Outgoing "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert paid tribute to his fallen colleague Jimmy Kimmel after ABC pulled the host off the air."I'm your host Stephen Colbert, but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel," the CBS host began his show Thursday night.Colbert called ABC's move to yank Kimmel's show "blatant censorship.""And it always starts small," Colbert said. "Remember, like in week one of his presidency, Gulf of America. Call it Gulf of America. Sure, it seems harmless, but with an autocrat, you cannot give an inch!""And if ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive," Colbert warned the rival network.LIBERALS RAGE AS ABC PULLS JIMMY KIMMEL OFF THE AIR FOLLOWING CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN COMMENTSColbert told Kimmel, "I stand with you and your staff 100%," but griped that he couldn't let him enjoy his Emmy win "for like one week."He went on to shrug off Kimmel's comments about the accused Charlie Kirk assassin, suggesting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair's Brendan Carr's condemnation was unwarranted and insisting what Kimmel said wasn't so "provocative."Colbert also slammed Carr's threat to Disney and accused him of being a hypocrite, citing a 2020 social media post decrying the censoring of political satire, including "late-night comedians."ABC INSIDER HOPES LIBERALS TAKE THIS LESSON AWAY FROM JIMMY KIMMEL SAGAColbert pointed to Nexstar Media Groups announcement that its ABC affiliates would preempt "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and noted the companys forthcoming merger would need approval from the Trump administration."So a company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through. Has that ever happened before?" he asked with a wink and a nod.CBS previously announced it would end "The Late Show" in May 2026, just days after parent company Paramount settled President Donald Trumps lawsuita development critics have linked to Paramounts $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWSOn Monday, Kimmel suggested that Kirk's alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was part of the "MAGA gang" despite reports he had a left-wing ideology, which was later reaffirmed in Tuesday's indictment."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," Kimmel told his audience.He also mocked Trump over an exchange he had with a reporter about Kirk's death, saying, "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?"Disney had faced mounting pressure from ABC affiliate stations around the country as well as the FCC over its handling of Kimmel. The company ultimately decided Wednesday it would preempt his show indefinitely.

Human remains possibly belonging to Travis Decker, the father accused of murdering his three young daughters months ago, were found in Washington state on Thursday night, according to officials.The body was found in a remote wooded area south of the city of Leavenworth, the Chelan County Sheriffs Office said in a news release."The Chelan County Sheriffs Office is announcing the potential discovery of human remains believed to be those of Travis Decker," the sheriff's office said.This week, the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force led a search that included the Chelan County Sheriffs Office, Washington State Patrol, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Forrest Service, Spokane County Sheriffs Office and the FBI."During the search, human remains were located in a remote wooded area south of the town of Leavenworth," the release said."While positive identification has not yet been confirmed, preliminary findings suggest the remains belong to Travis Decker," it added.The discovery will be followed up with DNA analysis, deputies said.Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison told KIRO 7 that the remains were located on Grindstone Mountain, off Icicle Road, just a few miles away from where his three daughters were found dead.

If youve ever boarded a United Airlines flight, theres a good chance your journey was quietly guided by a massive team working behind the scenes, far from the airport, and even farther from the public eye.That team is based at United Airlines Network Operations Center (NOC), a 24/7 command hub located just outside of Chicago, where specialists oversee nearly 5,000 flights a day.The facility houses more than 2,000 employees across 26 departments, from flight dispatch and crew scheduling to meteorology and aircraft maintenance coordination.Together, they monitor and manage Uniteds global operations, including departures and arrivals in major airport hubs.TSA SCREENS RECORD NUMBER OF TRAVELERS OVER LABOR DAY WEEKEND AS AIR TRAVEL SOARS"What you see in front of you is really where our global operations is controlled," Harel Magaritz, managing director of NOC daily operations, said during a behind-the-scenes tour of the center.Magaritz says the job is all about constant coordination and expecting the unexpected."Its about knowing that anything around the world can happen at any given moment," he said. "All the things that come up that could potentially disrupt a flight our job is to collect that information and then communicate it out to the field."That includes everything from mechanical issues to weather delays to crew reassignments.MAJOR AIRLINE MAKES BIG CHANGE TO EASE TRAVEL WOES AMID CHAOS AT NEWARK AIRPORTSPIRIT AIRLINES WARNS IT MAY NOT SURVIVE ANOTHER YEAROne of the most critical teams inside the NOC is the in-house meteorology department, led by Nathan Polderman, senior manager of meteorology. His team is responsible for issuing weather forecasts across Uniteds network, and flagging any events that might delay or ground flights."In some cases, weve had two or three hubs with thunderstorm activity in the same day," Polderman said. "So you can imagine that makes the weather team very busy."Each day starts with two forecasters overnight, ramping up to four meteorologists during the day, according to Polderman. Their forecasts are used by flight dispatchers to decide how or if a flight should proceed.UNITED AIRLINES CEO GIVES 5-WORD PREDICTION THAT LOW-COST RIVAL WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS"Turbulence, icing, bad weather at the destination airport, if anythings going to happen to that flight, the dispatcher is going to coordinate that," Polderman said.Magaritz said the goal is simple: keep flights moving safely and smoothly, often before passengers even realize a problem exists."Its about that comfort level of knowing youre not out there by yourself," Margaritz said. "Youre not just buying a ticket and hoping youll make it to your destination. There are entire teams and thousands of people working in the background."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPUnited officials also emphasized how essential it is to receive real-time updates from airports across the country in order to keep operations seamless across the network.

