https://www.scmp.com/rss/523489/feed The latest news and top stories on Utah Valley University. A prominent Orem, Utah-based public university, Utah Valley University is dedicated to educating every student for success in work and life. Operating a unique dual-mission model, it combines the rigour of a teaching university with community college vocational programs. UVU offers a wide array of master’s, bachelor’s, associate degrees and certificates, with a strong emphasis on engaged learning and student success. As the largest... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Tribune News Service Tribune News Service The patient initially came to see Dr Mark Supiano in 2017 because her family was concerned about her short-term memory loss. While taking her history and vital signs, Supiano, a geriatrician at the University of Utah, in the United States, saw that her blood pressure was 148/86: above normal despite her taking two medications intended to lower it. “Clearly that was too high,” he says. Several factors could have contributed to the high reading, including the anti-inflammatory drug the 78-year-old... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3349632/how-hypertensions-links-dementia-make-blood-pressure-control-even-more-important?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3349632/how-hypertensions-links-dementia-make-blood-pressure-control-even-more-important?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:15:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. On Sunday, Bahrain accused Iran of damaging one of its desalination plants. Earlier, Iran said a US air strike had damaged an Iranian plant. Hundreds of desalination plants sit along the Persian Gulf coast, putting individual systems that supply water to millions within range of Iranian missile or drone strikes. Without... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3345897/iran-strikes-desalination-plants-threaten-arab-states-water-supplies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3345897/iran-strikes-desalination-plants-threaten-arab-states-water-supplies?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:22:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by US officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month. The US State Department said on Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college campus on September 10. The announcement came as US President Donald Trump was posthumously... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329038/us-revokes-visas-6-foreigners-over-charlie-kirk-related-speech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329038/us-revokes-visas-6-foreigners-over-charlie-kirk-related-speech?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:39:17 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump proclaimed Charlie Kirk a “martyr for American freedom” in a memorial ceremony to commemorate the political activist as Erika Kirk said she forgave the man who gunned down her husband. “On that day, this evangelist for American liberty became immortal,” Trump said on Sunday before tens of thousands of mourners inside the State Farm stadium in Glendale, Arizona. “He’s a martyr now for American freedom.” Trump described how Kirk would ask him to fly across the country to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3326322/trump-pays-tribute-charlie-kirk-tens-thousands-attend-memorial-service?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:16:07 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service George Zinn, the Utah man who falsely confessed to killing Charlie Kirk moments after last week’s fateful shooting at Utah Valley University, now stands accused of felony sexual exploitation of a minor. The Provo Police Department arrested Zinn last Wednesday after he loudly stated he was responsible for assassinating the 31-year-old right-wing activist, allowing “the actual suspect to flee and to hinder law enforcement”, according to a Tuesday statement from the Utah County Sheriff’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325786/fake-charlie-kirk-shooter-george-zinn-arrested-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325786/fake-charlie-kirk-shooter-george-zinn-arrested-child-porn?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:43:14 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man charged with murder on Tuesday in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, sent a text message confessing to his partner and hid a note beforehand saying he had the chance to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it”, a prosecutor said. DNA on the trigger of the rifle that killed Kirk also matched that of Robinson, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said while outlining the evidence and announcing charges that could result in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325780/tyler-robinson-charged-charlie-kirks-murder-could-face-death-penalty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325780/tyler-robinson-charged-charlie-kirks-murder-could-face-death-penalty?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:38:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Vice-President J.D. Vance on Monday hosted the radio programme of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist who was assassinated last week, telling listeners that the best way he knows how to honour his friend is to be a better husband and father. Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show from his ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House. The live streaming of the two-hour programme was broadcast in the White House press briefing room and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325646/vance-hosts-charlie-kirk-radio-show-pledges-honour-friend-being-better-husband?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325646/vance-hosts-charlie-kirk-radio-show-pledges-honour-friend-being-better-husband?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:48:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has pledged to carry on her husband’s work, after US authorities announced his alleged assassin had finally been captured. Investigators had appeared to be making slow progress in the hunt for whoever gunned down Donald Trump’s close ally, until they released security camera images of a young man. “We got him,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox told a press conference on Friday, identifying the suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, who had reportedly been... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325435/charlie-kirks-widow-vows-continue-his-work?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325435/charlie-kirks-widow-vows-continue-his-work?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:20:51 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Boeden Seitzinger is reeling from the trauma of witnessing close-up the moment that right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck. “I saw blood just spraying from his carotid artery. It was obvious that he wasn’t making it,” the electrician, wearing a red Trump campaign cap, said. “It was terrifying.” The killing of Kirk on Wednesday, while speaking at Utah Valley University, highlighted the extreme levels of gun violence in the United States. But Seitzinger... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325423/fans-call-charlie-kirks-death-terrifying-no-mood-give-guns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325423/fans-call-charlie-kirks-death-terrifying-no-mood-give-guns?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:26:58 +0000 Reuters Reuters The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s shooting, Tyler Robinson, is a 22-year-old native of Utah who authorities say had allegedly criticised the conservative influencer in a recent conversation and was living with his family at the time of the shooting. Robinson was arrested late on Thursday after a family friend called authorities, officials said on Friday. Investigators have not publicly identified a motive. Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters that a family member interviewed by law enforcement... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325399/who-tyler-robinson-suspect-charlie-kirks-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325399/who-tyler-robinson-suspect-charlie-kirks-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:21:04 +0000 Reuters Reuters US investigators on Thursday released photos and a video of a person of interest in the fatal shooting of influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and said they had found the rifle believed to have been used in the politically charged killing. Kirk, a 31-year-old author, podcast host and close ally of US President Donald Trump, helped build the Republican Party’s support among younger voters. He was killed on Wednesday by a single gunshot as he gave a talk at a university in Utah in what... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325244/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-says-assassins-high-powered-rifle-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325244/charlie-kirk-shooting-fbi-says-assassins-high-powered-rifle-found?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:06:33 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US President Donald Trump’s confirmation of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, his close ally, at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday has sent shock waves through an already deeply divided nation. “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie”, Trump wrote on social media. Calling it a “dark moment for America”, Trump in a video address from the Oval... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325102/right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-utah-trump-says-we-must-all-pray-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325102/right-wing-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-utah-trump-says-we-must-all-pray-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:30:47 +0000