Kirk Killing Sparks Fierce US Free Speech Debate For Americans, the words are practically sacred: the First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech. International Business Times · Sep 19, 2025
Eying Bottom Line, US Media Giants Bow To Trump The suspension by Disney-owned ABC of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is the latest surrender by a US media giant to pressure from the Trump administration, putting the bottom line over free speech. International Business Times · Sep 19, 2025
Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. The Conversation · Sep 19, 2025
Abolish the FCC The Trump Administration's recent abuses of the agency's powers lend weight to longstanding libertarian arguments for abolishing it, going back to Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 article. Reason · Sep 19, 2025
Avoiding sanctions: Takeaways from AP's report on a secret deal between Russia and Vietnam Russia is a key supplier of military goods to Vietnam, providing it with fighter jets, tanks and ships The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by The Associated Press The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
Trump administration adds more questions to citizenship test IN FULL The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
Trump news at a glance: president threatens other TV networks amid Jimmy Kimmel fallout Donald Trump suggests networks that carry critical coverage should lose licenses, amid calls for boycott of ABC owner Disney – key US politics stories from 18 September 2025 The Guardian - US · Sep 19, 2025
What is antifa, the left-wing movement Trump calls a ‘terrorist organization’? IN FULL The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
FBI sniper testifies that hiding spot near golf course was ideal place for man to shoot Trump An FBI sniper testified about the effectiveness of a hiding spot chosen by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2025
Bob Iger got it right suspending Jimmy Kimmel: It’s what Walt would have done He refused to apologize. Guaranteed First Amendment legal rights are different from a private enterprise exercising editorial judgment. Fortune · Sep 19, 2025
Senate Republicans squirm over FCC comments on Jimmy Kimmel The reactions create another remarkable split screen in the age of Trump. Axios · Sep 18, 2025
Donald Trump’s already bored with Jimmy Kimmel and teases his next victim If comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s abrupt dismissal did not faze you enough, Donald Trump‘s latest statement listing his next targets should ring in your ears like a final alarm. The Mary Sue · Sep 18, 2025
‘An hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons’: Donald Trump makes a deeply unhinged case for why he’s working with the Taliban We're working with the Taliban? We Got This Covered · Sep 18, 2025
The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2025 3 members of federal control board in Puerto Rico sue Trump and others for illegal firings Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging their firings were illegal
Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2025 Toddler is passed onto Channel dinghy as hundreds more migrants risk lives to reach UK despite 'one in, one out' deportations More migrants risk lives to reach UK as an Eritrean man is deported to France on Heathrow flight under ‘one in, one out’ deal
The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2025 Democrats express concern over Trump’s actions against critics IN FULL
Pedestrian.tv · Sep 18, 2025 Jimmy Kimmel Given List Of Demands By Network To Fulfil If He Hopes To Return To Air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is suspended indefinitely, with ABC’s largest affiliate issuing a list of demands before the show can return.
Benzinga · Sep 18, 2025 Tesla's Train Tracks Problem: 'You'd Think They'd Be Able To Reliably Detect This Stuff' As Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) looks to launch autonomous vehicles and its robotaxis in select markets, the company could face setbacks with recent reports showing the vehicles struggling with stopping at railroad crossings.
International Business Times · Sep 18, 2025 UN Security Council Votes On Reimposing Iran Nuclear Sanctions The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on reimposing deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program.
The Mary Sue · Sep 18, 2025 ‘Nothing they can’t do’: Tucker Carlson sees Donald Trump using the ‘Charlie Kirk card’ and calls it what it is The death of far-right activist Charlie Kirk has unleashed a storm of competing narratives, but none more toxic than the partisan spin driven hardest by Donald Trump and his allies. Thankfully, Tucker Carlson has broken ranks to call his own party out on it.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2025 Trump tells Britain to ‘call out the military’ to control its borders US president ends second state visit with warning that illegal migration could destroy the UK
Barchart · Sep 18, 2025 Soybeans Slide Lower Ahead of Trump/Xi Call on Friday Soybeans posted Thursday losses of 6 to 7 cents across most contracts. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price as down 6 1/4 cents at $9.60 1/2. Soymeal futures were 90 cents to $2 lower in the front months on Thursday. Soy Oil futures were down another 36 to 67...
The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2025 ‘Standard format for every budding despot’: Democrats denounce Trump’s crackdown on critics like Jimmy Kimmel But minority party has few tools with which to curtail Trump’s free speech clampdowns
We Got This Covered · Sep 18, 2025 ‘This is the President’s unreviewable discretion’: Trump begs Supreme Court to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Why does the president ask for this so often?