CBS has announced the cancellation of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, set to conclude in May 2026 This is coming three days after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump. Colbert admitted he only learned of the network’s decision “last night,” leaving fans stunned by the sudden news: “I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away.” Top CBS executives said in a statement announcing the news said: “This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night, it is not related in any way to the show’s performance,...

Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to settle a multibillion dollar lawsuit with a group of shareholders over how top executives and directors at Meta handled repeated privacy violations by Facebook. The shareholders were seeking $8bn (£6bn) in damages. It is unclear how much they agreed to settle for. The settlement was announced on Thursday by a lawyer for the shareholders, just before the trial was about to enter its second day in a Delaware court. Meta declined to comment on the settlement. The Meta shareholders had alleged that Mr Zuckerberg’s actions led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the data...

Indonesian police have uncovered an international baby trafficking syndicate which has allegedly sold at least 25 infants to buyers in Singapore since 2023. Authorities made 13 arrests related to the syndicate in the Indonesian cities of Pontianak and Tangerang this week, and rescued six babies who were about to be trafficked – all of whom are around a year old. “The babies were first housed in Pontianak and had their immigration documents arranged before being sent to Singapore,” West Java Police’s director of general criminal investigation, Surawan, told BBC News Indonesia. BBC News has contacted Singapore Police and Singapore’s Ministry...

A man was charged Thursday with murder and burglary counts in the fatal shootings of “American Idol” music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband in their Los Angeles home last week, the district attorney’s office said. Raymond Boodarian, 22, could face life in prison in the July 10 shooting deaths of Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, both 70, after the couple returned home while he was burglarizing the residence, officials said. Kaye, who has been with “American Idol” since 2009, and her husband were found dead in their Encino home on Monday after police conducted a welfare check and found blood...

Two married Iranian students at Louisiana State University were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this week after they were arrested in June in what their attorneys describe as a “ruse” orchestrated by government agents. Attorneys for Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad and Parisa Firouzabadi had challenged their detentions and accused the government of violating the law and immigration procedures. The American Civil Liberties Union’s Louisiana chapter announced their release Wednesday. The two graduate students, who were detained for nearly a month, were “lured” out of their home by ICE agents who told them they were investigating a hit-and-run the couple had...

 Police in India’s southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found by police during a routine patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a popular tourist site on the coast of Karnataka, on July 9. Police officer Sridhar S.R. said the family had been living in the cave for more than a week. Police said they were taking steps to repatriate Kutina to Russia for overstaying her visa. She and her children have been moved to...

I challenge anybody to mention one person who’s better than Tinubu out of all, I mean all the Politicians grouping themselves to form coalition claiming to come back & rescue Nigeria they couldn’t rescue for 40 years as if they’re not the ones who actually looted Nigeria treasury to the shadow of itself….Mention any name among them who had not held very important office of opportunity to rescue Nigeria, instead of rescuing Nigeria, they were busy stealing till God divenly chased them out of office… Now, they’re regrouping to come back, kill & nail Nigeria in their so called rescue...