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ABC Pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Indefinitely After Host's Charlie Kirk Comments

Sep 17, 2025 3:21pm PT Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule "indefinitely" after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Nexstar said Wednesday that its "owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt "Jimmy ...

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Donald and Melania Trump's unusual sleeping arrangement during UK state visit laid bare

Donald and Melania Trump's unusual sleeping arrangement during their stay at Windsor Castle has been revealed by insiders. The US President will reportedly sleep in a separate suite to his wife while in the UK for a state visit, with the couple also sleeping in their own sheets carried over the Atlantic. Members of Donald Trump's team purportedly looked over the room where the leader of the free world would be staying and judged the royal bedding to not be up to it. The President's squad are sai ...

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Kash Patel Melts Down In Congressional Hearing When Asked About Trump's Name Being In the Epstein Files

Sep 17th, 2025, 1:36 pm Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel sparred during a heated House hearing exchange on the Jeffrey Epstein files on Wednesday. Swalwell repeatedly pushed Patel about whether or not President Donald Trump was given notice that his name is in the files, as has been reported, resulting in Patel attacking Swalwell’s time in office. Swalwell began by asking, “Director, the first time you saw Donald Trump’s name was in the Epstein files. Did you close the fi ...

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Republicans Go Nuclear Again To Confirm 48 Trump Nominees At Once

Sep 17, 2025, 02:37 PM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago WASHINGTON — Republicans triggered the “nuclear” option for the second time in less than a week on Wednesday, unilaterally changing the Senate’s rules to confirm 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees with a single vote over the objections of Democrats. Bitterly complaining about months of Democratic obstruction, GOP senators last week began the process of establishing a new precedent that now allows them to confirm scores of Trump’s nominees ...

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Treasury to phase out paper checks, citing cost and security

Posted 1:10 PM, Sep 17, 2025 The Treasury Department will stop sending monthly paper checks after Sept. 30. This will impact those receiving Social Security benefits. This also means tax returns will no longer be sent via mail. The Social Security Administration says fewer than 1% of Social Security recipients currently receive paper checks. Those individuals will need to opt in to direct deposit or a prepaid debit card option to continue receiving their benefits. "We’re proactively s ...

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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president's visit

(The Guardian) Four people have been arrested after images of Donald Trump alongside deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle, where the US president is set to be hosted by King Charles during his state visit to Britain. Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit, and will be greeted by Charles on Wednesday for a day of pomp at Windsor Castle, about 25 miles west of London. Earlier on Tuesday, protesters unfurled a massive banner featuring a photograph of Trump and Epstein near Windsor Castle, and later projected several images of the two on to one of the castle’s towers.

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

(New York Times) In a matter of months, the Trump administration has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer-related research grants and contracts, arguing that they were part of politically driven D.E.I. initiatives, and suspended or delayed payments for hundreds of millions more. It is trying to sharply reduce the percentage of expenses that the government will cover for federally funded cancer-research labs. It has terminated hundreds of government employees who helped lead the country’s cancer-research system and ensured that new discoveries reached clinicians, cancer patients and the American public.

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DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists

(The New Republic) 404 Media has reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right wing violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. This comes as the Trump administration and Republicans generally blame political violence solely on the left. The study was available online at least until Friday, according to 404 Media, but can now only be found via a Wayback Machine link.

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Rebel Republican rips GOP bid to charge teens as adults -- while ignoring Epstein abusers

(Raw Story) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a frequent thorn in the side of President Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues on major issues, took to X on Tuesday to criticize his party's current priorities — particularly with regard to an upcoming bill that would impose stricter criminal sentencing on the government of Washington, D.C. "Tonight, Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC," wrote Massie. "Let me get this straight: Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files."

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Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy

(Vox) In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday, President Donald Trump claims new powers that, if he prevails, would give him near-total control over all US fiscal and monetary policy.

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Treasury to phase out paper checks, citing cost and security

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ABC Pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Indefinitely After Host's Charlie Kirk Comments

8 hrs ago - Sep 17, 2025 3:21pm PT Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule "indefinitely" after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the prog ... (Variety)

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Judge orders ICE to improve conditions for detainees at NYC holding facility

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Bipartisan Senate group releases new bill to help increase affordable child care

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Protesters rally against $12B cut to education in Trump plan, US House bill

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Donald and Melania Trump's unusual sleeping arrangement during UK state visit laid bare

9 hrs ago - Donald and Melania Trump's unusual sleeping arrangement during their stay at Windsor Castle has been revealed by insiders. The US President will reportedly sleep in a separate suite to his wife while in the UK for a state visit, with the couple also ... (Express)

Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to 'identify enemy' after Charlie Kirk shooting

9 hrs ago - Wed 17 Sep 2025 13.40 EDT First published on Wed 17 Sep 2025 12.48 EDT Barack Obama addressed the recent killing of Charlie Kirk and told a crowd in Pennsylvania on Tuesday the country was “at an inflection point”, but that political violen ... (The Guardian)