entry and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. California prosecutors also convicted him separately of failing to register as a sex offender, adding another 14 months to his time served.RELATED: Democrat Pramila Jayapal gets ANNOYED by a mom whose daughter was killed by an illegal alien Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesHe was deported a second time in 2021.Cortes-Cartagena is now back in federal custody in connection with the Saturday incident. He faces a federal charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison."Constant vigilance by our Border Patrol agents is paramount to keeping our communities safe," said a statement from Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Anthony "Scott" Good. "Child sex offenders who repeatedly attempt to enter our country pose a serious threat, and we stand ready to answer that threat."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Rupert Lowe, the head of Restore Britain in the U.K. Parliament, released a damning report on June 16, detailing the staggering scale of the horrific crimes committed against generations of young white girls in Britain by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs.The 219-page "Rape Gang Inquiry Report" — which was commissioned by Lowe and led by Sammy Woodhouse, a rape-gang survivor who over a decade ago helped expose the mass rape of girls in Rotherham, England — estimated that the number of white girls subjected to "repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma" since the 1950s is "at the very least, 250,000."'You're going to have a real problem.'The report's disturbing insights not only into the crimes but into the British establishment's egregious response captured Joe Rogan's attention last month. In an interview released Wednesday, the podcaster sat down with Lowe to discuss what Elon Musk has elsewhere dubbed "the rape of Britain," as well as the correlated issues of mass migration, the failure of multiculturalism, western Islamicization, and the fall of civilizations.After raising the alarm about the costly and seemingly interminable inundation of foreigners into the United Kingdom, Lowe — whose party advocates for mass deportations — highlighted Britain's problem with migrant populations, particularly those originating from Islamic nations, that "are increasingly living in small groups of people who haven't integrated, who are living under Sharia law, and who have their own courts."Rogan, unsettled by Lowe's observation of parallel Islamic legal systems operating in the U.K. and allegedly tolerated by British authorities, said, "There's certain cultures that if you allow them to come into your community and then they institute the laws of the country where they came from, you're going to have a real problem.""They don't live the way you live. They don't have the same respect for women that you have. They don't treat them the same way. They don't allow dogs," continued Rogan. "The idea is supposed to be that Western society is inclusive and progressive because we're intelligent and educated and we care — but you can care so much that you let in criminals, and then you give those criminals all your money, and then the criminals can take over your country, slowly but surely."RELATED: 'Beyond evil': Nightmarish report reveals full scale of mass Islamic rapes of '250,000' white British girls L-R: OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images; Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesRogan suggested that people are wrong to be skeptical about the possibility and ramifications of such a takeover, referring back to the collapse of the empires of yesteryear."People look at the Colosseum, you look at ancient Greece, and they think, 'Wow, I wonder what happened to those guys.' What do you think happened?" said Rogan. "Probably the same s**t that's happening right now to England, the same s**t that could have happened to America. It's — civilizations fall apart for various reasons. And one great way to get them to fall apart is to bring in a bunch of people and they don't have to follow your laws."Lowe bridged the topics of civilizational collapse and rapacious parallel societies to the rape gang inquiry, suggesting that he and others had to crowdfund the report because the "government will not have a statutory inquiry" — a special kind of state inquiry that can compel witnesses to give evidence or to supply documents — because the powers that be are sensitive to the "Muslim bloc vote."Lowe claimed that as the result of his efforts to force disclosures in Parliament relevant to the inquiry, it has become clear that "a lot of the data has not been properly collected" by the police, the National Health Service, social services, and other institutions with regard to the crimes and the particulars of their perpetrators.The Restore Britain leader suggested further that while the powers that be know that members of imported populations are disproportionately prowling about and preying on native British girls, "they don't want to admit that their multicultural experiment" has failed, "which as you probably know, famously Enoch Powell warned would fail with his ... 'Rivers of Blood' speech, for which he was heavily criticized.""They don't want to be called racist," added Lowe.Rogan said, "We hope you guys turn it around."