The ABC is set to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show, after he was pulled off air last week over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” ABC said a statement. In a monologue, Kimmel criticized “MAGA land” for attempting to exploit Kirk’s death and “the MAGA gang” for trying to portray the suspect involved in the assassination of the conservative activist,as anything other than one of them.”  Kimmel has hosted Jimmy...

A Jamaican man who was among five migrants deported by the United States to Eswatini in Africa has been repatriated to his home country, Eswatini authorities said Monday. Orville Etoria was held in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini for more than two months without charges or access to legal counsel, his lawyers have said, accusing the U.S. of deporting him there unlawfully in mid-July. The lawyers had said the U.S. sent him to the southern African nation under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program even though Jamaica was willing to take him back. They alleged Etoria and the four other...

As the Gaza war rages on, France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict. More nations are expected to follow, in defiance of Israel and the United States. French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement in the U.N. General Assembly hall received loud applause from the more than 140 leaders in attendance. The Palestinian delegation, including its U.N. ambassador, Riyad Mansour, could be seen standing and applauding as the declaration was made. “True to the historic commitment of my country to...

A new United Nations report details a Nicaragua tightly in the grasp of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, where the legislative and judicial branches answer to the executive and basic human rights protections are gone. Little of that will come as a surprise to the tens of thousands of Nicaraguans who have the fled country in recent years, but the report of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights discusses the Central American country’s continuing deterioration in the starkest terms. The report scheduled to be presented in Geneva Tuesday, was compiled from more than 200 interviews with victims, witnesses and other...

Ukraine Faces A New Test As Russia Steps Up Its Drive To Seize Donetsk’s Fortress Belt Fall is expected to bring another grueling test for Ukraine’s armed forces as Russia intensifies its campaign to seize an eastern region, once Ukraine’s industrial heartland and a territory it has long sought to conquer. Russia now controls about 70% of the Donetsk region. Ukraine’s forces have been pushed back to a string of four cities that analysts have dubbed its “fortress belt,” where they’ve repelled Moscow’s efforts to seize the region for years. But shortages of troops, supplies and chaotic management are making...