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Taylor Seely and Angele Latham, USA TODAY NETWORKSeptember 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM

ABC pulled comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show following veiled threats from the Federal Communications Commission and now President Donald Trump has called on the FCC to revoke the broadcast licenses of stations that criticize him.

Both moves mark escalations by government officials in stifling free speech since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, First Amendment advocates warn.

Before Trump's remarks Sept. 18, free speech advocates had already criticized Kimmel's suspension and, in particular, FCC Chair Brendan Carr's role. ABC announced the "indefinite" suspension of Kimmel and his show hours after Carr called for it on a right-wing podcast.

"That's a very vivid example to the public of government pressure on private speakers to suppress speech," Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said about Carr's comments that ABC could "do it the easy way or the hard way."

Steinbaugh added, "At all levels of government, you have officials setting bad examples, sending the message to the public that if you don't like what someone says, then we will be there to make sure that they face consequences."

Trump defended Carr's statements and went further when asked about them by reporters.

"They're 97% against — they give me only bad publicity or press," Trump claimed about his coverage on TV networks while aboard Air Force One. "I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr."

Three days prior, Vice President JD Vance and Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the administration would "go after" left-leaning organizations they say have incited violence.

Those threats, the policing of negative speech about Kirk online and statements made by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding prosecuting hate speech all have contributed to an environment that Steinbaugh said is not "healthy" for the First Amendment.

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Kimmel under fire after FCC commissioner's comments

Kimmel's suspension came after Carr was asked by Benny Johnson, a right-wing political commentator, about the comedian's monologue.

Kimmel had said, "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."

Johnson blasted the remarks as attempts to justify violence and blame Kirk for his own death.

Carr responded that broadcasters "have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest."

He continued, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, testifies at a House hearing on May 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The statement appeared to contradict Carr's previous comments. In 2019, he wrote on social media, "The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the 'public interest.'"

The FCC regulates radio and broadcast stations nationwide. National television networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are not granted licenses by the FCC. Instead, the FCC issues licenses to individual local broadcast affiliates authorizing the stations to use public airwaves.

Within hours of Carr's comments, Nexstar Media Group Inc., which operates 32 ABC affiliates, announced it would stop airing Kimmel's show. "Mr. Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse," Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division, said.

Nexstar is seeking FCC approval to acquire the broadcast company Tegna. Approval would require lifting the station ownership limit, which bans broadcasters from reaching more than 39% of the national audience.

Nexstar has rejected claims it suspended the show over pressure from the feds.

ABC followed suit, announcing the "indefinite" suspension of Kimmel and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

In a statement made on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Thursday, Carr stated that he expects to see "more shifts" in the "media ecosystem."

"We are not done yet," he said.

This is not the first time ABC has landed in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

The network paid nearly $15 million following a December settlement with Trump after he sued for defamation.

One day before Kimmel's suspension, when ABC reporter Jon Karl asked Trump about comments made by Bondi regarding hate speech, Trump said she'll "probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly."

"It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart," he said, before going on to assert that ABC's settlement was due to a "form of hate speech."

The settlement did not deal with hate speech, but rather defamation, after anchor George Stephanopoulos asked why a congresswoman supported Trump despite his being found "liable for rape" in a 2023 civil case.

In that Manhattan case, Trump was found liable for "sexual abuse," not rape.

1 / 22Charlie Kirk remembered in memorials: Conservative activist was shot while speaking in UtahSupporters visit a memorial for Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point Headquarters in Phoenix on Sept. 11, 2025.'Involvement of lawmakers puts a heavier thumb on the scale'

First Amendment experts say a crackdown by members of the government on free speech poses serious and direct risks to the public.

Steinbaugh and Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, both pointed to Bondi's misrepresentation of hate speech as legally unprotected and the FCC's role in Kimmel's suspension.

"It's not good when the attorney general of the United States threads inaccurate legal analysis to the public," Volokh said.

Bondi later clarified that the Department of Justice would target hate speech that leads to violence.

Steinbaug said also he had lost count of the number of U.S. Senators calling for the termination of public employees, "and that is surprising and new and worrying."

"It's one thing for members of the public to be calling for people to be fired or punished for what they say. That may be censorious, but it is part of the political dialogue," Steinbaugh said. "The involvement of lawmakers puts a heavier thumb on the scale, because they wield not just the power of social persuasion or pressure, but they are invoking the authority of government."

Steinbaugh and Volokh said that sort of government pressure also happened under the Biden administration, which wanted social media companies to remove comments related to COVID-19.

Steinbaugh said he was stunned over how quickly the nation moved on from Kirk's assassination "to attempting to suppress more speech" and how Trump administration officials were involving themselves in such efforts.

"It … really gives the appearance they are trying to suppress protected speech, and doing so intentionally," Steinbaugh said.

"The Republican Party is not going to hold the executive branch forever. And you can very easily see the federal government (and future) Democratic officeholders doing the exact same thing," he said.

