Reuters World News - Kimmel criticism, Nvidia-Intel, vaccines and France protests

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

The pulling of Jimmy Kimmel’s show has ignited a debate on free speech and drawn anger from both sides of the political aisle. Nvidia takes a $5 billion stake in Intel offering a new lifeline to the struggling chipmaker. A CDC panel votes against a combined MMRV shot for children under four. Plus, hundreds of thousands protest in France against austerity measures.  Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter here. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast here. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, the pulling of Jimmy Kimmel's show draws criticism from both sides of the political aisle. Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Intel gives a struggling company a lifeline. RFK Junior's vaccine panel recommends a change to the children's schedules. And protesters in France call for an end to austerity measures. It's Friday, September 19th. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything. you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. I'm Tara Oaks in Liverpool.

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Press. I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. Trump earlier said Kimmel's late-night show was pulled off the air as a consequence of bad ratings, not a violation of the First Amendment. ABC's decision to pull the show has added fuel to a national debate over free speech. A reporter Dawn Chimalusky says it's generated some criticism

from people you might not think of as supporters of a late-night host. So it's got a range of really interesting responses. The people who have stepped forward or perhaps not those who you think of as natural allies. Conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Barry Weiss have all stepped forward in defense of the First Amendment. Ben Shapiro actually had some really thoughtful remarks about this.

He said, look, the FCC has muddied the waters here by threatening to revoke the license of a television station for airing programming that it finds objectionable, that opens the door to political opponents, eventually retaliating against conservative commentators at some point in the future. He said, this sort of cuts both ways. This is a sort of theme that reverberated among conservative commentators who saw the potential harms of this down the road. U.S. opposition to this resolution will come as no surprise. It fails to condemn Hamas or recognize Israel's right to defend itself.

U.S. diplomat Morgan Ortegas vetoing a draft U.N. Security Council resolution for a Gaza ceasefire, a lifting of restrictions on aid into the enclave and the release of all Israeli hostages. It's the sixth time the U.S. has cast a veto during the nearly two-year war. And in Gaza City, Israeli forces control the eastern suburbs, and they've been pounding air from where they could advance on central and western Gaza city where most of the population is sheltering. Phone and internet lines were cut off for several hours across most of the Gaza Strip yesterday, signaling a potential escalation in ground operations. Now to a surprising development in the tech industry.

Invidia is throwing its weight behind Intel and investing $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker. The news comes just weeks after the US government took a 10% stake in Intel, a rare move to help shore up America's tech sector. Tech reporter Stephen Nellis says the deal gives Intel a shot at relevance in the AI race. I think the initial reaction here is to think that Intel is getting more here because, let's be honest, the company does need capital. And Intel is also getting to ride on the success of Nvidia in the AI markets. But I think it's important to remember that Nvidia is getting something out of this too.

They've made stabs at making the same category of central processor that Intel has made. And they've hit some real limit. They have not conquered all of the business to business markets and government computing markets that they probably could, in part because Intel still dominates there. So while on the one hand, it's tempting to think that Intel is getting everything out of this deal. And it's helpful to remember that even in its diminished state as of late, Intel still has this huge, huge software ecosystem and customer base that Nvidia has been struggling to crack and is now going to get access to with some interesting combined products. Stephen says the deal signifies that big companies are still vulnerable as some of their crucial parts are made outside the U.S. What Intel really needs to straighten out its business is a big customer like Nvidia to come and ask Intel to manufacture its chips, Intel's factories. This deal does not do that, but it is a very close collaboration that a lot of analysts are reading as a potential first step closer to it.

So it may take a few more years, but it's certainly encouraging movement toward that end goal for Intel. President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let him fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, despite a lower court's decision to block the move. Trump claims Cook committed mortgage fraud before taking office, which Cook denies. The lower court judge has ruled that those claims aren't sufficient grounds for removal under the law that created the Fed. A CDC panel has voted to change recommendations on childhood vaccination schedules. It's recommending splitting a single vaccine for mumps, measles, rubella and varicela, also known as chickenpox, into two shops.

The votes are the first from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 12-member advisory committee on immunization practices and come as he's moving to remake U.S. vaccine policy. Our global health and pharma editor in New York, Michelle Gershberg, explains. The U.S. vaccine advisors have recommended. that parents should only be offered two shots, one that combines measles, mumps, and rebella, and then the second one for chickenpox. The other thing that they voted on was whether or not the hepatitis B vaccine, which is currently recommended for newborns, should be delayed until an infant has reached the age of one month. However, for reasons that they did not fully

explain, they are planning to take a new vote on the hepatitis B vaccine later to. today. Public health experts say the change in recommendation could have a significant impact if approved. That will have impacts in terms of insurance coverage. We still have to figure that out completely. And that will have impact on what families are being told when they bring their child in for immunization. It is already possible to choose to split this up into two vaccines. And many families do that. But for families who would prefer to have fewer trips to the pediatricians office, and the concern is that that means it will not be available to them. Hundreds of thousands joining anti-austerity protests across France. Teachers, train drivers,

pharmacists, and hospital staff were among those who went on strike, while teenagers blocked dozens of high schools for hours. Protests were urging President Emmanuel Macron to scrap looming budget cuts. Airbus helicopter's worker, Fujidilu, says workers are fed up with austerity. Unions are calling for more spending on public services, higher taxes on the wealthy, and for the reversal of an unpopular change

making people work longer to get a pension. In France's southern port city of Marseille, thousands marched singing anti-fascist anthem Bella Chow and holding placards calling to tax the rich. In Paris, police threw tear gas to disperse some protesters dressed in black, who held beer cans and stones at them. But the interior minister said that the level of violence was not as high as initially feared. And it's Friday, so we'll close the pot with a recommended listen for you.

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