By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — On the day that the Trump administration challenged ABC’s station licenses, Jimmy Kimmel had a message for President Donald Trump: The show goes on.

On Tuesday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the comedian did not refer to the news about the network’s parent company, Disney, coming under highly unusual scrutiny from the federal government.

Instead, the comedian used a satirical monologue on King Charles and Queen Camilla’s visit to the White House to highlight the hypocrisy of a joke the president made about his marriage to first lady Melania Trump.

During an arrival ceremony for the royals, Trump spoke Tuesday about his parents’ 63-year-marriage, turning to Melania and joking, “That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling, I’m sorry.”

Referencing the controversy around comments he made last week about the first lady, Kimmel playfully asked the audience, “Wait a minute, did he just make a joke about his death?”

“Only Donald Trump would demand that I be fired for making a joke about his old age and then a day later, go out and make a joke about his old age,” Kimmel said.

Disney has been standing by Kimmel while the president, his wife and his aides push to get him fired from ABC.

The FCC’s directive to Disney on Tuesday made no mention of Kimmel, and instead suggested that the license challenge is related to an ongoing FCC investigation of Disney’s diversity initiatives, which Trump opposes.

But the order that Disney must start trying to renew its station licenses – years ahead of schedule – is widely seen as an act of retaliation.

Disney responded by saying that it has been operating “in full compliance with FCC rules” and will “show that through the appropriate legal channels.” The company’s statement invoked the First Amendment, signaling it is willing to fight.

Experts say Disney would likely win that fight if the government tries to revoke the eight licenses the company holds. The protracted legal process for licensing could drag on for years.

“I’m glad to see that Disney is going to push back, because it has the First Amendment on its side,” the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett Outfront.”

Kimmel defends Melania joke

The controversy has intensified public interest in Kimmel’s anti-Trump commentary. Monday night’s monologue racked up more than four million views in less than 24 hours.

All of the interest stems from Kimmel’s comment on last Thursday’s episode about the first lady looking like an “expectant widow.”

“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” Kimmel said during Monday night’s show, in response to the criticism. (Donald Trump is 79; Melania Trump is 56).

In the wake of the shooting outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday, Trump allies have loudly denounced Kimmel and accused him of wanting to get the president killed, a charge he has rejected.

“It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination,” Kimmel said in Monday’s monologue. “And they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.”

Some Trump-boosting podcasters and influencers cheered the FCC’s aggressiveness on Tuesday. But other conservatives, including Senator Ted Cruz, objected to the heavy hand of government approach. “It’s not the government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police,” C

By Hira Humayun, CNN

(CNN) — Ysmael is already feeling the squeeze of rising prices in Haiti. “Everything has gone up,” she says in a World Food Programme video, from the fare for a ride on a “tap-tap” bus to the cost of putting dinner on the table, all due to fuel price hikes linked to the Iran war.

But those who managed to leave the violence-wracked, impoverished nation, making a life for themselves in the United States, are helping people back home stay afloat. That money has been a lifeline for many, in one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world.

That could come to a grinding halt if the US Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians – a status that lets them legally live and work in the US.

In February, the US Supreme Court paused the administration’s termination of TPS – an immigration status granted to people from certain countries where conditions temporarily prevent their nationals from safely returning.

On Wednesday, the court will start to hear oral arguments after the Trump administration appealed the decision.

Ahead of the anticipated termination earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security said the program for Haiti “was never intended to be a de facto asylum program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the administration, opening the door for hundreds of thousands of Haitians to be deported, “it would be like having the rug pulled out from under you,” says Amnesty International USA’s Director of Refugee and Migrant Rights, Amy Fischer.

“We know that people simply cannot be deported safely to Haiti,” says Fischer.

A return to danger

Gang attacks continue to shake the nation, with a spate of deadly assaults in Haiti’s Artibonite region last month. Dozens were killed and thousands fled their homes, pushing Haiti’s existing displacement crisis closer to the brink.

And earlier this month, armed attacks on a police station in the commune of Marigot in the country’s south left at least six dead, according to police.

Haitian rights groups like Defenders Plus, say the violence is even reaching areas that were once seen as “havens of peace.” Armed groups who block roads and key supply routes have made access to necessities near impossible in some cases.