Money talks: Comedians face pressure as business mergers loom

Kimmel's cancellation follows a similar pattern of fellow late-night show hosts being scrutinized amid networks' high-dollar deals.

Earlier this year, the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was given a May 2026 end date after CBS announced plans to cancel the show.

The announcement came just days after CBS' parent company, Paramount, reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Trump. The company was also seeking FCC approval for a major merger with Skydance, which was approved a week after Colbert's cancellation announcement.

ABC is in a similar situation. Nexstar Media Group, one of the largest local TV operators in the country, is near the end of a $6.2 billion merger with Tegna, another media company. The deal will require FCC approval.

Nexstar operates a large number of ABC affiliate stations in markets across the country. Its merger is drawing monopoly concerns, as the deal could increase its local TV ownership to more than 39% of US households, according to Business Insider.

After ABC suspended Kimmel's show, Sinclair Broadcasting Group also weighed in, saying the company would replace the comedy show's timeslot Sept. 19 with a tribute "in remembrance of Charlie Kirk."

The special will air at all Sinclair stations and be offered to ABC affiliates nationwide.

Sinclair Vice Chair Jason Smith said the company "appreciated" Carr's statements, which he said "highlights the critical need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks."

Smith said Sinclar will not return Kimmel to their channels until formal discussion with ABC — and even asked that Kimmel apologize and make a "meaningful" personal donation to the Kirk family and TPUSA.

Taylor Seely is a First Amendment reporter at The Arizona Republic / azcentral.com. Angele Latham is a First Amendment reporter at The Tennessean in Nashville.

The USA TODAY Network's coverage of First Amendment issues is funded through a collaboration between the Freedom Forum and Journalism Funding Partners. Funders do not provide editorial input.

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Why ABC ousted Jimmy Kimmel for calling Charlie Kirk's killer a MAGA member Howard KurtzSeptember 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM 0 Jimmy Kimmel didn't read the electronic room. And it cost him his job.

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Howard KurtzSeptember 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM

Jimmy Kimmel didn't 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 night's show, it's hard to see him returning. The brass said he's 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.

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Jimmy Kimmel was suspended from his late night show "indefinitely" for comments he made about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

With 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 we'll 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 Kirk's assassination, isn't that awful. It's 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 Kirk's 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."

That's it.

Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah, prior to his assassination.

I don't agree that the killer was part of the Trump movement. I don't 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 media's search on a "motive" is futile.

A month from now, maybe Kimmel's sentence wouldn't have caused an uproar. But he should have sensed that this was not the time.

Now let's 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 doesn't include threats of violence.

Against that ocean of rhetoric, Kimmel's 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 there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

Sounds pretty ominous.

Trump Eyes Remarks At Charlie Kirk Memorial In Arizona, Blames Left For Suspect's Radicalization

But 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.

It's 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 Colbert's "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.

President Donald Trump speaks at a dinner with Senate Republicans at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025.

And he made a joke about Trump: "Isn't 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 I'd 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 guy's even dumber than I thought."

Oh, but that wasn't the end of it.

In his inevitable pushback, Kimmel said of course Fox had picked a guy to interview Trump "that no one's ever heard of."

Well! I'd only hosted the No. 1 cable show in its time slot for a dozen years, but I guess that didn't matter to the wealthy La-la-land elite.

I shot back that while I wasn't 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 let's not get bogged down in details.

Turning Point Usa Elects Erika Kirk As New Ceo, Chair Of The Board Following Charlie Kirk's Assassination

I'll 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 don't 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.

Donald Trump was a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in 2015 prior to winning the presidency.

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 don't 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 it's a way to turn nobodies into somebodies.

And here's 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."

That's why I say it's dangerous to reward these heinous figures by making them household names.

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A sheriff who is a leading candidate for governor of California hid the causes of a mounting epidemic of jail deaths behind a culture of cover-up and retaliation, a former captain in the department said in her first interview since she filed a lawsuit outlining her claims. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco ordered Captain Victoria Flores not to answer questions from a civil grand jury investigating jail conditions, Flores alleges. Another of her bosses told her not to leave a paper trail about a detainee's overdose. And the department didn't discipline deputies who were captured on video knocking a man unconscious. Those are just some of the claims Flores, a 30-year veteran of the department, made in a July lawsuit and in an exclusive interview with The Desert Sun, a member of the USA TODAY Network. Her allegations support previous reporting by The Desert Sun and The New York Times that Bianco's cost-cutting left the jails understaffed with inexperienced guards as they became among the deadliest large jails in the nation. And they come as Bianco steps onto a wider political stage with a run for governor in the nation's most populous state. "The inmates in the county's detention facilities were being abused," Flores said, "and the abuse was covered up without proper discipline."

Victoria Flores, a former Captain with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, is interviewed about her lawsuit, which alleges Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco created a culture of cover-up and retaliation to hide the reasons behind a surge in in-custody deaths in the department's jails.

