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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is threatening to take action against ABC over on-air claims made by comedian Jimmy Kimmel about the man suspected of assassinating Charlie Kirk last week.
Kimmel said in his monologue Monday, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them – and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, however, is reported by family members to have moved to the left politically in recent months, and Utah officials released texts to his transgender roommate in which he offers the reason he shot and killed the popular activist who clearly was in the MAGA camp.
"I had enough of [Kirk's] hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out," Robinson said.
As reported at the Gateway Pundit, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared on "The Benny Show" and told host Benny Johnson that he may take action against ABC and Kimmel.
"This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead," Carr said.
"They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. There are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this."
Continued Carr, "The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter.
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An ABC News reporter on Wednesday expressed "deep regret" for the way he portrayed "very touching" and "intimate" text messages between Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover Lance Twiggs, but the journalist is still being shredded by media colleagues and Americans at large.
On Tuesday, ABC's Matt Gutman reported he was not sure "if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages" that were "very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn't expect – a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him 'my love.' And 'I want to protect you, my love.'"
"So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And then, on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner. So a very interesting and, as Pierre said, riveting press conference."
Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, noted Gutman "doubled down" ten minutes later after after his initial report on ABC News Live, as Gutman said: "It's heartbreaking on so many levels, Kyra. Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands … [O]n the other hand, there is this duality of a very a portrait of a very human person, a very human experience from this entire family … the kid who had got a 34 out of 36 on the ACT, who had a 4.0 …
"I don't think I've ever experienced a press conference in which we've read text messages that are A, so fulsome, so robust, so apparently, allegedly self-incriminating and yet, on the other hand, so touching – right – with the suspect reaching out to his roommate, who was allegedly his boyfriend, who we understand, you know, identified as male at birth, now identifies as female.
"And the terminology he used, he was trying to protect him. He kept calling him 'my love.' 'My reason for doing this is to protect you,' you know, but also asking him to delete the messages and not speak to law enforcement. So there's this, this heartbreaking duality that we're seeing very tragically playing out here."
Wednesday morning, Gutman expressed regret on X, stating: "Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk – a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue – and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference.
"I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear. But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk's family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired."
Charlie Hurt of Fox News was not buying Gutman's comments Wednesday, explaining on the air: "When you're covering a very serious event like a murder trial or a hearing for a murder trial of an assassination, you go with a certain mindset. And the mindset is one that is very serious, it's very factual based, and you are aware of the human casualty that is going on here and you are respectful of what you're covering.
"And the idea that this guy is going to walk into cover this story and have sort of these fantasies, these fairy-tale fantasies, play out in his mind, I think goes to the heart of the lack of seriousness, the lack of gravity that these people approach a story like this. It boggles my mind. I don't understand it."
Hurt concluded: "I don't know how you get from the point from where you should be to where this guy ended up. It is appalling, it's disgusting. I guess the only maybe saving grace to it all is that I think that the media has so befouled themselves, they've so lost all credibility that I think a lot of people just sort of may have heard that and … shrugged and thought: 'Well, good thing I don't listen to them anymore.'"
Other comments from X users directly responding to Gutman's expression of regret include:
"'Touching' was the word you used to describe the messages of someone that just assassinated a father. You're also a father of 2 children, Libby & Ben. Your children aren't safe with someone who thinks a public assassination is 'touching.' You should be fired."
"Matt, you attempted to write a love story for a murderous monster in order to appease your left-leaning brain. There's nothing 'touching' about any of it. If you can't see how disgusting that was, then you really need to reevaluate your life."
"You twisted the assassination of Charlie Kirk into a gay man 'defending' his gay lover. You made it seem like a bitter love story you freak. You're not going to worm out of this."
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A Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, has stunned with his vitriol against a Christian resident of his city who simply objected to promoting violence.
Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud scolded resident Edward "Ted" Barham, a Christian, "Although you live here, you are not welcome here."
Barham had objected to renaming some intersections in Dearborn after Osama Siblani, Arab American News publisher who has promoted Hezbollah and Hamas, both Middle East organizations that have inflicted death, destruction and terror on Americans.
Hammoud issued a dangerous suggestion for Barham to not see the signs.
"The best suggestion I have for you is to not drive on Warren Avenue or close your eyes while you're doing it. His name is up there and I spoke at a ceremony celebrating it because he's done a lot for his community," Hammoud claimed.
He then turned to a personal attack on his city's resident, accusing Barham of being "a bigot, and you are racist, and you're an Islamophobe. Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city."
