Tuesday, September 23
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Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air tonight. Nearly a week after Disney yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air indefinitely amid backlash over the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s accused murderer, the late-night show will return to ABC tonight. The company said yesterday it had made the decision to pull the show “because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” and that it had “spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy” before deciding to bring the show back. While President Trump and some conservatives praised Disney’s choice to remove the show after the head of the FCC and affiliate station owners took issue with Kimmel’s remarks, many in the entertainment business, Democrats, and even some Republicans criticized it as censorship, especially given the pressure from the FCC. ABC affiliate-owner Sinclair said yesterday it would continue to preempt the program amid “ongoing” discussions with ABC about the show’s return.
Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI for data centers. Talk about customer service: The chipmaker has agreed to sink up to $100 billion into the ChatGPT-maker to help it expand its AI infrastructure. But Nvidia is not just looking out for a fellow AI giant; the deal also ensures that Nvidia is a “preferred” supplier for OpenAI for chips and networking gear, the companies said. The investment will happen progressively as the infrastructure gets built, with the intention of OpenAI setting up data centers with a capacity of 10 gigawatts of power (which is more than it takes to power 8 million homes, per the Wall Street Journal) and using Nvidia’s advanced chips for OpenAI’s models. “This is a giant project,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC.
SCOTUS will mull the president’s power to fire independent agency officials. For now, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump can fire the Federal Trade Commission’s sole remaining Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, while it considers her legal challenge to her ouster (the liberal justices dissented). In weighing the case, the high court will hear arguments in December over whether a 90-year-old precedent barring the president from axing agency officials without cause should be overturned for infringing on the executive branch’s power.—AR
Robert Reich
The real reason Disney restored Kimmel’s late-night show
Friends,
ABC says “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to the airwaves Tuesday — less than a week after Trump henchman Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said on a podcast that Kimmel’s remarks were part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people” and that the FCC would have “do this the easy way or the hard way” — suggesting that either ABC and its parent company, Walt Disney, remove Kimmel, or the FCC would revoke ABC’s broadcast license.
Why Walt Disney Company’s turnaround? It limply explained today:
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”
At A Glance
American history, culture, and progress in 25 charts.
Where does the US get its goods, from perfume to oil? (w/quiz)
Why most cartoon characters only have four fingers.
The longest airplane route will be 29 hours.
We've entered dragonfly migration season.
Young people want wealth before marriage.
The semicolon is dying.
Why you can't break spaghetti into two pieces. (via YouTube)
Clickbait: Scientists made a new tomato called the Scarlet Sunrise.
Historybook: American civil rights activist Victoria Woodhull born (1838); Nintendo is founded as a playing card company (1889); Musician Ray Charles born (1930); Neurologist Sigmund Freud dies (1939); Hurricane Jeanne kills more than 3,000 people in Haiti (2004).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Las Vegas Aces' A'ja Wilson becomes first player to be named WNBA MVP four times (More) | WNBA playoff semifinals kick off; see latest bracket and schedule (More)
> Bernie Parent, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie, dies at age 80 (More) | Brett James, Grammy-winning songwriter, dies in plane crash at age 57 (More) | Sonny Curtis, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, dies at age 88 (More)
> Team USA women and men win 4x100m relays to break record for most national gold medals (16) at a World Track and Field Championships (More) | Cal Raleigh hits 58th home run to pass Ken Griffey Jr. for the Seattle Mariners franchise record (More)
Science & Technology
> US health regulators green light accelerated approval for the first treatment for Barth syndrome, an ultrarare condition affecting cells' ability to produce energy (More)
> New study finds pancreatic alpha cells naturally produce GLP-1, the hormone mimicked by new weight loss drugs (More) | How semaglutides work (1440 Topics)
> Archaeologists uncover 1,600-year-old copper coin stash in underground tunnels in northern Israel, dating to the last Jewish rebellion under Roman rule (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Friday (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq +0.7%) with all three indexes reaching all-time highs (More)
> President Donald Trump announces $100K fees for new H-1B applicants, up from $2K to $5K per applicant; Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and other finance and technology companies use the visa to recruit workers from abroad (More)
> Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell are part of the group interested in buying TikTok, President Donald Trump reveals; Ellison's Oracle would handle data and security, Americans will sit on six out of seven board seats (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signs law banning the use of face masks by most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents (More)
> US naval forces lethally strike a fourth vessel accused of smuggling drugs from the Caribbean (More) | President Donald Trump says he ousted the US prosecutor investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), nominates a White House aide to replace him (More)
> A cyberattack targeting check-in systems at European airports causes dozens of flight delays in the UK, Germany, and Belgium (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
The Amazing Democrats
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What amazes me about what is going on in this country is hearing the Democrats tell people who will listen to them that the economy is worse off today than it was during the Biden administration.
It also bothers me that the Democrats care more about the illegal immigrants than they do about their own voting constituents, when they say there is little to no crime in the big cities and that illegal immigrants should have the same rights as Americans.
What I think that is going on is the Democrats are still basing their future on HATING TRUMP and every single program that he supports. HATING TRUMP is not government policy that will move this country forward.
The Democrats have become a group of people who accuse the other party of doing what they are doing and since the MAINSTREAM MEDIA leans liberal, they too are supporting this effort.
The Democrats NEED A PLATFORM that offers more than hating Trump or opposing whatever Trump wants.
If Trump wants low taxes, then the Democrats must want higher taxes.
- If Trump wants a strong military, then the Democrats must want a weak military.
- If Trump wants promotions based upon MERIT, then the Democrats must want promotions based upon color or ethnicity.
- If Trump wants to stimulate businesses for investment and growth, then the Democrats must not want to invest or grow.
- If Trump wants to remove all illegal immigrants, then the Democrats must want illegal immigrants to enter the USA.
Even though they have not stated it, think about what the Democrats might want just because they oppose Trump...
Webb Telescope Spots Possible Signs of Atmosphere on “Goldilocks” Exoplanet
This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years
from Earth. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech
JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water.
Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a planet located 41 light-years from Earth that may possess an atmosphere. This planet orbits within the “habitable zone,” the region around a star where temperatures allow liquid water to remain on the surface of a rocky body. Water is essential because it is one of the fundamental requirements for sustaining life.
If upcoming observations verify these results, this would represent the first time a rocky planet in a star’s habitable zone has been confirmed to hold an atmosphere. The research is detailed in two studies published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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