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Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late-night shows Thursday using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel.Stewart opted for satire to critique ABC suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely following comments he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Colbert took a more serious approach, calling his suspension “blatant censorship.” Fallon praised Kimmel and vowed to keep doing his show as usual. Then an announcer spoke over him and replaced most of his critiques about President Donald Trump with flattery.Their guests the day after Kimmel’s suspension which also came two months after CBS said it would cancel Colbert’s show varied widely. Fallon’s guests were actor Jude Law, journalist Tom Llamas and actor and singer Jonathan Groff none of whom addressed Kimmel’s situation.Stewart and Colbert interviewed guests who could address censorship concerns raised by Kimmel’s suspension. Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa spoke to Stewart.When Stewart asked Ressa, the author of “How to Stand Up to a Dictator,” tips on coping with the current moment, Ressa recounted how she and her colleagues at the news site Rappler “just kept going” when she was faced with 11 arrest warrants in one year under Philippine then-President Rodrigo Duterte.“We just kept doing our jobs. We just kept putting one foot in front of the other,” Ressa said. Stewart makes special appearance to skewer Kimmel suspension Stewart’s show opened with a voice-over promising adherence to the party line.“We have another fun, hilarious administration-compliant show,” it said.He lavished praise on the president and satirized his criticism of large cities and his deployment of the National Guard to fight their crime.“Coming to you tonight from the real (expletive), the crime-ridden cesspool that is New York City. It is a tremendous disaster like no one’s ever seen before. Someone’s National Guard should invade this place, am I right?” Stewart said.“The Daily Show” set was refashioned with decorative gold engravings, in a parody of gold accents Trump has added to the fireplace, doorway arches, walls and other areas of the Oval Office.Stewart fidgeted nervously as though he was worried about speaking the correct talking points. When the audience members reacted with an “awww” he whispered: “What are you doing? Shut up. You’re going to (expletive) blow this for us.”He took on a more stilted tone when he started describing Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom, calling the president “our great father.”“Gaze upon him. With a gait even more majestic than that of the royal horses that prance before him,” he said.Stewart normally hosts only on Mondays. The Emmy winner helmed “The Daily Show” from 1999 through 2015, delivering sharp, satirical takes on politics and current events and interviews with newsmakers. He returned to host once a week during the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.Fallon opened his “Tonight Show” monologue addressing Kimmel’s suspension. “To be honest with you all, I don’t know what’s going on. And no one does. But I do know Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s a decent, funny and loving guy, and I hope he comes back.” Swift suspension after remarks on Kirk’s assassination Kimmel made several remarks about the reaction to Kirk’s killing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday and Tuesday nights, including that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”ABC suspended Kimmel’s show after a group of ABC-affiliated stations said it would not air the show, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said his agency had a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation.Kimmel has not commented. His supporters say Carr misread what the comic said and that nowhere did he specifically suggest that Tyler Robinson the man Utah authorities allege fatally shot Kirk was conservative.In July, CBS said it would cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May. The network said it shut down the decades-old TV institution for financial reasons. But the announcement came three days after Colbert criticized the settlement between President Donald Trump and Paramount Global, parent company of CBS, over a “60 Minutes” story. ‘The Late Show’ hosts past and present address suspension Colbert started his monologue on Thursday with the animated song “Be Our Guest” from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” but replaced the lyrics with “Shut your trap. Shut your trap.”He later addressed Kimmel directly, saying that he stands with him and his staff.“If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive,” he said.He also responded to remarks Carr made that it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming “they determine falls short of community values.”“Well, you know what my community values are, buster? Freedom of speech,” Colbert said to loud applause from his audience.When Colbert talked with New Yorker editor David Remnick about Kimmel’s suspension, he said: “What we are seeing now is the government acting at the direction of the president of the United States to put pressure on, to manipulate, to silence and even to shut down institutions of the free word.”David Letterman, Colbert’s predecessor on “The Late Show,” lamented the networks’ moves.“I feel bad about this, because we all see where see this is going, correct? It’s managed media,” Letterman said during an appearance Thursday at The Atlantic Festival 2025 in New York. “It’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous.”He added that people shouldn’t be fired just because they don’t “suck up” to what Letterman called “an authoritarian” president. Audrey McAvoy and Hallie Golden, Associated Press