Barham had explained Siblani is "a promoter of Hezbollah and Hamas. … He talks about how the blood of the martyrs irrigates the land of Palestine … whether we are in Michigan and whether we are in Yemen. Believe me, everyone should fight within his means. They will fight with stones, others will fight with guns, others fight with planes, drones, and rockets."
Fox News reported the signs actually were approved by the Wayne County commission, as the road is a county road, but the signs are inside Dearborn.
Barham compared the signs to naming a road "Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street," and said the "honor" for Siblani was "provocative."
Fox explained, "Dearborn, the city with America's highest-percentage Muslim population, has long navigated debate over cultural and political identity. For many average residents, the moment captured in City Hall begged the question of whether elected officials are willing to listen to all voices or only those they choose to celebrate."
WND reported only days ago that adjacent Dearborn Heights was forced into an embarrassing backtrack when officials announced a badge for police officers that said "Dearborn Heights Police" in Arabic.
The scandal even caught the attention of the late Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, who was assassinated a week ago at a free speech event in Utah.
After an interval of only two days, Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi went to social media to backtrack.
"On Wednesday, September 3rd, information was disseminated from the Dearborn Heights Police Department regarding a digital mock-up of the DHPD patch bearing the department name translated in Arabic script," his Facebook post said. "The design mock-up idea showed the words 'Dearborn Heights Police' in Arabic and was said to be optional. The patch effort was an internal discussion among some within the police department which was not put forth for consensus or further review."
But, he said, "Should efforts like this be formally undertaken to make any changes to the Police uniform, it is our goal to include multiple PD stakeholders for a larger conversation, to ensure all are included in the discussion. As we are one PD, each individual's uniform represents the DHPD as a whole, and therefore merits the review and input of all. At this time, this patch addition remains an idea and should NOT have been presented as an official prototype."
Dearborn Heights has a population of around 39% Middle Eastern or North African as of the most recent census, but triggered Republican Congressman Randy Fine with its announcement. He called it an example of "Sharia Law" coming to Michigan.
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Five police officers are down in Pennsylvania after a barrage of gunfire erupted as they were serving a warrant.
Reports say a gunman is dead, and three officers have died. Another officer was reported in "grave" condition and another in critical. Names were not released immediately.
A York County deputy also was injured, officials reported.
Federal officials said Washington's resources were being offered to help, and FBI chief Kash Patel said, "Our prayers are with the officers, their families, and the entire York County community."
Officers reportedly were serving a warrant when an alleged suspect fired on them, NBC reported.
"The alleged shooter is believed to be dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound, the sources added," according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Nearby schools and hospitals were locked down.
One witness told a local broadcaster that at least 30 shots were fired.
The Daily Mail said a witness reported an officer lying in the middle of a road.
"More police were still rolling and they were coming from all directions. It wasn't long til I heard a helicopter."
Gov. Josh Shapiro said he was en route to the scene.
The Mail noted the Mexican Consulate said it was monitoring the situation but it was unclear why the consulate was involved.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, "'We are working with our interagency partners and will share more information as soon as it becomes available. We are praying for the victims and their families. This violence must stop."
"Violence against law enforcement is a scourge on our society and never acceptable," Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement on X. "Pray for the officers involved."
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Ben and Jerry's long has been known for being a company that adopts and promotes leftist ideologies like abortion, the LGBT beliefs, and such. And blasts those who disagree.
It also, under its corporate Unilever ownership, makes and sells ice cream.
Its founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, felt so strongly about their ability to influence people with their ideologies that when they wanted cash, some $236 million, they installed in an agreement with purchaser Unilever provisions for them to continue.
Apparently, they failed to make that secure enough.
And now Cohen has posted a letter to fans on behalf of Greenfield announcing Jerry is walking away from the company, and "it's profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone."
He continued with his complaint that he isn't allowed to bash President Donald Trump enough.
"It's happening at a time when our country's current administration is attacking civil rights, voting rights, the rights of immigrants, women, and the LGBTQ community."
Actually, those "attacks" are the Trump administration's goals of reducing discrimination produced by special privileges for minorities, fair and secure elections, a secure border, and more.
He revealed the company always was there to push political and ideological agendas.
"It was always about more than just ice cream; it was a way to spread love and invite others into the fight for equity, justice and a better world. Coming to the conclusion that this is no longer possible at Ben & Jerry's means I can no longer remain part of Ben & Jerry's."