Flores charges in her lawsuit that Bianco fired her in 2024 in retaliation for conflicts she had with the sheriff's administration, including her unwillingness to remain quiet over staff and policy failures related to the deaths. Bianco has repeatedly said that there have been no allegations of misconduct related to deaths in the county's five jails and that any controversy is manufactured by his political enemies. But the surge in deaths triggered an ongoing civil rights investigation of his office by the California Department of Justice. More than a dozen families have sued the sheriff over wrongful deaths in the jail. Several have resolved in settlements totaling more than $13 million, and the rest remain pending. In an interview, Flores specifically cited the death of Alicia Upton, a 21-year-old woman facing a misdemeanor charge, who died by suicide as surveillance video recorded that jail staff ignored her attempts to contact them in 2022. Upton was one of 19 inmates to die that year. Two years after her daughter's death, Upton's mother learned from a reporter the basic details of her final moments. The department hasn't released more than a summary report to the public or the family. Flores said she can't provide more details now because she could be called to testify in the lawsuit Upton's family filed against Bianco, the county and Flores, who was captain at the jail when Upton died. "The lack of information given to the family about Alicia Upton's death is one of the reasons why I came forward," Flores said. "All these families deserve respect. Bianco's callousness is appalling. There's absolutely no personal responsibility. You can't continue to blame families because they want answers."

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The department's attorneys have disputed the claims made by Nichole Thompson, Upton's mother, in the civil suit and the case remains unresolved. The department and the county did not respond to requests for comment on Flores' suit. Her suit was filed publicly but later sealed by a judge. It is unclear whether the county filed an official response to the lawsuit after it was sealed.

'Too much too fast'

Bianco has served seven years as sheriff of Riverside County, which is home to more than 2.4 million people and sprawls from the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles to the Arizona border in an area nearly the size of New Jersey. He manages five jails and a staff of 1,700 sworn deputies and 2,400 civilians. Bianco promoted Flores in 2021 to lead the central jail, the Robert Presley Detention Center in Downtown Riverside. She had spent more than two decades working in the jails, often directly with detainees, and on assignments developing the department's jail policies. She advised on new protections against rape and policies for managing state sentencing reforms that ballooned the jails' population. The county's five jails house an average of 3,500 people and routinely release some to address jail overcrowding.

Chad Bianco, who is both sheriff and coroner in Riverside County, has defended his department and criticized the state attorney general's investigation into jail deaths.

But she told The Desert Sun the jails changed rapidly after Bianco took office, with a revolving door of staff changes, including firing leaders from the former sheriff's administration. Bianco also established a culture of retaliation against anyone who questioned his leadership, she said in her lawsuit. "We generally had the right practices and procedures," Flores said. "If we followed them, we didn't have anything to worry about. But what I started seeing was too much change, too fast." Now 50, Flores was 20 years old, newly married and weighed "all of a buck-o-five," when she joined the sheriff's department as a correctional officer. As a young recruit in the wake of the Rodney King beating, she learned quickly that departments were under intense scrutiny and Southern California communities demanded ethical policing. "It was very simple," she said. "The expectation was to do what was right." But that's not what she says she saw from Bianco.

In a bid to cut costs, the new sheriff rapidly replaced experienced deputies with younger deputies who were often tasked with supervising each other, she said. The Desert Sun reported on the shift earlier this year in an investigation supported by The New York Times finding that younger deputies who had about half the training replaced those who had previously worked in the jails. Then the pandemic hit. One correctional deputy died from the COVID-19 virus. Staffing plummeted amid the pandemic's pressures. "Too much, too fast," Flores kept repeating, as people she worked with expressed worries about the changes. "The age and experience level of the average deputy was concerning everybody," she said. "We spoke about it constantly in management meetings. We were asking too much of them." Emotions flared as overwork pushed the staff to the brink.

Victoria Flores looks at a photograph of herself when she was a captain with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department during an interview.

In her lawsuit against Bianco, Flores describes reviewing video of a verbal confrontation between deputies and a man. The deputies eventually fought with the man and hurled him against a jail wall with enough force to knock him out. In her suit, she says she saw the deputies on the video using excessive force. But an internal affairs investigation found no violations. "When abuse is covered up without proper discipline, that's how you establish the wrong kind of culture," she told The Desert Sun. "The employees see that this person got in this situation and there was not the proper follow-up."