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Haifa Smoked Fish, a seafood smokehouse facility based in Jamaica, Queens, has issued a recall after the discovery of Listeria monocytogenes in its cold smoked salmon and cold smoked sea bass. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), food inspectors at the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets sampled fish sold by the company. An analysis of the samples in a food laboratory confirmed the disease-causing bacterias presence. According to the FDA, Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Infections in pregnant people can cause miscarriages or stillbirths. Healthy individuals can experience short-term symptoms, including nausea, a high fever, and abdominal pain. As further noted by the Mayo Clinic, “Listeria bacteria can survive refrigeration and even freezing,” which makes vigilance especially important for people at higher risk. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with the recalled fish. What products are affected? The impacted smoked fish packets are both eight ounces and vacuum packed between a paper board and a plastic covering. The recall includes one lot of each fish: Cold Smoked Salmon, lot number 219 Cold Smoked Seabass, lot number 212 A sticker that reads Haifa 212 or 219 should be present on the packaging of any impacted fish. Example photos of the products are available on the FDAs website. Where and when was the product sold? The recalled smoked salmon and sea bass were directly delivered to both retail stores and distributors nationwide. The FDA hasnt shared a specific timeframe during which the recalled fish was sold or a list of specific retailers. Fast Company has reached out to Haifa Smoked Fish for more details. We will update this post if we hear back. However, the FDA urges anyone who has bought a recalled lot to return it to the same store and get a full refund.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers show no signs of budging as the House takes up a bill Friday to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks.The bill would generally continue existing funding levels through Nov. 21. Democratic leaders are adamantly opposed and are threatening a government shutdown if Republicans don’t let them have a say on the measure, as some Democratic support will be needed to get a bill to the president’s desk for his signature.House Speaker Mike Johnson has few votes to spare as he seeks to persuade Republicans to vote for the funding patch, something many in his conference have routinely opposed in past budget fights. But this time, GOP members see a chance to portray the Democrats as responsible for a shutdown, which would begin Oct. 1, unless Congress acts.In a sign the vote could be close, President Donald Trump weighed in Thursday, urging House Republicans to pass the bill and put the burden on Democrats to oppose it. GOP leaders often need Trump’s help to win over holdouts on legislation.“Every House Republican should UNIFY, and VOTE YES!” Trump said on his social media site.Republicans can pass the bill in the House if they stay united, and the speaker expressed confidence Thursday he had the votes.“We’re going to get this government funded,” Johnson said.Across the Capitol, though, Senate Democrats are hoping the public will support their proposal to head off a big increase next year in health insurance premiums for millions of Americans who purchase coverage through the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. They unveiled their own funding plan to extend the enhanced health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, plus reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in Republicans’ “big beautiful bill” enacted earlier this year.“The American people will look at what Republicans are doing, look at what Democrats are doing, and it will be clear that public sentiment will be on our side,” said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who has repeatedly threatened a shutdown if health care isn’t addressed.Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the Senate will vote on the House bill Friday, if it passes, along with the dueling Democratic proposal. But neither is expected to win the 60 votes necessary for passage.Senators could then potentially leave town until Sept. 29 one day before the shutdown deadline. The Senate has a scheduled recess next week because of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.Democrats on both sides of the Capitol are watching Schumer closely after his last-minute decision in March to vote with Republicans to keep the government open. Schumer argued then that a shutdown would be damaging and would give Trump and his White House freedom to make more government cuts. Many on the left revolted, with some advocates calling for his resignation.The vote in the spring also caused a temporary schism with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who opposed the GOP spending bill and said he would not be “complicit” with Schumer’s vote.The two Democratic leaders now say they are united, and Schumer says things have changed since March. The public is more wary of Trump and Republicans, Schumer says, after the passage of Medicaid cuts.Most Democrats appear to be backing Schumer’s demand that there be negotiations on the bill and support his threats of a shutdown, even as it is unclear how they would get out of it.Republicans say the blame would be clearly on the other side if they can’t pass a bill and are using Schumer’s previous arguments against shutdowns against him.“Democrats would love nothing more to put in our lap a shutdown. It’s not going to happen. If it does, it’s on them,” said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of the House Freedom Caucus, whose members have frequently opposed short-term funding bills, known as continuing resolutions.Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said: “Senator Schumer himself said that passing a clean CR will avert a harmful and unnecessary shutdown. Now he wants to cause a harmful and unnecessary shutdown.” Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report. Kevin Freking, Associated Press
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