A Fox affiliate report reveals the fight has been developing for some time, and it's over the political agenda held by Cohen and Greenfield, and the corporate owner's interest in its finances.
Greenfield wrote, "Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared humanity has never been more important, and yet Ben & Jerry's has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power."
Further, the London-based Unilever, which also owns Dove soap and Hellmann's mayonnaise, is spinning off its ice cream holdings into a new company called the Magnum Ice Cream Company.
An official with that company said it is grateful to Cohen and Greenfield for their years of work, but it was "not aligned with his viewpoint," the report said.
"We disagree with his perspective and have sought to engage both co-founders in a constructive conversation on how to strengthen Ben & Jerry's powerful values-based position in the world," the spokesperson told the outlet.
Ben & Jerry's recently claimed that Unilever unlawfully removed its CEO, David Stever, and the founders recently sued Unilever for refusing to let the company release a social media post naming "issues it believed would be challenged during President Donald Trump's term."
Its agenda for that statement included minimum wages, universal health care, abortion and climate change, which was global warming until the warming essentially stopped.
When Ben & Jerry's announced, as part of its anti-Israel ideology, it would stop serving Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Unilever responded by selling those assets to another company.
Social media commenters pointed out that the activism apparently had produced for the company "disappointing sales."
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Disney, which owns ABC, is pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show Wednesday night and into the future "indefinitely," a response to the TV host's wildly inaccurate statement Monday about Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk last week.
"'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will be preempted indefinitely," a Disney spokesperson told Fox News.
Nexstar Media Group, which owns hundreds of television stations, announced earlier it would preempt Kimmel's show on its ABC affiliates starting Wednesday night "for the foreseeable future" and would replace it with other programming.
"Mr. Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located," Nexstar's broadcasting chief Andrew Alford said in a press release.
"Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue," the statement continued.
Earlier Wednesday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to take action against ABC after Kimmel's remarks.
Kimmel said in his monologue Monday, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them – and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, however, is reported by family members to have moved to the left politically in recent months, and Utah officials released texts to his transgender roommate in which he offers the reason he shot and killed the popular activist who clearly was in the MAGA camp.
President Donald Trump reacted to Kimmel's ouster, saying: "Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.
"Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that's possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!"
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In an interview Wednesday, former President Barack Obama discussed the assassination of Charlie Kirk, pointing to the rhetoric of President Donald Trump and some of his administration for contributing to and normalizing political vitriol in America.
Speaking at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania, Obama said Trump and his allies calling their opponents "vermin" and "enemies … speaks to a broader problem."
Obama condemned some in "authority" for trying "to silence discussion" in the nation after Kirk's murder.
"I didn't know Charlie Kirk, Obama said. "I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong – but that doesn't negate that what happened was a tragedy, and I mourn for his family."
In response, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement: "Obama used every opportunity to sow division and pit Americans against each other, and following his presidency more Americans felt Obama divided the country than felt he united it."
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Wednesday cut interest rates one-quarter of a point, establishing the benchmark at 4% to 4.25%, after blocking President Donald Trump's economic agenda – building back America's business interests, manufacturing and expansion, for months.
The Dow Jones Industrial Averages, which had been percolating in the mid to upper 45,000 range, promptly surged past 46,000 and actually closed the day there.
The reduction was the first from the controversial Fed operations since 2024.
Officials did signal the possibility for two more cuts later this year, reports confirmed.
"Recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year," said the Federal Open Market Committee. "Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remains low. Inflation has moved up and remains somewhat elevated."
Stephen Miran, Trump's newest Fed appointee, had wanted a half point cut. And Lisa Cook, under investigation on allegations of mortgage fraud and fighting Trump's decision to fire her, voted with others for the quarter point cut.
The benchmark had been, before Wednesday's announced, at 4.5% to 4.25%.
Interest rates had exploded to more than 9% under Joe Biden's tenure in the White House, and Trump has been working to expand America's economic base, return manufacture to its shores, obtain fair international trade agreements and much more while trying to keep inflation low and job creation up. Both of those figures have been moderate in recent assessments.
America's housing industry, which has been stalled because of the interest rates mandated by Fed chief Jerome Powell, could start seeing an increase in activity because of Wednesday's decision.
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The FBI is now investigating the pro-gun Armed Queers SLC, a Salt Lake City group whose transgender leader openly supports violence, for possible connections to alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson.