Three homicides in four months

Under Bianco, Riverside County's Jails tallied three homicides in a matter of just four months spanning 2022 and 2023. But the department only officially reported two of them. In all three cases, The Desert Sun and The New York Times reviewed department investigation reports, photography and some related videos to determine what happened. In one, a deputy remotely opened the cell door instead of physically intervening during the violent attack of a newly jailed man by his cellmate. The attacker picked up the much smaller man and threw him over the jail's second story rail. He later died of his injuries. In another, a man awaiting trial on a violent sexual assault case was housed with a person transitioning gender to female. He strangled her to death in what he later told detectives was a fit of annoyance. In the third, a man stabbed his cell mate multiple times and attempted to hide his body under a sheet. Both were found to have been drinking. A deputy who was 97 minutes late for a security check found the attacker as he was attempting to clean blood from the cell. But even though detainee Erik Martinez pleaded guilty to the murder, Bianco's department did not list his victim among the homicides. It took an investigation by The Desert Sun and The New York Times, to finally officially identify Ulysses Munoz-Ayala as having been murdered. The deputy who arrived late was cleared of any wrongdoing, according to a department report, because internal affairs investigators found that the majority of deputies at that jail had been trained incorrectly on when to do legally required security checks. "When you don't address a problem of training or misconduct, you can expect it to happen again," Flores said. The grand jury released a report in May 2025 confirming the findings by The Desert Sun and The New York Times about another murder in 2024. In that incident, the grand jury found staff incorrectly identified a man with a violent criminal history and placed him in a vocational program with no guards, where he stabbed and killed another detainee with a screwdriver.

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During the grand jury investigation of the county's jail deaths, Flores alleges in her lawsuit, jurors requested to speak with her. But she says Bianco told her to call out sick so she couldn't speak with the jury. Afraid of retaliation if she didn't do what Bianco asked, she decided to take a vacation day. "The only person that asked me to lie my whole time with the department was Bianco," she said. "If the jurors can't pull witnesses, they can't do their job." The civil grand jury submitted its findings to the county's Board of Supervisors. The department's undersheriff accepted most of the findings and said the department has implemented changes to address them, including the repair of a broken fingerprint machine used to accurately identify people who are arrested.

Drug overdoses and deaths

As deaths from drug overdoses spiked, Flores suspected that someone on the staff was trafficking fentanyl. Then in late 2023 a deputy who drove inmates to court dates and other appointments was arrested by fellow deputies after a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation. He was charged, and later convicted, after he was caught with 100 pounds of fentanyl in his trunk while he was off duty. The official line from the department was that there is no evidence that the deputy – or any other – dealt drugs in the jail, according to a department press release at the time. But the public never saw the evidence because the deputy pleaded guilty before trial. When a man held in the jail overdosed, Flores says in her lawsuit, her supervisor told her not to notify other jail leaders, which would have been standard practice. The man, who had survived, was instead quietly released later, with no paper trail documenting the health emergency, Flores contends.

Cindy Garcia Lance, from Blythe, Calif., left, takes a photo with Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco while attending former president Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, Calif., Oct. 12, 2024. his rally in Coachella, Calif., Oct. 12, 2024.

Drug overdoses and the deaths related to them are the fault of inmates who use and sell drugs in the jails, Bianco has said. Flores said as a jail leader she believed the department could have regained control of the situation if they had thoroughly investigated the deaths and were transparent with their findings. Instead, she felt the lack of accountability dangerously destabilized the operation. "When I saw that there was wrongdoing, because things weren't followed up with correctly, that's when the fear set in," she said.

'Don't embarrass the sheriff'

Rumors began to spread among the department in 2022 that Bianco planned to run for governor in 2026, according to several sources. The same year, the county's jails experienced the most in-custody deaths on record, 19, or more than double the average. The number of deaths has fallen since as scrutiny of the department has increased. As the deadliest year in the jails' history ended, families were publicly describing their struggle to learn basic information from Bianco's office about how their relatives had died. They were demanding an outside investigation. In 2023, the California Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. It continues today. "When the DOJ stepped in is when I really started to notice the cultural shift," Flores said. "The mantra was: 'We need to protect the sheriff.' 'Don't embarrass the sheriff.' He didn't want anything said that would draw outside attention." In internal meetings, Flores said, leaders urged top supervisors to maintain silence and rally around Bianco, who publicly mocked the investigation as a political stunt.

Victoria Flores is a former captain with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who has filed a lawsuit claiming the department has not been honest about the surge in deaths in its jails. She described the department's culture of secrecy and retaliation during an interview.

"This investigation is based on nothing but false, misleading statements, and straight-out lies from activists, including their attorneys," Bianco said when the investigation was announced, referring to relatives of the dead as political advocates. Flores said that any internal echoes of the calls for accountability were swiftly countered. "When people pushed back, they were moved, transferred and fired," Flores said. "It wasn't difficult to conclude that they were targeted because of their resistance. There are people who work there right now who are absolutely miserable and in fear." Flores' suit says that jail staff were transferred to new facilities so they wouldn't be questioned about allegations of misconduct at their previous assignments. Department administrators implemented a policy to file criminal charges in every case in which there was a confrontation between deputies and detainees to make detainees' claims of abuse less credible, according to her suit. Flores and other jail leaders said the additional charges would keep detainees in jail longer and delay the resolution of their original cases. Most of those she worked with, she added, needed behavioral health treatment, not more jail time. When jail leaders dissented, they were transferred. "I made it very clear to the administration that I would not lie to the Department of Justice," Flores said. "I made it clear to my other bosses and the county's counsel that I would not lie. And that's when my life became a living hell." She was at the department's shooting range in November 2023 for a routine firearms qualification when a range employee reported that he saw her break safety and reporting rules. The allegations were false, Flores says in her lawsuit, a pretext to fire her. She was officially fired the following July.

