Stephen Colbert wrapped up "The Late Show" last week after alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on his parent network, but his replacement isn't exactly filling the gap, according to new reporting. The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert drew more than 6.7 million viewers, according to reporting by The Daily Beast, which looked at Nielsen data. The show filling Colbert's time slot on CBS, Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed," drew only 995,000 viewers with its first episode, The Daily Beast reported. Allen is the billionaire owner of the Allen Media Group. Late-night talk shows hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon topped more than 1.5 million viewers on the same night that Comics Unleashed debuted, according to The Daily Beast, which noted that Kimmel aired a rerun that night. According to The Daily Beast, even Colbert's YouTube channel is nearly outperforming Allen's show. Colbert's appearance on the public access TV show "Only in Monroe" drew 928,000 views on Colbert's YouTube, which doesn't include viewers who watched via other channels and platforms. CBS announced earlier this year that Colbert's show would end this month, citing financial reasons. However, Colbert and multiple political analysts have suggested that Trump's criticisms of Colbert were the cause. Bill Carter, a long-time late-night reporter, suggested on MS NOW that Trump was "personally involved" in Colbert's removal, Fox News reported.
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A Colorado man who repeatedly bragged on social media about his participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in connection with a shooting death in Colorado Springs, the Colorado Times Recorder reported on Wednesday.Tim Arvidson "boasted multiple times about taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, posting a photo of himself driving to the event, uploading a video of it as he participated, and later processing what he 'experienced,'" the report reads. "On the way to Washington, D.C., Arvidson posted a selfie with the comment, 'We may stay a while. We’re pissed. This isn’t going to happen! Stop The Steal!'"Despite his repeated conspiracy claims like “The election was stolen, I was an Election Judge in Colorado this current election; the election was stolen; my sworn oath will suffice!" and "Georgia was the same scam as Nov 3rd! Keep fighting, don’t stop, don’t give up! We are now DISENFRANCHISED! Our votes DO NOT COUNT! We are NOT FREE! Fight for your Constitutional rights!” Arvidson went on to hold the position of chair of the Castle Rock Election Commission.This week, according to the report, his life took a darker turn."According to the arrest affidavit, Arvidson approached his neighbor and accused a group of people of selling drugs and having guns," said the report. "After an altercation, Arvidson then allegedly shot 43-year-old Robert Dougher, who later died of his injuries."If Arvidson is convicted, it will be only the latest in a long string of January 6 participants, many of whom received a pardon from President Donald Trump after being convicted of those offenses, to end up back in trouble with the law.Others include Jake Lang, who was charged with contempt of court after his behavior at a bond hearing for an influencer charged with murder; Bryan Betancur, who has been repeatedly accused of stalking and inappropriate touching of women on public transportation; and Andrew Paul Johnson, who received a life sentence for child molestation.
The US military carried out new strikes in Iran Wednesday, targeting a military site that threatened American troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters. The outlet, citing a US official, also reported that drones launched from Iran were intercepted by American forces. The US military carried out new strikes...
The Democratic Party issued a foul-mouthed insult to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller after he called Texas Senate candidate James Talarico 'transgender.'
