Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Is Coming Back

ABC announced today that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show would return to the airwaves tomorrow night.

The show was suspended “indefinitely” last week after a top federal regulator and many conservatives criticized Kimmel for erroneously suggesting that the man accused of assassinating the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was a MAGA follower. Disney, which owns ABC, said today that while some of Kimmel’s comments were “ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company decided to bring back the show after discussing the matter with Kimmel for several days.

Kimmel began negotiating his show’s return last week with top Disney executives, including Robert Iger, the C.E.O. An initial meeting ended with Kimmel declining to agree to changes in a monologue he had planned to deliver on the matter. The two sides came to a resolution this morning, according to a senior executive.

Kimmel’s brief removal from air became a flashpoint for free speech. President Trump celebrated the move and said that the government should consider revoking the licenses of networks that broadcast criticisms of him. Many liberals, and even some conservatives, condemned the suspension as an attack on free expression.

It is still unclear whether major television operators, such as Nexstar and Sinclair, will air future episodes of the show. Nexstar has good reason to appease federal regulators: It is pursuing a merger.

In related news, college professors have been fired or suspended for comments they made in the wake of Kirk’s shooting, following a playbook pushed by Kirk himself.

Trump warned about unproven link between Tylenol and autism

The president hosted a White house event this afternoon about autism. He criticized the childhood vaccine schedule and recommended against the use of the painkiller Tylenol during pregnancy. Trump declared that there was a link between rising autism rates and the use of the painkiller, despite inconclusive research on the topic.

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said that the F.D.A. would issue a note to doctors about the risk of acetaminophen during pregnancy and begin the process to make a safety change on the label.

In other Trump administration news:

• The Supreme Court allowed Trump to fire a leader of the F.T.C., and the justices said they would shortly consider overturning the precedent that has prevented presidents from removing independent regulators.

• Trump appointees are trying to limit enforcement of fair housing laws, interviews and internal documents show.

• A White House aide with no prosecutorial experience replaced Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney who resigned under pressure after he suggested he was unlikely to bring charges against two of Trump’s political enemies.

• A judge ruled that construction on a wind farm off Rhode Island could proceed for now, after the administration halted work last month.

Palestinian statehood took center stage at the U.N.

Several leaders from across the globe, including President Emmanuel Macron of France, convened in New York today to formally recognize Palestinian statehood at the beginning of the U.N. General Assembly. Roughly 150 nations now consider Palestine a sovereign nation, over opposition from Israel and the U.S.

The recognition is a highly symbolic move intended to help salvage the prospect of a Jewish state of Israel alongside a Palestinian one, which is looking as distant as ever as the Gaza war nears the end of its second year. In practice, the recognition of a Palestinian state is unlikely to change the reality on the ground.

For more: Here’s what to expect from this week’s gathering of world leaders.

The new H-1B visa fee is felt most by Indians

Ever since the H1-B visa program was created in 1990 to grant visas to skilled foreign workers, Indians have accounted for a vast majority of recipients.

So, when Trump announced that every new H-1B application would come with a $100,000 price tag, beginning yesterday, it knocked down a crucial bridge between the economies of the U.S. and India. It had lured a generation of Indian professionals, including multiple top C.E.O.s, to take part in the American dream.

More top news

• Russia: Vladimir Putin proposed maintaining the caps imposed by the last remaining arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington for another year.

• Weather: Super Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in the Philippines, causing landslides, and was forecast to reach Hong Kong on Wednesday.

• Business: Nvidia said it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI, an indication of the wild financial figures being tossed around in artificial intelligence.

• Social media: The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and monitor changes to TikTok’s powerful algorithm under a new deal, the White House said.

• Egypt: Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen who was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident, was pardoned.

• Charlie Kirk: Here are takeaways, a V.I.P. list, and an account from the slain activist’s memorial service.

• New York: Take an inside look at the burgeoning alliance between the Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “big sister” he hoped to impress.

• California: An Argentine tech executive fell thousands of feet to his death on Mount Shasta.

• Space: NASA introduced its new class of astronauts, the first in which women outnumber men.

Ian McEwan is out with a pleasing new novel

A lot happens in Ian McEwan’s new novel, “What We Can Know.” The book follows a scholar who, living a century in the future, becomes obsessed with finding a lost poem. There are murder, multiple revenge plots, buried treasure and literary arson.

In a review, our critic Dwight Garner described the novel as the best thing McEwan, now 77, has written in ages. “It gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing,” Dwight wrote.

A show celebrating the patron saint of artists

Art handlers, restorers and museum directors traveled to Florence this month for one of the most anticipated art shows of the year: an exhibition highlighting the great works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico.

Angelico, who was named the patron saint of artists in 1984, more than 500 years after his death, was well known for his piety. But the new exhibition, which opens this week, also hopes to establish him as one of the greatest artists of his generation.

These strawberries grow where no trees can

Gjoa Haven is a small Inuit community perched on a large, flat windswept island high in Canada’s Arctic. The nearest trees are hundreds of miles south, and the area plunges into total darkness during the winter. But residents there can now grow sweet strawberries and juicy tomatoes all year-round.

The fresh produce is possible thanks to a high-tech greenhouse that was installed in 2019. The plants, researchers hope, will eventually provide an alternative to perishable goods flown in at great cost from far away. “I didn’t know anything about plants before,” one resident said. “Now I’m a green thumb.’’

Have a fresh evening.

Thanks for reading. I’ll be back on Monday. — Matthew

Guillermo Hernandez Martinez was our photo editor.

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