'Right is right and wrong is wrong'

A year later, Bianco is an announced candidate for governor and Flores is speaking out. In her wrongful termination lawsuit against Bianco, Flores describes how many of the sheriff's employees were fired or charged with crimes while others were let off with little or no discipline. And she raises questions about department spending that she says benefitted Bianco and his political allies.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco takes the stage to announce his candidacy for Governor in Riverside, Calif., Feb. 17, 2025.

But she said she's most concerned with exposing abuses in the jail, many of which she witnessed firsthand. Bianco has repeatedly made public comments ridiculing the relatives of the dead. He has said the families should blame the drug use of their relatives and accused them of using the deaths to advance the agendas of his political opponents. "Did their parents ever demand they take responsibility for their own actions?" Bianco posted on social media in response to an article about relatives asking for outside investigations of each jail death. And when speaking in opposition to a failed motion for a civilian oversight board to review custody deaths in the county, he dismissed the relatives of the dead as being political pawns: "We are here because of a lie. A lie perpetuated by disingenuous politicians, activists, and complicit media that dismisses the truth for sensationalist headlines that divide us." Flores said instead of fighting them, she urges the department to sit down with families as soon as possible after the deaths of their relatives and tell them what happened. Forcing them to wait years to get the findings of investigations that are almost always verified by security camera footage is unacceptable, she said. "It's appalling, in my opinion, and it prolongs the family's suffering," said Flores. "Why should they have to fight and litigate just to find out the simple truth?" But change has been slow to come. After fierce opposition to the plan from Bianco, the county's elected board of supervisors recently rejected a proposal to establish civilian oversight of the department, which would have included an inspector general. Flores said she didn't previously support such a board but does now.

"With this current administration, it's necessary," Flores said. "The grand jury can serve its oversight role only when it's able to call all witnesses. In my opinion, the jury is rendered ineffective when the department makes witnesses unavailable."

While Flores is supported by The Signals Network, a whistleblower protection group, she said she's resigned herself to the fate of others who have similarly taken a public stand. She's ready for the attacks on her character, the same kind she said she has seen Bianco levy toward the families that have asked for oversight and transparency in the past.

"Whistleblowers are almost always vilified," she said. "But right is right, and wrong is wrong. What's been happening in that department for years is simply wrong."

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What is antifa? Trump wants group designated as a terrorist organization Josh Meyer, USA TODAYSeptember 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM 0 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he is "designating" antifa as a major terrorist organization following the Sept. 10 slaying of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he is "designating" antifa as a major terrorist organization following the Sept. 10 slaying of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

But what is the anti-fascist movement, known collectively as antifa? And what does Trump designating a terrorist organization mean?

Authorities have not confirmed any direct links between Kirk's accused killer, Tyler James Robinson, and antifa, which is more of a broad political concept than an actual organization with members, leadership or a headquarters that can be targeted, experts say.

But Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other administration officials have repeatedly blamed left-leaning groups for stirring up hostility towards conservatives that they say contributed to Kirk's assassination. Although the investigation is ongoing, authorities have said Robinson expressed anti-fascist views and killed Kirk because he said he "had enough of his hatred." (Many on the left have noted Kirk's statements such as lamenting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and calling transgender people "a throbbing middle finger to God.")

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Trump supporters praised his move. But critics – including some former counterterrorism officials and extremism experts − said it's an effort to undermine free speech protections and criminalize the actions of groups that oppose the president.

What is antifa?

According to the Congressional Research Service, "antifa" refers to individuals who "view themselves as part of a protest tradition that arcs back to opposition groups in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy prior to World War II."

CRS, the independent research arm of Congress, also noted in a June 2020 report that "the U.S. antifa movement appears to be decentralized, consisting of independent, radical, like-minded groups and individuals."

Although antifa tenets "can echo the principles of anarchism, socialism, and communism," the CRS report said, adherents can also support a broad range of other causes. That includes "environmentalism, the rights of indigenous populations, and gay rights."

A man with an Antifa badge walks with Detroit Detroit Will Breathe members and other organizations as they march through the city of Detroit on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 while demanding the counting of all votes for the 2020 elections.A broad array of tactics and targets

Antifa tactics have varied widely, including peaceful protests, organizing, information campaigns and mutual aid, as well as more confrontational and at times illegal direct action. That includes setting fires, damaging property and physically confronting or attacking law enforcement.

