Jimmy Kimmel makes emotional return, Disney hits millions with price hikes: Unbiased Updates, Sept. 24, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel back on Late Night

Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take a joke

A tearful defense of free speech and a fierce clapback from the White House

Plus, Trump flips the script, now calling Russia a paper tiger and pushing Ukraine to fight for every inch

And streaming sticker shock. Disney, Hulu, ESPN, all going up. The September surprise hitting millions of subscribers

The stories that matter, clear and credible from across the country to around the world

These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News. Good morning, I'm Craig DiGrelli

We begin this morning with the dramatic return of Jimmy Kimmel back on late night TV

after a week-long suspension that sparked a national firestorm over free speech

Kimmel walked onto stage to a standing ovation and opened with a raw 15-minute monologue

addressing his comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk while taking aim at President Donald Trump and the Federal Communications Commission

Watch. I don't think what I have to say is going to make much of a difference. If you like me, you like me

If you don't, you don't. I have no illusions about changing anyone's mind. But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human

And that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man

This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this

Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country

And that's something I'm embarrassed to say I took for granted until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air

and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air

That's not legal. That's not American. That is un-American. And it is so dangerous

The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me

and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs

Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can take a joke You almost have to feel sorry for him He tried did his best to cancel me Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show That backfired bigly

He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now

President Trump responding to Kimmel's return on Truth Social last night, slamming the host as not funny, a ratings liability, and accusing ABC of pushing

quote, 99% Democrat garbage. He then wrote, we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do

Now to a notable shift from President Trump changing his tune on Moscow and the war in

Ukraine. After months of suggesting Kiev would have to give up land for peace, Trump now says

Ukraine can win back all its territory. And he's calling for NATO to shoot down Russian aircraft

that violate Alliance airspace. The comments came as Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. When asked about NATO response to Russian airspace violations, Trump was blunt

Watch. Mr. President, do you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft

if they enter their airspace? Yes, I do. Later on Truth Social, Trump declared that Ukraine, backed by Europe

is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form

He called Russia a paper tiger, saying the war is bleeding Moscow dry

In Trump's speech earlier in the day, he took aim at some of the United Nations' core priorities

He blasted global migration, called climate change, quote, the greatest con job ever, and urged nations to put strong borders above UN goals

It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now

I can tell you, I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell

In America, we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration

Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming

They're not coming anymore. We're getting a lot of credit, but they're not coming anymore. The speech drew silence from much of the room and sharp criticism from European allies who warned his views on immigration and green energy could weaken the West Dubbed as the strongest storm on the planet this year

Typhoon Ragasa is slamming parts of Asia with deadly force. The scenes are staggering, hurricane force winds and torrential rain have triggered flash flooding across Taiwan

Dozens are dead, more than 150 people are still missing and entire towns are underwater

In mainland China, nearly 2 million people have been evacuated as Ragasa barrels toward densely populated coastal cities

The storm also disrupted life in Hong Kong, a global financial hub where 100-mile-an-hour winds tore through high-rises and monstrous waves smashed into seaside hotels

Ragasa is the ninth typhoon to strike the region this year, far above the average of six

And forecasters say its impacts could be felt for days as the system churns inland

Hundreds of federal employees who were laid off when Elon Musk's Department of Government

Deficiency slash jobs are now being asked to come back. The Associated Press reports the

General Services Administration has given former staff who manage government workspaces until the

end of the week to decide if they will return. An internal memo obtained by the AP says anyone who

accepts must report for duty October 6th after what has amounted to a seven-month paid vacation

for many. The GSA reinstatements are part of a broader rehiring push across agencies targeted

by doge cuts, including at the IRS and the Labor Department. It's not just Jimmy Kimmel's return

making headlines at Disney this week. The company is also hiking its streaming prices. Disney

announcing Tuesday that starting October 21st, Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN plans will all cost

more. Let's have a look. The basic Disney Plus plan goes from $9.99 a month to $11.99 a month

The ad-free version up to $18.99. The Disney Plus bundle with Hulu goes up to $12.99 a month

for the base plan and $19.99 a month for ad-free. And the Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN bundle plan

increases to a month and a month The timing is tough for Disney Millions of subscribers canceled their plans in protest after ABC owned by Disney suspended Kimmel show last week Disney reversed course on Monday but the subscription boycott highlighted just how quickly viewers can walk

The company says the price hike puts them in line with competitors like Netflix and Apple

Finally this morning, this is really cool. A fossil find in Argentina is turning heads

Not just a new dinosaur species, but evidence of its last meal

Listen to this. Scientists have unearthed a newly identified carnivore. They've nicknamed the Joaquin Raptor

The fossil was found with an ancient crocodile's leg still jammed between its jaws

In other words, the dinosaur ate the crocodile. I mean, it's something you'd see on Animal Planet

The predator belongs to a group called Megaraptorans, known for long skulls and giant hooked claws

Researchers say it's one of the most complete skeletons ever recovered from the group

offering rare insight into these mysterious hunters. The dinosaur is believed to have lived 66 to 70 million years ago

Around the same time, dinosaurs vanished, and tests show it was at least 19 years old when it died

It reminds me of this show back in the 1970s. It was called Land of the Lost

We used to watch it on Saturday mornings. This is true. There was this family that was lost and they were in this like cave tree fort

And the only way out was to get past this dinosaur. So they used to use this log to try and jam it in the dinosaur's mouth and get away

It was the same story every Saturday. We used to watch to see if the family got away and lived

All right, before we head out, here's what we're tracking today. At noon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits down with Russia's foreign minister at the UN

At two, family members whose loved ones died in that midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Blackhawk helicopter back in January make an announcement

Later in New York, Kamala Harris continues her publicity tour for her new memoir, 107 Days

And at seven, the president hosts his latest Rose Garden Club event at the White House

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We'll see you back here tomorrow. For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrowley

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