A Fox News reporter caught the crazed reaction from an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protester live as she broadcasted from a demonstration at an immigrant detention center in New Jersey.Protesters have declaimed against the conditions inside of the ICE detainment center at Delaney Hall in Newark as detainees have reportedly been participating in hunger strikes since Friday.'It’s constant with this. This is what these people do. They want people who are in this country illegally to be released out onto the streets.'On Tuesday, the outrage led to an outburst captured on air on Fox News."I'm not the most popular reporter, right, at these ICE protests. So just prepare yourself to see some of that," said Fox reporter Alexis McAdams. "The other situation is there's people like this. You are a protester who’s been out here — and you have a dirty mouth."The woman appears to say, "You're a b***h!" at McAdams."OK! So that’s just what we deal with," McAdams responded. "It’s constant with this. This is what these people do. They want people who are in this country illegally to be released out onto the streets.""F**king Nazi b***h! That’s what you are!" screams the protester."That is an eloquent argument," replied Fox host Will Cain back at the studio.Video of the interaction was posted to social media, where it quickly went viral.Protesters claim that federal officials are ignoring medical care requests and needs from the detainees, who also claim they are being held under poor conditions and fed bad food that is causing illness. On Monday, protesters tried to block vehicles from leaving the center and were pepper-sprayed by agents. The Department of Homeland Security denies the allegations about the conditions at the facility.RELATED: Pro-ICE student suspended for posters at California high school after anti-ICE student walkout "They're given rotten frozen food, or in the case of last week, they found live worms in their food, we're also hearing of people being denied toilet paper," said activist Catalina Adorno to WABC-TV. There are about 300 detainees being held at the privately run facility at Delaney Hall, which includes about 1,000 beds. Detainees have tablets to communicate with the outside.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents privately admitted to each other how horrific the conditions were in their section of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, Courthouse News reported on Wednesday — including the proliferation of dangerous diseases in the facility."At the height of ICE’s immigrant detention campaign in New York City last summer, the agency regularly crammed well over 100 people at a time into a holding facility in Lower Manhattan, according to a class of detainees suing over their treatment," said the report. "Health issues permeated throughout the facility, even according to employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."Nancy Zanello, a New York-based ICE assistant field office director, raged in a 2025 email that “This week has been one gross contagion after another,” leading to “multiple” cases of detainees requiring hospital treatment for “cardiac and seizures.”"Heather Gregorio, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, told the court that someone with tuberculosis was held in the jam-packed facility for six days," said the report. "'And we have a guy with monkeypox,' Zanello wrote in a text shown to the court, punctuating it with a facepalm emoji."This is the latest in a long string of reports about subpar conditions in the troubled Manhattan ICE detention area.In February, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan accused ICE of "stalling" production of documents in the case, and was reportedly "bewildered" when agents admitted to him that they had set up an entirely unreported portion of the building for their own use without public knowledge.
Rodney S. Scott, the head of President Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection, is being ordered to a federal court hearing next month to answer for whether the administration is complying with court orders to issue refunds for the president's tariff scheme.According to The New York Times, "The unexpected demand, issued on Wednesday, hinted at a judge’s ongoing concern that the government has not fully complied with a directive to return all of the money amassed under duties that were declared illegal by the Supreme Court earlier this year."Trump had set up a system of "reciprocal tariffs" under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a controversial decision since that law doesn't even mention tariffs in its statute. Since the tariffs were struck down, he has tried to set up a 10 percent global tariff scheme under another law, but this too faces intense legal scrutiny."Within days of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Court of International Trade took the first, formal steps to compel the administration to begin the refund process. While Mr. Trump publicly opposed returning the money, his administration still worked to set up a system to do so. It officially began accepting importers’ requests for repayment in late April," said the report. However, "The government said in a court filing in April that it could process refunds for only about $127 billion out of the approximately $166 billion collected.""The lack of clarity prompted Richard K. Eaton, a judge on the trade court, on Wednesday to order a hearing for June, at which he directed Mr. Scott to 'appear to answer the court’s questions as to the anticipated timing of Customs’ compliance with the court’s order,'" said the report. "In a separate filing, the judge also cited concern about 'millions' of entries for which the government has 'not presented a proposal' for providing refunds."Trump's tariff policy has been broadly rejected by the public as voters grow restless over rising costs. Even some Republican officials are trying to distance themselves from the impact of the policy.
A group of 35 former federal judges has filed legal action to try to forcibly reopen the Trump v. IRS lawsuit, as a means of shutting down the president's "settlement" with his own government that creates a $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund.President Donald Trump previously filed the suit, seeking $10 billion from his own tax agency for alleged negligence in keeping his tax information safe, after a whistleblower exposed confidential information about his returns.In the brief, the judges argued that the very existence of the settlement is improper and represents an abuse of the court system."This Court dismissed this action with prejudice ... in response to Plaintiffs’ Notice of Voluntary Dismissal with Prejudice ... filed earlier that day," said the filing, noting that the judge wrote at the time Trump “neither submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed. "The Court was deceived. Despite Plaintiffs not having mentioned any settlement in their Notice, the Department of Justice ... publicly announced a 'settlement' of this action shortly after Plaintiffs filed their dismissal."This action isn't legal, the judges wrote, and the case should be reopened to litigate its validity."The purported 'settlement' that the parties never placed before this Court raises profound questions about the parties’ candor toward the Court and manipulation of the judicial system, which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice," they wrote. "As former judges, Movants have an interest in bringing to the Court’s attention these concerns and the availability of relief under Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allows the Court to set aside the judgment and reopen the case."All of this comes as the "Anti-Weaponization Fund," which the Justice Department insists is not political and open to all victims of "lawfare," has become so politically toxic that even Republicans in Congress have debated curtailing it.