In the United States, much of antifa activity has been "reciprocal radicalization at the micro-level" in which protesters on the left engage in standoffs – and sometimes violent clashes − with extremists on the right like the Proud Boys, according to a November 2021 report by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

In the 1980s, antifa groups were mostly antiracists mobilizing against the activities of racistskinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and neo-Nazis.

Founded in 2007, the Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon, is the oldest U.S. group to use "antifa" in its moniker, according to the CRS.

Violence 'pales in comparison' to other extremists

Antifa groups gained particular prominence following violent clashes between white supremacists and their opponents, including antifa activists, in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.

"By certain metrics, such as human casualties and frequency of attacks, the violence committed by (antifa) actors in the past decade pales in comparison to other categories of violent extremists," such as racially and ethnically motivated, and anti-government, violent extremists, said the GWU report, titled, "Anarchist/Left-Wing Violent Extremism in America: Trends in Radicalization, Recruitment, and Mobilization."

"Nevertheless, this dynamic is subject to change, and ongoing trends in American society could lead to increased frequency and lethality of (antifa) attacks," the report said.

What did Trump do against antifa?

In a Sept. 17 post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said:

"I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION."

Trump said he would also be strongly recommending that "those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."

The president indicated his support for designating antifa as a domestic terror organization earlier in the week, prompting the House of Representatives to expedite legislation by a conservative Republican lawmaker to do just that.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who introduced the legislation on Jan. 9, announced on Sept. 11 that she had "just received word from the Speaker that he is fully supporting my bill to designate ANTIFA as a terrorist organization, and it will be placed in the State Department reauthorization bill that will be going through committee this week."

Luna's legislation cites multiple instances of violence allegedly committed or instigated by antifa across the United States including riots in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, resulting in what she said was billions of dollars in damage and the assault of law enforcement officers.

Luna's bill said that in May 2020, the Department of Justice formally labeled antifa violence as domestic terrorism.

Can Trump actually designate Antifa as a terrorist organization?

It's not clear from Trump's social media post exactly what legal designation he has in mind for antifa. When a group like Hamas is labeled a foreign terrorist organization, the government can freeze its assets and make it a crime to provide material support, like money, to the group.

Javed Ali, a former senior U.S. counterterrorism official, told USA TODAY that it's unclear at the moment if Trump's statement is rhetorical "or actually has some legal or policy foundation behind it."

The only list of designated terrorist groups maintained by the U.S. government is the Foreign Terrorist Organization managed by the State Department. And under U.S. law, Ali said, any group considered as an Foreign Terrorist Organization "has to be based overseas, and engage in terrorist attacks against U.S. interests."

The GWU Program on Extremism report notes the "infeasibility of designating a domestic ideological movement as a foreign terrorist organization."

The FBI defines domestic terrorism as acts of illegal violence committed in the country by individuals or groups "without any foreign direction, and appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion," the CRS says. With the U.S. government's loose definition of antifa encompassing anarchists and those holding other violent extremist ideologies on the left, it meets that definition of "domestic terrorism."

The FBI has confirmed that antifa and affiliated groups are subjects of ongoing domestic terrorism investigations. But the agency hasn't designated any "domestic terrorist organizations." That's because federal law only includes a way to designate foreign terrorist organizations.

No comparable legal authority exists for domestic groups, the Harvard Law Review said in a May 2023 report. Also, the CRS noted, "Doing so may infringe on First Amendment-protected free speech—belonging to an ideological group in and of itself is not a crime in the United States."

Apart from a possible Foreign Terrorist Organization designation against antifa, Ali said, the Trump administration may be considering how to achieve the same result through an executive order.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia's presidential administration, had resigned, but did not say why or what he would do next.

The RBC news outlet had earlier reported that Kozak had sent a resignation later and was considering various options to go into business.

Asked about the report, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:

"I can confirm that Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak has resigned. At his own request."

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Inside United Airlines' nerve center: How thousands of flights stay on track every day Kennedy HayesSeptember 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM 0 If you've ever boarded a United Airlines flight, there's a good chance your journey was quietly guided by a massive team working behind the scenes, far from the airpor...

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Kennedy HayesSeptember 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM

If you've ever boarded a United Airlines flight, there's 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 United's global operations, including departures and arrivals in major airport hubs.

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Screens monitor airport conditions across the country.

"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.

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Magaritz says the job is all about constant coordination and expecting the unexpected.

"It's 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.

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The weather team at United Airlines keeps a constant eye on the forecast.

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One 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 United's network, and flagging any events that might delay or ground flights.

"In some cases, we've 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.

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"Turbulence, icing, bad weather at the destination airport, if anything's 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.

United Airlines Network Operations Center is located just outside of Chicago.

"It's about that comfort level of knowing you're not out there by yourself," Margaritz said. "You're not just buying a ticket and hoping you'll make it to your destination. There are entire teams and thousands of people working in the background."

