Utah State University officials evacuated a campus building in Logan ahead of its Turning Point USA event tonight.

Law enforcement and bomb squads investigated the device, eventually detonating it.

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Newsweek has more:

No injuries were immediately reported, and authorities have not said whether the package posed a credible threat. Officials urged the campus community to avoid the area while the investigation was ongoing.

The evacuation came as the school prepares to host a Turning Point USA event tonight. Charlie Kirk’s death — the founder of Turning Point USA who was fatally shot at Utah Valley University in September — cast a long shadow over the event.

Security measures for the TPUSA event include metal detectors, bag checks and other crowd screening protocols, according to the university.

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“Turning Point’s big event at Utah State University is a GO following a reported bomb threat. Police have cleared the scene, and events have been cleared to proceed as scheduled,” journalist Nick Sortor commented.

“TPUSA is back on campus this week, holding its first major event in Utah since founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The conservative youth group is now being led by Erika Kirk, who says the mission stays the same and Charlie’s voice will still be part of the daily podcast via archived clips,” Mario Nawfal wrote.

“Today’s lineup at Utah State includes Sen. Mike Lee, Gov. Spencer Cox, and a rotating crew of right-wing heavyweights filling in for Kirk. The message is clear: Turning Point isn’t slowing down, and the tour is rolling on with bigger names, louder cheers, and an empty chair left in tribute,” he added.

The Associated Press provided further info:

The college tour is now being headlined by some of the biggest conservative names, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Glenn Beck. Tuesday’s event will feature conservative podcast host Alex Clark and a panel with Rep. Andy Biggs, former Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Gov. Spencer Cox. Sen. Mike Lee had to cancel a planned appearance due to budget votes in Washington and will appear by video instead, his spokesperson said.

And it will further a pledge his widow, Erika Kirk, made to continue the campus tour and the work of the organization he founded. She now oversees Turning Point along with a stable of her late husband’s former aides and friends.

Erika Kirk has sought to assure her husband’s followers that she intends to continue to run the operation as her late husband intended, closely following plans he laid out to her and to staff.

“We’re not going anywhere. We have the blueprints. We have our marching orders,” she said during an appearance on his podcast last week.

That will include, she said, continuing to tape the daily podcast.

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“My husband’s voice will live on. The show will go on,” she said, announcing plans for a rotating cast of hosts. She said they intended to lean heavily on old clips of her husband, including answering callers’ questions.

“We have decades’ worth of my husband’s voice. We have unused material from speeches that he’s had that no one has heard yet,” she said.

 

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