The Trump administration’s attempt to silence Jimmy Kimmel appears to have backfired. The host’s broadcast return to late-night television on Tuesday brought in 6.2 million views, four timeshis usual audience, according to data from Nielsen. Meanwhile, Kimmel’s monologue on YouTube has reached 21 million views and counting, making it his …
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President Donald Trump came within a hair’s width of death on Tuesday, when an escalator at the United Nations headquarters briefly stalled in an act of intentional sabotage, leaving him exposed to the mercy of a theoretical assassin’s bullet. At least that’s how Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are imagining …
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Sinclair has ended its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, announcing the show will resume airing on its ABC affiliates Friday night, Sept. 26. In a statement, the company said, “Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience. We …
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Jimmy Kimmel acknowledged the threats made by Donald Trump after his late-night show returned on Tuesday night, describing the president as an “Eighties movie-style bully.” On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel did a line-by-line takedown of Trump’s Truth Social post, which suggested he planned to sue ABC …
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While the United States is mired in one Donald Trump controversy after another, much of the rest of the industrialized world is steadily moving into the future. Other nations can’t ignore America, but they can try to figure out new ways to proceed with less American involvement, and many of …
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Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet: “Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in …
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As if Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late-night wasn’t enough, South Park put FCC chair Brendan Carr through a grueling gauntlet of slapstick pain in its latest episode, Wednesday, Sept. 24. The episode isn’t a direct commentary on how the Trump administration pressured ABC and affiliate owners to preempt Jimmy Kimmel …
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Attorneys representing two groups of Disney shareholders are demanding records related to the company’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration. As Variety notes, the letters were sent to Disney CEO Bob Iger on behalf of the American Federation of Teachers (which is affiliated with the …
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For those keeping track of the Bruce Springsteen musical-historical complex, 2025 has brought one box set of shelved material, a feature film about the making of Nebraska, a reunion with past and present E Street Band members at a Born to Run symposium in New Jersey, and two books on …
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Jimmy Kimmel Live returned last night after a week-long suspension, much to the delight of the general public. One person who was not a fan, however, was Donald Trump. The president responded to Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback with a rant on Truth Social, declaring that he intends to sue the late-night …
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