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#1 Hollywood Stars, Unions, and Fans Erupt With Outrage After ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel off Air - NBC News, Unions=Power&Step Up, Ricardo Savage, Richard Blumenthal/John Josephs, Doug Bell, BravoKitty411, Common Sense Prevails, Cormoran Strike, and Barack Obama/Nelson Calderón on X
Hollywood stars, unions, and fans have criticized Disney's ABC for indefinitely pulling "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air after pressure from the Federal Communications Commission over his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk. Kimmel criticized Republicans and the MAGA movement in his monologue Monday night, and ABC announced it was axing the show Wednesday, hours after FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to “take action.” Kimmel's suspension drew praise from President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans. But Hollywood, where Kimmel is popular as a frequent host of the Oscars and the Emmys, leaped to his defense... Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday he believes it would be "worthwhile" to investigate whether ABC’s daytime talk show "The View" is violating broadcast rules in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. Carr argued on "The Scott Jennings Show" that the left-leaning talk show could be violating the commission's "equal time" rule, which requires broadcasters to provide equal opportunity to all political candidates except for a "bona fide news show." Erika Kirk has been named CEO of Turning Point USA, taking over the organization that her husband, Charlie Kirk, helped found and led until his assassination last week. The move was announced by the organization’s board in a post on X. The post said Charlie Kirk had in prior discussions made known that “this is what he wanted in the event of his death.” “We will not surrender or kneel before evil,” board members said in a statement. “We will carry on.” Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 and transformed it into one of the most influential conservative organizations that was credited with galvanizing youth toward Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. President Donald Trump went after Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar on Thursday, claiming that she married her brother in order to gain her US citizenship. President Donald Trump went after Democratic Rep Ilhan Omar on Thursday, claiming that she married her brother in order to gain her US citizenship. This comes after the House declined to punish Omar over her comments on the Charlie Kirk assassination. The 214-213 roll call shelved a resolution from GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina to censure the Minnesota lawmaker. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to a US court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man, the lawyer representing them in a defamation suit has said. The couple filed the suit in July against Candace Owens, a right-wing influencer, and her business, alleging continuing defamatory attacks against them to boost the profile of her media platform, gain more audience, and make money. Owens said last year she would “stake [her] entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man” named Jean-Michel Trogneux, and has since doubled down on the false claim, including in an eight-part podcast series... Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her team are positioning her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation. Ocasio-Cortez's 2028 decision could shake up the presidential race or the Senate's leadership. A fellow New Yorker, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, is up for re-election in 2028. A Senate race between Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez, 35, would be a generational clash pitting the Democratic Party's leading traditionalist against its star insurgent progressive. This year, Ocasio-Cortez — widely known as AOC — has campaigned across the country and in parts of New York State far from her Bronx and Queens district, all while investing millions to grow her already formidable online presence. She has also brought in some former senior advisers to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to bolster her operation. Ocasio-Cortez hasn't made any decision about her future. But her team is working to give her choices... Hours after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, mortgage rates ticked up 9 basis points. Why did that happen? And will mortgage rates continue to climb from here? While this trend might seem counterintuitive, the jump in mortgage rates was relatively small and driven by how financial markets are assessing the central bank’s next move, economists told MarketWatch. And it wasn’t unprecedented. In fact, MarketWatch wrote about this exact trend occurring last year, after the Fed’s jumbo 50 basis-point rate cut in September 2024... Seven northeastern U.S. states, including New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, have banded together to form a new public health coalition that will make its own vaccine recommendations in response to the Trump administration's changes to federal vaccine policy. The effort, called the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, resembles a similar collective of California and three other western states known as the West Coast Health Alliance, which issued its own vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that went further than the federal government's latest guidelines...
#2 FCC Chair Brendan Carr Suggests ‘The View’ Could Be Investigated - Lindsay Kornick for Fox News, Vigilant Fox, Brendan Carr, Soldier, RubyFlower/TheBulwark, 99% Problems, and Gene Bryant on X
#3 Turning Point USA Appoints Erika Kirk CEO After Charlie Kirk Assassination - Michael Williams for CNN, Fox News, Tyler Bowyer, The Turning Point USA, matt, Natalie Jean, Beisner, and Nick Sortor on X
#4 Trump vs Ilhan Omar: POTUS’ Revives ‘Married Her Brother for Citizenship’ Claim - Yash Nitish Bajaj for Hindustan Times, Trump War Room, Brick Suit, Libs of TikTok, C3/Aggie Vet, and Nick Sortor on X
#5 Macrons to Submit Scientific Evidence to US Court to Prove Brigitte Was Not Born a Man - Jon Henley for The Guardian, Pop Base, Oli London, New York Post (community note), The Redheaded Libertarian, Danielle Tousi, and Devon Stack/Leading Report on X
#6 AOC Eyes 2028 Presidential Run - Alex Thompson for Axios, Cryptid Politics, Yashar Ali, New York Post, Glenn Beck, Acyn/Conversorum, and Charlie Gross on X
#7 Why Mortgage Rates Are Actually Going up After the Fed Cut Interest Rates - Aarthi Swaminathan for Market Watch, Jeff Bulman, Drmikemyers, Braiden Shaw, Nathan Young, and Dan in the Dirt/QE Infinity on X
#8 Texas A&M President Resigning Following Backlash Over Video of Gender Identity Discussion in Classroom - Shawna Mizelle and Doug Myers for CBS News, 629 KCJJ, lynn, Newsweek, MR AIRBORNE, and Jimbo Slice on X
Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Welsh, the president of Texas A&M University, will resign Friday in the wake of criticism over the fallout from the release earlier this month of a video that showed a student confronting a professor over class curriculum surrounding gender identity. "President Welsh is a man of honor who has led Texas A&M with selfless dedication," Chancellor Glenn Hegar said in a statement announcing the resignation. "We are grateful for his service and contributions. At the same time, we agree that now is the right moment to make a change and to position Texas A&M for continued excellence in the years ahead." Welsh last week fired the professor, later identified to CBS News Texas as Melissa McCoul, amid political backlash from Texas lawmakers over the video, and also demoted two high-ranking officials at Texas A&M University — the College of Arts and Sciences dean and the head of the English Department...
#9 Northeast US States Form Health Alliance in Response to Federal Vaccine Limits - Joseph Ax for Reuters, nychealthy, Dr. Lucky Tran, Governor Phil Murphy, CT Public Health, Mass. Public Health, Jessica Wood, and Governor Kathy Hochul on X
#10 Big Pharma’s Greatest Fear: The Vaccine Study They Tried to Bury - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Robin Monotti/Samantha Woodford, Etelka/Ron Johnson, LCHF Matt/Maryanne Demasi, PhD, Rocky Mountain Voice, Nicholas Hulscher and VJP CanAmer on X
The largest childhood vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study in U.S. history was discussed in Washington, D.C., on September 9, 2025, at the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Chaired by Senator Ron Johnson, the never-before-discussed study, completed in 2020, was lead-authored by Dr. Marcus Zervos of Henry Ford Health. A regular recipient of funding from Big Pharma heavyweights, Zervos embarked on the study after speaking with Aaron Siri, Esq., lead attorney for the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and ICAN CEO Del Bigtree, who challenged him that, if he is right and vaccines are indeed safe, the analysis would be a way to silence the “anti-vaxxers.” Sounds like a great plan, right?
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