Good morning. It's Friday, September 19th.
I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, the shutdown standoff in Congress,
why parents are suing AI chatbots, and the secret behind American runner's recent success.
But first, to Disney's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late night show indefinitely,
and what we know about the events that led to it.
As we covered yesterday,
the company pulled the show after two of the largest corporate owners of TV stations in ABC's network,
Nextstar and Sinclair, said that they were not going to air the show.
Disney, as you might know, is ABC's parent company.
Nextstar and Sinclair were upset with remarks that Kimmel made this week about the death of Charlie Kirk in his opening monologue on Monday's show.
We had 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 do everything they can to score political points from it.
In between the finger pointing, there was grieving on Friday,
the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism.
But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.
Kimmel then played this clip of President Trump answering a reporter's question days after the killing.
May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?
I think very good.
And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks.