The Paramount comics, Colbert and Stewart, are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal: Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear - "'I am offended,' Colbert said in his monologue Monday night. 'I don’t know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company. But, just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16 million would help.'"
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026: The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million settlement paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.
The end of Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ has implications beyond late-night TV: The comedian has criticized CBS parent company Paramount Global for settling its lawsuit with President Donald Trump.
What made ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ special, in six clips Colbert, whose long-running show will be canceled in May, managed to break through the trappings of late-night TV to charm and surprise his audience
In Epstein Case, Follow the Money, Democratic Senator Says: Senator Ron Wyden has found that four banks waited until Mr. Epstein’s arrest on federal charges to flag $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions. Mr. Wyden wants the documents made public.
The best TV show I’ve seen in a decade: Give ‘Adolescence’ all the Emmys.
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists: A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
Activists try to preserve IRS’s Direct File now that Trump has ended it: The program offered free tax filing for two years under Biden. Republicans shut it down, but a small group hopes to keep the code around for a future administration to use.
Israel strikes the Gaza church the pope used to call nightly, killing 3 The Rev. Gabriel Romanelli of the Church of the Holy Family used to speak every night with Pope Francis before the pontiff’s death.
In reversal, senators advance FBI’s planned move to Reagan Building in D.C.: Maryland leaders tried to prohibit the FBI from financing the relocation with money designated for a suburban campus in Greenbelt --- but Sen. Lisa Murkowski changed her stance.
D.C. protesters try a different tactic for spreading their message: Umbrellas
Attorney General Bondi expected to seek release of Epstein grand jury testimony The attorney general said she would ask a court Friday to unseal pertinent grand jury records. That’s a portion of what would be included in the Justice Department’s broader investigative file.
America, meet the Trump-Mamdani voter: Yes, such a person exists. Should anyone be surprised?
Kansas City poured millions into a grocery store. It still may close. More cities and states are experimenting with the concept of city-owned grocery stores, but these experiments often don’t account for social issues. - "At a community meeting last year, Pierson played videos of security incidents so graphic he gave a warning in advance — a naked woman parading through the store throwing bags of chips to the ground, another person urinating in the vestibule and a couple fornicating on the lawn of the library in broad daylight.
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"Part of the problem is the city’s lack of a jail, Young said. The left-leaning council closed the previous facility in 2009 as a cost-saving measure — a move the Kansas City Star has called a '$250 million mistake' — and so people arrested for minor crimes are quickly released instead of being held in rural counties miles away."
Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts: Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a temporary effect due to a drop in sulphate pollution
Everyone’s the hero of their own story: How to comprehend the incomprehensible - "If your goal is to actually change someone’s mind — not just to feel like you won, or produce a nice YouTube clip, but to actually change their mind — then you should be operating in the conversation as if you’re talking to the hero of the story, who is basically good but has been misled."
EU Approves 18th Round of Sanctions Against Russia
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