Jimmy Kimmel didnt read the electronic room.And it cost him his job.Now that Disney and ABC executives, after huddling all day, pulled the plug as Kimmel was preparing for Wednesday nights show, its hard to see him returning. The brass said hes suspended "indefinitely," meaning "lose our number."There are serious free speech concerns here, especially against the backdrop of government pressure.Nexstar, an ABC affiliate that owns NewsNation, also said it would preempt the show on its stations.DISNEY PULLS JIMMY KIMMEL'S SHOW AFTER COMMENTS ON CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION AND MORE TOP HEADLINESWith Stephen Colbert confined to a final season at CBS, that would mean two of the three late-night hosts on broadcast networks would be banished. Both are social commentators, of course, and fervently anti-Trump.One happy camper is Donald Trump, who has been feuding with Kimmel. (I played a small role in that, as well see in a moment.)Trump congratulated ABC on having the "courage" to boot Jimmy. When the Colbert news broke, the president predicted that Kimmel would be next.What Kimmel said, in the wake of Charlie Kirks assassination, isnt that awful. Its about the killer, not, as some early headlines had it, Charlie himself.Right after the shooting, in fact, Kimmel offered a somber, respectful reaction, sending his love to Kirks family.But then he was tone-deaf about the sensitivity of the situation and the widespread anger especially among young conservative activists, but also those who disagreed with Kirk. The atmosphere right now is like a tinderbox that only needed a single match.These are the words from Monday that got him in trouble:"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."Thats it.I dont agree that the killer was part of the Trump movement. I dont think he was part of any movement, just a crazed madman with a transgender partner who had sympathy for gays but not "fascists." As with all these nutjob murderers and school shooters, the medias search on a "motive" is futile.A month from now, maybe Kimmels sentence wouldnt have caused an uproar. But he should have sensed that this was not the time.Now lets look at what the other side has been saying.Trump, who was close to Kirk, says left-wing radicals are to blame for his killing and that investigations are under way. Elon Musk has labeled "the left" as "the party of murder." Pam Bondi said she would prosecute those guilty of "hate speech," apparently missing the point that the First Amendment is meaningless unless it protects vile speech as long as it doesnt include threats of violence.Against that ocean of rhetoric, Kimmels comment was a small trickle.And that brings us to the Federal Communications Commission, which has the power to revoke broadcast licenses.FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who I recently interviewed, said this on a podcast:"We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or theres going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."Sounds pretty ominous.TRUMP EYES REMARKS AT CHARLIE KIRK MEMORIAL IN ARIZONA, BLAMES LEFT FOR SUSPECTS RADICALIZATIONBut Carr kinda sorta walked it back at a Politico conference. "I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, that our First Amendment, our free speech tradition, protects almost all speech."Even Laura Ingraham said Carr should have stayed off TV.Trump, meanwhile, urged NBC to fire "two total losers," Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, which would mean a clean sweep of the late-night landscape.Its worth reminding everyone that Charlie Kirk was engaging in free speech and advocating non-violence as he toured the country and built his Turning Point organization.Celebrities, Democrats and some journalists are denouncing the Disney/ABC decision to blow up "Jimmy Kimmel Live." That makes me wonder whether, as in the case of Colberts "Late Show," it was losing money or making relatively little money and the comments provided the pretext for getting it off the books.Now to the backstory. When I sat down with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last year, it was right after the Oscars, hosted, as it turned out, by Kimmel.And he made a joke about Trump: "Isnt it past your jail time?"So let the record show that Jimmy started it at least this round.So I asked the candidate if he had a response."Every night he hits me, I guess," said Trump. "His ratings are terrible So I figured Id hit him, because I thought he was a lousy host."Referring to reports that some Kimmel confidantes had begged him not to make the jail joke, Trump told me: "This guys even dumber than I thought."Oh, but that wasnt the end of it.In his inevitable pushback, Kimmel said of course Fox had picked a guy to interview Trump "that no ones ever heard of."Well! Id only hosted the No. 1 cable show in its time slot for a dozen years, but I guess that didnt matter to the wealthy La-la-land elite.I shot back that while I wasnt a heavily hyped network star like him, my Sunday ratings almost matched his. I used my higher-than-normal rating from the Trump interview, but lets not get bogged down in details.TURNING POINT USA ELECTS ERIKA KIRK AS NEW CEO, CHAIR