United 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.

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2 HyperGrowth Tech Stocks to Buy in 2025 Geoffrey Seiler, The Motley FoolSeptember 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM 0 Key Points Palantir has been seeing its revenue accelerate, and it has a huge opportunity ahead with its AI platform. SoundHound AI is turning toward agentic AI to power its next phase of growth.

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In Q2, its revenue jumped 48% to $1 billion, with U.S. commercial sales nearly doubling and government revenue up 53%. Palantir is adding new customers at a furious pace, while existing customers are spending a lot more, with net dollar retention hitting 128%.

The key to Palantir's success is its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). The company was originally founded as a data gathering and analytics company focused on helping the U.S. government with mission-critical tasks such as tracking terrorism. Today, it still uses that data gathering expertise, but now it organizes it into an ontology mapping that data to real-world assets. AIP then sits on top of that clean data layer, letting companies deploy the large language model of their choice with far less risk of hallucinations or security issues. This essentially makes AIP an artificial intelligence operating system.

AIP is being used across a wide array of industries for very different tasks. This includes everything from helping a hospital monitor for sepsis to helping a telecom customer optimize and accelerate the decommissioning of its old equipment, to helping companies proactively manage their tariff exposure. The breadth of use cases for AI is just enormous, and the company has a very long growth runway in front of it.

Palantir's stock is expensive, but great companies rarely trade cheap, and Palantir has shown quarter after quarter that demand for AIP is only accelerating. If AI adoption is still in the early innings, Palantir could be one of the defining winners of the decade. Don't expect a smooth ride, but this is a stock worth owning for the long term.

SoundHound AI

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) is much smaller than Palantir, but its growth story is just as compelling. Revenue has been booming for the company, surging 217% last quarter to $42.7 million. While the company isn't yet profitable, it is expecting to exit 2025 with positive adjusted EBITDA profitability.

SoundHound started as a music recognition solution and transformed itself into an AI voice company. It developed speech-to-meaning and deep-meaning-understanding technology that can process speech in real time, even before someone is finished talking, while recognizing someone's intent. It later acquired Amelia to add conversational intelligence and fill in gaps in a variety of industries, such as healthcare and financial services, that have their own jargon.

With Amelia in tow, the company is now moving into its next phase centered around agentic AI. Its new Amelia 7.0 platform can power AI agents that not only answer questions but can act on them. Because SoundHound's technology was designed from the ground up to understand intent, its platform can deliver more natural, accurate interactions than traditional chatbots. It has even added real-time visual recognition, which means its agents can respond to voice and visual inputs together. The company is currently transitioning its 15 largest customers to Amelia 7.0, which should continue to drive growth as those deployments ramp up.

SoundHound is still an early-stage company, and competition in AI agents is fierce, but its voice-first approach could be a real differentiator as the market moves toward multimodal AI systems that combine text, speech, and vision. If you've ever used a voice assistant that doesn't understand what you're saying, you know how frustrating that can be, and SoundHound's technology is built to solve exactly that problem. If it can establish itself as the leader in conversational and agentic AI, the upside could be enormous.

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Prediction: This Will Be Nvidia's Stock Price 5 Years From Now Geoffrey Seiler, The Motley FoolSeptember 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM 0 Key Points Nvidia built a wide moat around its GPU business. The AI infrastructure market is expected to continue to surge over the next five years.

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Key Points -

Nvidia built a wide moat around its GPU business.

The AI infrastructure market is expected to continue to surge over the next five years.

The company is well positioned to continue to capture a big percentage of this opportunity.

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has gone from powering video games to powering the future. The company is now the backbone of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, and investors have been rewarded as the stock has soared. The key question now is whether that run still has room, or if much of the upside has already been priced in.

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An AI giant

Nvidia's dominance isn't just about the powerful chips it's designed; it's about the ecosystem it's built around them. Nvidia originally created graphics processing units (GPUs) as a way to speed up graphics rendering in video games, but in order to try to expand their use into other markets, it developed a software platform called CUDA that allowed its chips to be programmed for other purposes.

The uptake of GPUs in other markets was slow, but the company made the smart decision to push the platform into universities and research labs, which is where early AI development was being done. This led to a generation of developers being trained on its technology, and most AI software code being written using CUDA.

When AI eventually went mainstream, CUDA already had a huge amount of libraries and tools written on top of it to help improve the performance of its chips for AI tasks. This created a wide moat, as switching to a rival would require rewriting massive amounts of code and retraining developers. That's a big reason why Nvidia had a whopping 94% market share in GPU chips in Q2 and why its position is so hard to disrupt.

Nvidia also saw early on that simply having great chips wouldn't be enough. It created a proprietary interconnect system called NVLink that allows multiple of its GPUs to operate together as a single unit, which is essential for training the ever-larger AI models being developed today. Its 2020 acquisition of Mellanox, meanwhile, expanded its data center networking capabilities, and is the reason why today the company can offer customers complete end-to-end AI factories. While Nvidia's GPUs get all the press, last quarter its data center growth was driven by its networking revenue, which nearly doubled to $7.3 billion.

