Thursday, September 18
Headlines
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ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments. The network said that Jimmy Kimmel Live would be “pre-empted indefinitely” following backlash over comments the host made on the show that the “MAGA gang” was trying to characterize Kirk’s alleged murderer as “anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” ABC’s decision came after Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened to take action against ABC affiliate stations and after station owner Nexstar—which owns 28 ABC affiliates—said it objected to the statements and would show different programming.
Things just got worse for Nvidia in China. The world’s most valuable company keeps finding itself caught in the geopolitical tussle between the US and China, with multiple news outlets reporting yesterday that Beijing’s cybersecurity regulator told major Chinese tech companies not to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chip. The less powerful chip was designed specifically for China to address US security concerns over the sale of its more powerful models there. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he was “disappointed” but that the company could only service a market “if a country wants us.” This comes after Chinese antitrust regulators said this week amid trade talks with the US that Nvidia had violated its anti-monopoly rules. And Nvidia has also had to contend with US export bans on chips that limit its sales to China.
StubHub slumped in its trading debut. The ticket reseller finally had its twice-delayed IPO yesterday, pricing its stock at $23.50 and raising $800 million for the company. It began public trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $25.35, and initially popped, but then proved not to be the hottest ticket in town, dropping 6% to around $22. The company trading below its IPO price comes as a check on investor enthusiasm after a streak of hot market debuts from Klarna, Gemini, Figma, and Circle, which followed a long period with very few IPOs amid economic uncertainty.—AR
Robert Reich
A president shouldn't be allowed to use defamation to suppress criticism of him. Big businesses likely to surrender to this shouldn't be allowed to buy major media.
Friends,
Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for, well, reporting on Trump.
Rather than charging the Times with any specific libelous act, Trump’s lawsuit is just another of his angry bloviations.
The lawsuit says he’s moving against "one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual ‘mouthpiece’ for the Radical Left Democrat Party.” And so on.
At least he sued The Wall Street Journal’s parent company for something specific — reporting Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein (which Trump continues to deny even though it showed up in the Epstein files).
Last year, Trump sued ABC and its host George Stephanopoulos for having said that Trump was found liable for rape rather than "sexual abuse" in the civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll. The network settled for $16 million.
At A Glance
North America's best airports, ranked by travelers.
Winners from the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards.
Official dictionary definitions for Gen Alpha slang.
How photography helped fight poverty during the Great Depression.
NFL fan runs a mile for every point his team loses by.
"The Baby-Sitters Club" to get stage musical adaptation.
Ancient Egyptian gold bracelet goes missing from museum.
Finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Clickbait: Where do hands come from? In part, our butts.
Historybook: George Washington lays first cornerstone for the US Capitol (1793); New York Times founded (1851); Baseball Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg born (1959); Jimi Hendrix dies (1970); Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies (2020).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Justin Bieber joins Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G as headliners announced for 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 10-19); see complete festival lineup (More)
> League Phase of the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League kicks off; see complete schedule (More) | Dallas Wings' Paige Bueckers named 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year (More)
> Terence Crawford-Canelo Álvarez fight hauls in 41 million viewers on Netflix (More) | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 19-year-old American record in 400-meters at Track and Field World Championships (More)
Science & Technology
> OpenAI to launch ChatGPT experience with parental controls and age-prediction technology as company faces federal probe into chatbots' effects on kids (More)
> Researchers generate electricity by bending salt-infused ice, pointing to the modified ice's potential as a renewable energy source (More)
> Divers recover artifacts from nearly 400-foot-deep wreck of Britannic, Titanic's sister ship, over a century after luxury cruise liner sank in Aegean Sea (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.1%) as traders wait for Federal Reserve's interest rate decision today (More)
> President Donald Trump extends deadline to Dec. 16 for TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to divest the platform's US operations and avoid nationwide ban (More)
> Microsoft to invest $30B in AI infrastructure, operations in the UK through 2028 as part of plans to build the country’s largest supercomputer (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder appears virtually in court, is charged with aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and other counts (More) | FBI Director Kash Patel discusses Kirk shooting, Jeffrey Epstein case before Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday; hearing before House committee is today (More)
> President Donald Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, Penguin Random House over articles in the lead-up to the 2024 election, which Trump says were intended to harm his reputation, candidacy (More)
> New York judge tosses state terrorism charges against man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Capital Punishment - Death Penalty
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Twenty-seven states have CAPITAL PUNISHMENT which is the DEATH PENALTY.
Do you believe in Capital Punishment?
No___
Yes___
Maybe___
In Some Cases___
Do we as human beings who have been given humanity by our CREATOR, have the right to take another person's life, if they took a life or multiple lives???
Most of us struggle with that question when the subject of Capital Punishment is raised.
However, death under certain circumstances is completely permissible as long as the governing body, says it is ok.
For instance...
Congress approved us entering WWI and WWII, which gave us permission to kill as many of the enemy as we needed to without consequences and without being held accountable for killing innocent women and children...
Of course, in WWII, this including us dropping two ATOMIC BOMBS on Japan and killing millions of innocent people.
NO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ISSUED for those killings... although some questioned if that was absolutely necessary to end the war.
Personally, I don't believe we have to right to kill anyone, although, none of my family has been killed by anyone, so I might feel differently if that were to happen.
Primordial Earth Was Missing Materials Critical For Life, Study Shows
Artist's impression of ancient Earth. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Francis Reddy)
The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies of the Solar System, only Earth has a dense atmosphere, liquid water on its surface, and the organic chemistry that supports life.
However, these conditions did not exist billions of years ago when Earth was still young. While the nebula from which the planets formed was rich in volatile elements, the high temperatures in the inner Solar System largely prevented them from condensing, leaving them mostly in a gaseous state.
As a result, these elements were not incorporated into the solid rocky materials from which the inner planets formed. Only celestial bodies that formed farther from the Sun retained the substances essential to life, which raises questions about how and when they were introduced to Earth.
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