OF THE BOARD FOLLOWING CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATIONIll give the final word to Outkick founder Clay Travis, the conservative radio host and frequent guest of mine:"I like Jimmy and his family and have known them for years now. I dont like the concept as someone who talks for a living of any person in any creative industry losing their job for any one thing they say."Travis says there have been frequent attempts to cancel him, adding: "If your principle shifts based on who has power, you actually have no principles."Footnote: I wish most media people, except for those covering hard-news developments, would stop using the name of the suspect in the Charlie Kirk case.For many years, I have refused to name assassins, would-be assassins, mass shooters and school shooters, because that would give them the attention they crave. Just not gonna go there.Do you remember the name of the killers at Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, the Orlando nightclub, the Las Vegas music festival, the Charleston church, Buffalo, Uvalde, or even the Colorado school a couple of weeks ago? I dont either. The faster we can consign them to the dustbin of history, the better.Lavishing attention on them may inspire other would-be gunmen to take action, thinking its a way to turn nobodies into somebodies.And heres the absolute proof from the alleged Kirk killer.The 22-year-old texted his roommate, his romantic partner, about what he had inscribed on the bullet casings.If those messages wound up "on fox new[s] I might have a stroke."Thats why I say its dangerous to reward these heinous figures by making them household names.

A Michigan resident is speaking out after being told he was "not welcome" in his own city for raising concerns about street signs honoring the controversial founder and publisher of The Arab American News.Ted Barham, a Christian minister and resident of Dearborn, attended a city council meeting earlier this month to oppose renaming an intersection after Osama Siblani. Barham accused Siblani of supporting terror groups and promoting violence in the Middle East and on American soil."When he's kind of synonymous with Hezbollah and now Hamas, I didn't think it was appropriate for his name to be up so publicly in this city here in America," Barham stressed on the "Will Cain Country" podcast.EXCLUSIVE: MAN WHO SPARRED WITH MUSLIM DEARBORN MAYOR, TOLD HE WASN'T 'WELCOME' REVEALED AS CHRISTIAN MINISTERAt the public meeting, Barham read from a comment made by Siblani, a Lebanese-American, which he argued encouraged violence not only in the Middle East, but also in the United States.Barham argued that Siblani once spoke about "the blood of the martyrs" irrigating the land of Palestine.He quoted Siblani as allegedly saying in an 2022 speech: "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."Siblani rejected Barhams allegations as false, telling Fox News Digital he was "the only person" to oppose the street sign.He said support for the honor has been widespread, adding, "Thousands of residents in Dearborn, across Michigan, and throughout the country have praised the sign recognizing my more than four decades of service."Siblani also argued that Barhams claims were "based on false information and bias."WHITMER SILENT ON MUSLIM MAYOR TELLING RESIDENT HES NOT WELCOME FOR SLAM ON TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERBarham told Will Cain that he lived in the Middle East for a time and said he fears what he referred to as the flow of "hostility" from Muslim-majority countries into the West.Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud defended the decision, saying Siblani had contributed greatly to the community through his decades leading The Arab American News. He dismissed Barhams concerns and told him to "close his eyes" if he didnt want to see the signs."I didn't think that was great advice because then I might crash if I close my eyes when I'm driving there," Barham later said, stressing that he had no intent to spread hate toward the Muslim community.JEWISH LEADER PREDICTS VIOLENT FUTURE FOR NYC RESIDENTS IF MAMDANI WINS IN NOVEMBER: 'REAL CONCERN'"I don't want to just encourage more hostility towards Muslim friends. I want to encourage love towards Muslim friends," he said, emphasizing that his faith played a role in his decision to speak out about the intersection signs.In the meeting, Hammoud called Barham a "racist," "bigot" and an "Islamophobe."He went on to declare: "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 said he responded to the moment with faith."I think it's very important to show Christian love to our enemies," he said. "That's why I responded by saying, God bless you, mayor. God bless you, sir."Now, Barham said hes facing online retaliation."I was kicked off Facebook, permanently, suddenly kicked off Facebook, lost my personal account of 16 years, my personal photos, family photos and all my media pages," he said.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPBarham said he believes the ban followed his posting of a video urging Muslims to convert to Christianity and claimed that some residents, "possibly the mayor himself," played a role.