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I remember back in the early Trump days, I would cruise by the Politics section of my local bookstore to see which celebrity leftist pundit they were promoting this week.One day, I noticed a small subsection within Politics called the Alt-Right.The alt-right was like the early punk movement. If you were actually there, it was crazy fun. If you weren’t, everything you heard about it was negative.I was amazed that a bookstore in my blue city would admit that the “alt-right” existed. But then I saw that all these books were about the evils of the alt-right.Without exception, these books described a dark and dangerous world of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, fascists, racists, homophobes, and misogynists ... most of whom apparently lived in caves in the darkest reaches of Idaho.The authors of these books often struck a self-congratulatory tone. How brave they were to explore these nefarious netherworlds!Eggheads unlimitedThe truth was that all of these books were incredibly dry and boring. Most were published by university presses and featured dubious statistics, out-of-context quotes, and obvious misrepresentations.The writers were brain-dead academics. They had no understanding of trends, or vibes, or zeitgeists. They barely knew what a meme was.And of course, they lacked any sense of humor at all. This made it impossible for them to understand the sarcasm and irony of the quick-witted young bloggers and commentators they were supposedly writing about.An untold storyI remember wondering if anyone would ever write an honest account of the alt-right. Probably not. It’s fairly common that most vanguard youth cultures are dismissed or misinterpreted.The alt-right was like the early punk movement. If you were actually there, it was crazy fun. If you weren’t, everything you heard about it was negative.So you can imagine my surprise when I heard about Scott Greer’s latest book, "Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s America."Though the official title was relatively innocuous, the word on the street was this is it, this is the first serious history of the alt-right, by a writer who understood it, participated in it, and was very nearly destroyed by its fallout.Needless to say, I was eager to read it.How far we’ve comeGreer named his book "Whitepill" because it describes the many advances conservatives have made during the Trump era and celebrates their many victories.For those of us over 50: To be “white-pilled” about something means to be excited or happy about it.In the first sections of the book, Greer reminds us of the state of conservatism during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.It was “cuckservatism” basically, to borrow an alt-right-ism. The Republicans were so eager to please and so afraid of offending that they came up with catchphrases like “compassionate conservatism” to market themselves.They promoted same-sex marriage, amnesty for illegal immigrants, affirmative action, and a host of other leftist projects.We think of our current Republicans as being hypocritical, if not traitorous, for not protecting Americans from voter fraud, violent crime, and open borders.But they were even worse 20 years ago! Greer gives a good, succinct accounting of this.A new defiant energyIn response to the extreme wimpiness of 2000s establishment Republicans, a new defiant energy began to appear among young conservatives.Greer describes an obscure 2008 article by historian Paul Gottfried, who predicted the end of that era’s gutless conservatism:Beneath that crumbling establishment, [Gottfried] saw the stirrings of a “younger, less inhibited” generation of rightists willing to defy taboos and confront head-on what he described as an “intolerable political situation.” He called this nascent rebellion the Alternative Right.Most people who read "Whitepill" will have a rough idea of what Gottfried’s alternative right became, but Greer simplifies it for the normies: "[The alt-right] was an online phenomenon, an ideological and aesthetic counter-culture that broke hard from the philosophical premises underpinning the modern [liberal] 'idea' of America."And more specifically:Many young white men in particular came to feel alienated by a new liberalism that pathologized their "whiteness" and demanded that they "check their privilege." The Alt-Right explained to them in explicit terms why and how they could reject this new social paradigm."RELATED: The cure for liking socialism? Visiting a socialist country L-R: The author in East Berlin, 1984. Blake Nelson; Cuba, 2007. Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesYouth must be servedFrom there, Greer takes us through the initial flourishing of alt-right culture. The kids were going to have their say!But he also points out its obvious limitations, mainly that it was completely online and mostly anonymous. Its growth was therefore random and chaotic. There was no accountability; there were no boundaries.If it sometimes felt like a “movement” or even a “political party,” in reality, it was a free-floating, spontaneous, cultural phenomenon created in the cartoon world of the internet.Still, an entire generation came to know its symbols, its humor, its language, its youthful goofiness. It was hopeful and fun, and it pointed toward a way out of the mess we were in.The end of the beginningOf course, we all know where the alt-right story ended: in Charlottesville, in the summer of 2017.The Charlottesville “Unite the Right Rally” was doomed from the beginning. Though I had only just become aware of the alt-right myself, even I could sense the danger inherent in its real-world manifestation.I remember one blogger I followed begging people to stay away. “IT’S A TRAP!” he kept saying. And he was right. And a lot of people got caught in it.Life in the swampGreer occasionally inserts his own experiences as a writer, editor, and journalist into this narrative. And it’s good that he does. As he describes his early career in Washington, D.C., you get a sense of what a treacherous time it was to work in politics.Imagine trying to hold down a real-world job as a young conservative in the midst of peak wokeness! At different points, Greer was doxxed, fired, and blacklisted. But he managed to soldier on.Which is good news for the rest of us. Because he has written an exceptional book about a very important subject.Perhaps the most notable thing about "Whitepill" is that despite Greer’s obvious right-wing bias, he actually succeeds in producing a balanced and objective account of what happened and why. He is — as best he can — attempting to tell the truth.Imagine that. An honest person in politics. That is indeed a white pill.