Month: September 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the “disgusting” and “false” rumors that aim to connect Israel to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In a video statement posted Thursday, Netanyahu defended Kirk as a fierce ally of Israel and rejected suggestions that the country would want him killed. “This is insane. It is false.…
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Former President Obama says the nation is at an “inflection point” after the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. In his first public remarks on the shooting, Obama called Kirk’s death a tragedy.   “Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum,” he said, “what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and tragic.”   Obama…
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California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid…
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“There’s nothing darker than that,” he warned.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr is in the spotlight in the wake of ABC indefinitely suspending late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel came under fire from President Trump and conservative lawmakers for his comments on Monday regarding reactions on the right to the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. “We hit some new lows…
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President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday criticized President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, arguing his platforming of a convicted Belgium Holocaust denier made him unfit for the role. The Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced White’s nomination Wednesday, part of an effort to move forward with more than two dozen of Trump’s ambassador and…
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The Supreme Court will consider whether President Trump can use emergency powers to justify his sweeping tariffs worldwide on Nov. 5, the court announced Thursday. The official scheduling of the oral arguments comes a week after the justices agreed to hear the Trump administration’s appeal and fast-track the cases, which have broad implications for the…
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to send unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country, writing that the government’s insistence that it came at parents’ request “crumbled like a house of cards.” Immigration lawyers raced to court in the middle of the night as the administration took steps to swiftly send…
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President Trump on Thursday claimed late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel had his show taken off the air “because he had bad ratings,” shrugging off a question about whether it was an attack on free speech. A reporter with ITV in the United Kingdom asked Trump during a joint press conference with British Prime…
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Former President Obama condemned President Trump’s comments Thursday celebrating the removal of Jimmy Kimmel’s show from various networks after the comedian joked about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against…
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Harry Enten said Republicans in the Lone Star State may have “bit off a bit more than they can chew.”

House Democratic leaders called for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr to resign Thursday after ABC announced it would stop airing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” due to the host’s remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  ABC’s decision to pull Kimmel’s show came shortly after Carr threatened during a podcast interview to revoke…
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President Trump said Thursday that the recognition of a Palestinian state was a rare area of disagreement between him and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a joint press conference with the two leaders. Trump was asked about Starmer’s impending recognition of a Palestinian state and what more he could say to Israel to stop…
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, displayed numerous signatures of President Trump’s over the years to combat White House claims that the president’s signature on a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein is a forgery. “Just last week, our committee released a birthday note that Trump personally…
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ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show off the air “indefinitely” Wednesday over comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter.

Vice President Vance joked Thursday morning about Secretary of State Marco Rubio taking over for comedian Jimmy Kimmel as an additional job after ABC pulled Kimmel off the air Wednesday night. “Everyone please congratulate @marcorubio, the new host of ABC’s late night show!” Vance wrote Thursday morning in a post on the social platform X,…
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Wednesday defended ABC’s decision to pull late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air over the host’s jokes about the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. During an appearance on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Carr said Kimmel and other left-leaning comics are “facing the consequences” of catering to…
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“We don’t have to speculate about what comes next,” the analyst said ominously.

On the second day of their state visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump headed to Chequers to meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, first lady Melania Trump stayed in Windsor for a couple of engagements. First, she joined Queen Camilla for a tour of the Royal Library and Queen Mary doll’s house. Then she…
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Free speech crackdown claims Kimmel, judge orders Khalil deportation and Trump’s tech deal with the UK – just some of the stories that HuffPost is following.

Democrats are enjoying the show — for now, at least.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has turned his political platform into a stage where Donald Trump is the punchline. His all-caps parody tweets, snappy television takedowns and viral memes have given Democrats something they long craved — the visceral thrill of watching one of their…
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and other district leaders will testify before the House Oversight Committee Thursday morning on crime and general oversight of the nation’s capital. The hearing comes more than a month after President Trump deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement to D.C. to patrol the streets and crack down…
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An ongoing large-scale federal immigration enforcement operation continues to focus on targeting what the Trump administration considers the “worst of the worst” in the greater Chicago area, despite ongoing opposition from elected officials. NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, got an exclusive look at how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively working to take…
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It’s the go-to phrase for Democrats, accusing President Trump and anyone who supports him as “fascist.” Their favorite insult, thrown around like so much confetti, makes it hard to figure out which media personalities are engaged in dishonest propaganda and which ones really believe it. But such use of the term only reveals their complete…
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