Ermiya Fanaeian, who worked on Democrat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign, was asked by a reporter: "Some people say that it takes a violent protest to get people to listen. Do you agree or should they remain peaceful?"
"I agree. I absolutely agree," responded Fanaeian, a student at the University of Utah.
"I'm a member of the LGBTQ community and our liberation, our rights came after the Stonewall riots."
"I wouldn't even be able to be a student at this school if it wasn't for a violent riot that took place within a span of three days."
"So I absolutely agree that sometimes violence, protests and really riots and those kinds of loud rebellions must take place for tangible change."
The New York Post reports: "Armed Queers SLC quietly scrubbed its online presence after Kirk was assassinated, but a law enforcement source told The Post that all open-source information on the group was downloaded and handed over to the FBI."
"Fanaeian and Armed Queers SLC are on investigators' radar as the FBI has widened its probe to include a potential 'extended network' that could have aided Robinson in the Sept. 10 sniper attack at Utah Valley University."
Fanaeian was originally an anti-gun activist, having founded the local chapter of March for Our Lives, a group belonging to David Hogg, a well-known activist pushing gun restrictions.
But in 2020, Fanaeian launched the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols "whose mission is to arm LGBTQ people," according to KUER Radio which profiled Fanaeian.
"I used to think that guns were a scary thing," Fanaeian told the public broadcaster. "Back then, I would have agreed with Joe Biden's assertion to take everyone's AR-15s away. And now I own one."
In an interview with the Deseret News that same year, Fanaeian indicated: "The left's idea of a 'gun nut' typically is white men who are upper class and see this as a hobby that will make their egos bigger."
"But the reality is this is a form of empowerment for me."
"As working-class people, we should not be disarmed," Fanaeian said. "There is everlasting violence against LGBTQ people that oftentimes politicians, on whatever side of the aisle, are not addressing, and we need to be able to protect ourselves. And because of that, I came to this understanding that the March for Our Lives goals do not align with my goals."
The Daily Utah Chronicle reported that Fanaeian in 2022 co-founded a new student study group at the University of Utah for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, or PSL, "to teach common socialist ideologies, history, texts and lessons about philosophers such as Karl Marx and Vladmir Lenin."
The inspiration came from "historical communist and socialist revolutionaries of the mid 1900s including Fidel Castro, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
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President Donald Trump is forcefully asserting that former President Joe Biden weaponized the U.S. Justice Department to silence civil rights leader Charlie Kirk and cancel his conservative organization Turning Point USA.
In a late-night post on Truth Social Tuesday, Trump wondered: "Why was the wonderful Turning Point under INVESTIGATION by 'Deranged' Jack Smith and the Corrupt & Incompetent Biden Administration."
"They Weaponized the Justice Department against Sleepy Joe Biden's Political Opponents, including ME!"
The president's remarks were posted only hours Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed files indicating the FBI had subpoenaed 92 Republican-affiliated groups during its "Arctic Frost" election probe into Trump, including Turning Point USA, which was co-founded by Kirk in 2012.
That FBI investigation in 2022 was later given to Special Counsel Smith, who eventually charged Trump for allegedly hiding top-secret files at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and trying to overturn the disputed presidential election of 2020.
"Some examples of the groups the [Christopher] Wray FBI sought to place under political investigation included the Republican National Committee, Republican Attorneys General Association and Trump political groups," Grassley said.
"On that political list was one of Charlie Kirk's groups, Turning Point USA."
Appearing on "Jesse Watters Primetime" Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Biden's FBI was investigating Kirk "to try to intimidate him."
"Charlie had said to me a couple of years ago … 'I think that we are being targeted. I think TPUSA is being targeted … Can you help us?'"
Hawley explained: "This has got to be what he was talking about. And now we know that Joe Biden once again weaponized the FBI to go after his political opponents.
"It's nothing but terrorism. It's an attempt to silence and intimidate. I'm so glad that Charlie was not intimidated right up to the last day that he had on this Earth. That is why he is such a sterling example."
"What Joe Biden did in his administration, we can't ever allow to happen again. You look at the climate they created," Hawley continued.
"We're reaping the fruits of that now. The climate of hate and division and suspicion that they deliberately created for years to try to hold onto power. It's despicable and it's time to turn the page on it."
Turning Point USA has been inundated with more than 54,000 new chapter requests since Kirk was gunned down while speaking in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10.
The surge came in the wake of an appeal by Charlie's widow Erika Kirk. Before her plea, the group had 9,000 college chapters and 1,100 high-school chapters.