AI spending is not slowing down, and neither is Nvidia. The company estimates that the AI infrastructure market could grow from roughly $600 billion today to as much as $4 trillion in the next several years. Cloud computing providers are still racing to add capacity, and demand for chips to handle inference, the ones that power AI applications once they are trained, is only just beginning. Nvidia is positioned to benefit from both training and inference demand, which could make its current revenue run rate look small a few years from now.

That said, there are risks. The company's edge in inference is not quite as big as it is for training, which opens the door for more custom chip usage and for rival Advanced Micro Devices to take some share. For now, though, Nvidia's technology lead and software moat give it a powerful advantage that won't be easy to unseat.

A black computer chip with the letters AI on it.

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Nvidia's five-year outlook

Nvidia has implied it could continue to grow revenue at a 50% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The revenue consensus for its current fiscal year ending in January is around $206 billion. At that pace of growth, its 2028 revenue (essentially its fiscal year 2029 ending in January) would be around $700 billion. From there, let's assume revenue growth slows to 35% for fiscal 2030 and then 25% for fiscal 2031.

If the company's adjusted operating expenses increased an average of 7% quarter over quarter through 2030 (fiscal 2031) and its gross margin remained around 73%, and we apply a 15% tax rate on its operating income, Nvidia could generate over $660 billion in adjusted earnings by 2030 (fiscal 2031), or $27 per share, at its current share count of 24.5 billion. Place a 20 times to 25 times price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) multiple on the stock, and its share price would be between $540 and $675 in five years.

Below is a basic model of what its revenue and earnings growth would look like.

Metric

FY 2027

FY 2028

FY 2029

FY 2030

FY 2031

Revenue

$310 billion

$464 billion

$697 billion

$941 billion

$1.18 trillion

Gross Profit

$226 billion

$339 billion

$509 billion

$687 billion

$859 billion

Adjusted operating expenses

$27 billion

$36 billion

$47 billion

$61 billion

$80 billion

Operating Income

$199 billion

$303 billion

$462 billion

$626 billion

$779 billion

Net Income

$169 billion

$258 billion

$392 billion

$532 billion

$662 billion

$6.90

$10.51

$16.01

$21.71

$27.01

Estimates based on author calculations.

Nvidia's stock still has plenty of room to run over the new five years, and there is the possibility it could still triple from here to $600 or more (it currently trades around $175 a share). While there are risks, it still has huge upside potential.

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Ukraine seeking new fouryear lending programme with IMF September 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM 0 G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Italy KYIV (Reuters) Ukraine's finance minister Serhii Marchenko said on Friday that the country was seeking a new fouryear lending programme from the I...

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G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Italy

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's finance minister Serhii Marchenko said on Friday that the country was seeking a new four-year lending programme from the IMF.

Ukraine's current $15.5 billion programme with the IMF expires in 2027.

"As you know, there was a recent IMF mission, and we raised the issue of the need for a new programme and the need for its financing," Marchenko told Ukraine's parliament.

"Overall, the funds needed to finance a four-year programme could amount to between $150 billion and $170 billion over a four-year period."

Marchenko also told parliament that the unfunded gap in Ukraine's budget for 2026 was currently $18.1 billion.

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Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times's recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on the NYT website and app.

With daily themes and "spangrams" to discover, this is the latest addicting game to cross off your to-do list before a new one pops up 24 hours later.

We'll cover exactly how to play Strands, hints for today's spangram and all of the answers for Strands #565 on Friday, September 19.

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How To Play Strands

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According to the New York Times, here's exactly how to play Strands:

Find theme words to fill the board.

Theme words stay highlighted in blue when found.

Drag or tap letters to create words. If tapping, double tap the last letter to submit.

Theme words fill the board entirely. No theme words overlap.

Find the "spangram."

The spangram describes the puzzle's theme and touches two opposite sides of the board. It may be two words.

The spangram highlights in yellow when found.

An example spangram with corresponding theme words: PEAR, FRUIT, BANANA, APPLE, etc.

Need a hint?

Find non-theme words to get hints.

For every three non-theme words you find, you earn a hint.

Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word's letter order.

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What Is Today's Strands Hint for the Theme: "Pour it on"?

A hint for today's Strands game is "mix with cereal."

What Are Today's NYT Strands Hints?

Warning: Spoilers ahead!In today's puzzle, there are seven theme words to find (including the spangram). Here are the first two letters for each word:

NO (SPANGRAM)

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NYT Strands Spangram Answer Today

Today's spangram answer on Today's NYT 'Strands' Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday, September 19, 2025, is NONDAIRYMILK.

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SPANGRAM: NONDAIRYMILK

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