He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,” the network said of Colbert, who began hosting the program after Letterman’s retirement in 2015. I don’t know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company,” said Colbert during Monday’s monologue. AdvertisementThe network’s move to cancel the show arrives over two years after it ended “The Late Late Show,” a program hosted by James Corden that aired directly after “The Late Show.”Sources told Stelter at the time that the program “was simply not sustainable” as it cost more than it made. Last year, the Colbert-produced “After Midnight” hosted by Taylor Tomlinson took that program’s place on the CBS late-night schedule. At the start of Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show,” Colbert delivered the news to his audience and was met with a resounding wave of boos.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Wall Street Journal has published the contents of a lewd birthday message Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 — enraging the president, who denies he had anything to do with the note. Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump photographed at Mar-a-Lago in 1997. I don’t draw pictures of women.” - Donald Trump to the Wall Street JournalVice President JD Vance also came to Trump’s defense. In it, Trump said he and Epstein both loved beautiful women, with Epstein preferring them young. “I know [Trump] is trying to distance himself, but they were.”More ties between Trump and Epstein have emerged over the years.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGEarlier this year, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters briefly employed a man whose image was synonymous with the infamous “Unite the Right” rally that brought white supremacists to Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The dramatic Getty photo of a screaming, white-polo-clad Cytanovic — then 20 years old, his face lit by tiki torches — became perhaps the most iconic image from the rally. Cytanovic declined to discuss his stint with the Teamsters during a brief exchange outside his home on Wednesday. “They can suck dick,” he said of the union, “and you can get the fuck out of here.”The Teamsters declined to comment on the matter. Someone who identified themselves as an employee at Teamsters headquarters said they learned about their new co-worker’s Charlottesville trip after googling his name.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep reductions to public broadcasting and foreign aid, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Republicans were using the president’s rescissions request to target wasteful spending. AdvertisementThe effort to claw back a sliver of federal spending comes after Republicans also muscled Trump’s big tax and spending cut bill to approval without any Democratic support. Lawmakers Clash Over Cuts To Public Radio And TV StationsAlong with Democrats, Collins and Murkowski both expressed concerns about the cuts to public broadcasting, saying they could affect important rural stations in their states. The legislation would claw back nearly $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which represents the full amount it’s due to receive during the next two budget years.

After voting for Medicaid cuts earlier this month as part of the recently passed budget reconciliation bill, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday introduced legislation to repeal changes that took funding from state plans. “I want to see Medicaid reductions stopped and rural hospitals fully funded permanently,” Hawley said Tuesday in a press release. Hawley’s proposal, dubbed the Protect Medicaid and Rural Hospitals Act, would double support for rural hospitals to $100 million as outlined in H.R. The proposed legislation also would:Repeal the provider tax moratorium and the future reduction of provider tax authority in the reconciliation bill. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied that Medicaid cuts exist under the budget reconciliation bill.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGJuly 16 (Reuters) - A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters. The lawsuit filed in Boston federal court claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacked the power to cancel the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program in April after it was approved and funded by Congress. “By unilaterally shutting down FEMA’s flagship pre-disaster mitigation program, Defendants have acted unlawfully and violated core separation of powers principles,” said the states, led by Washington and Massachusetts. The funding has been used for evacuation shelters, flood walls and improvements to roads and bridges, among other projects. AdvertisementOver the past four years FEMA has approved roughly $4.5 billion in grants for nearly 2,000 projects, much of which went to coastal states, according to Tuesday’s lawsuit.

Advertisement“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump said. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!” Trump added. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times. Still, the Epstein files controversy is unlikely to go away.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants in the country. “It’s outrageous and against the public interest that at the same time Congress has authorized 800 immigration judges, we are firing large numbers of immigration judges without cause,” said the union’s President Matt Biggs. AdvertisementImmigration court judges are also dealing with a massive backlog of roughly 3.5 million cases that ballooned in recent years. The union said that rather than speeding up the immigration court process, the Justice Department’s firings would actually make the backlogs worse. The union said that it can take as long as a year to recruit, hire and train new immigration court judges.

The murder counts in the deaths of former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, could carry the federal death penalty. He allegedly shot the senator nine times, and Yvette Hoffman eight times, but they survived. Boelter allegedly fled and left behind his car, which contained notebooks listing dozens of Democratic officials as potential targets with their home addresses, as well as five guns and a large quantity of ammunition. Boelter also faces state murder and attempted murder charges in Hennepin County, but the federal case will go first. Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, eulogized Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

https://www.tompetty.com/Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction. https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2025-emmy-nominees-music-categories-list-1236021589/For years, there have been rumors that Stevie Wonder can actually see. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stevie-wonder-addresses-blindness-rumors_n_68757fffe4b02462fe7a5a54TVThe nominations for the 2025 Emmy Nominations were announced on Tuesday. It’s called “ 100 Sound Effects “. And yes, it’s a comedy album of real sound effects.

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Seth Meyers Actually Agrees With Trump’s Latest Boast, But For A Brutal ReasonSeth Meyers on Tuesday skewered Donald Trump’s latest wild brag. “Yeah,” the “Late Night” host initially agreed. But then he added, “That’s not why everyone’s talking about it. That’s like saying, ‘Everyone is watching ‘Love Island’ because it’s so free of controversy.’”ADVERTISEMENTMeyers also mocked Trump’s gate-crashing of English soccer side Chelsea’s lifting of the FIFA Club World Cup trophy and his addition of more gold embellishments to the Oval Office. Watch Meyers’ full monologue here:Related...

LOADING ERROR LOADINGDon’t click that remote, this year’s Emmy nominations have arrived. Apple TV+’s office enigma “Severance” earned the most nominations with 27 while the streamer’s Hollywood satire “The Studio” tied the record for a debut season comedy with 23. AdvertisementHBO Max’s dark comic book limited series “The Penguin” and the Thailand-centric season of its biting vacation anthology “The White Lotus” earned 24 and 23 nominations, respectively. Rounding out the front-runners are HBO Max’s post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” and the Disney+ “Star Wars” saga “Andor” with 16 and 14 nods each. Set to be hosted by comic Nate Bargatze, the 77th Primetime Emmys will take place on Sept. 14 and air live on CBS.

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