Communities are still facing daily challenges accessing food, water and basic services because of the rampant insecurity, says CARE’s interim country director in Haiti, Rachelle Arnoux.

Jerome Fritsch, a physician at the MSF hospital in Cite Soleil, says the gang violence is hindering people from seeking much-needed medical care. Two weekends ago, he says rival armed groups were fighting, in a flare-up of violence his team says is the worst they’ve seen in the area in two years.

The violence lasted until last Wednesday, but the team still has its guard up. Ready to seek shelter as needed and move patients away from windows where they could be exposed.

“We have no idea if tomorrow it’s going to start again,” he says.

And then there’s the food insecurity that has reached staggering levels for millions of Haitians. According to a recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) projection for March to June 2026, 52 percent of the population are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.

Haiti’s recent catastrophic floods have only compounded the country’s overlapping crises. The United Nations’ humanitarian office said this month th

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst

(CNN) — Eight years ago, in the Supreme Court’s first significant battle over a Donald Trump policy, the justices dismissed the president’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and upheld a travel ban on majority-Muslim countries.

Now, Trump’s lawyers are invoking the decision as they urge the justices to ignore his derogatory comments about Haitians and endorse his plan to deport certain migrants previously granted “temporary protected status” in the US because of turmoil in their home country. The travel ban case allowed the president to defend the ban based on a “legitimate” national security interest, irrespective of whether it had been motivated by animus.

The decision launched the court’s pattern of bolstering Trump’s power. It was also the first major case in which the court’s conservatives adopted what has a become blinkered approach to the president’s biased assertions.

Before he ordered the ban, Trump had claimed, “Islam hates us,” and he vowed “a total and complete shutdown” of Muslim refugees.

“The issue before us today is not whether to denounce the statements,” Chief Justice John Roberts said as he read excerpts of his majority opinion from the bench on that dramatic June 2018 morning. “It is instead the significance of the statements in reviewing a presidential directive neutral on its face, addressing the matter within the core of presidential authority.”

Dissenting justices faulted the majority for “blindly accepting … a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security.”

Perhaps the most significant Trump ruling to date, involving his immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts, relatedly touched on the president’s motives — and put them off-limits. That 2024 case arose from the Justice Department’s election-subversion charges against Trump. (The matter never went to trial, because the Supreme Court intervened.)

“In dividing official from unofficial conduct,” the Supreme Court majority said, “courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.” Dissenting justices complained, “Under that rule, any use of official power for any purpose, even the most corrupt purpose indicated by objective evidence of the most corrupt motives and intent, remains official and immune.”

A query from Justice Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments in the case underscored how some justices balanced Trump’s actions with regard for the office of the presidency.

“Do we look at motives, the president’s motives for his actions?” Gorsuch asked, adding, “I’m not concerned about this case so much as future ones too. … We’re writing a rule for the ages.”

The new dispute to be argued Wednesday puts Trump’s motivations — specifically related to alleged racial animus — clearly in sight.

He has specifically vilified Haitians over the years. Trump described Haiti as a “filthy … shithole” country during his first term and during the 2024 campaign, falsely asserted that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were “eating the dogs,” “eating the cats.”

Lawyers for the group of Haitians previously granted “temporary protected status” contend in arguments to the Supreme Court that such racial animus prompted the administration’s 2025 order to end their TPS designation.

That challenge is based on constitutional equal protection, but the Haitian TPS holders ha

By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Uriel Blanco, Mauricio Torres, CNN

(CNN) — Mexican federal forces have arrested one of the alleged commanders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Audias Flores Silva, who was considered a possible successor to Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the CJNG leader who died after a military operation to capture him in February.

At the time of his capture, Flores Silva – aka El Jardinero (“The Gardener”) – had an arrest warrant against him in Mexico and was wanted by the United States for drug-related crimes.

CNN has contacted the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico to find out the details of the current charge against him and whether he has legal representation.

The arrest – which took place alongside the detention of another suspected CJNG operative, known as El Güero Conta – comes at a sensitive moment for Mexico. The country is facing questions about security ahead of the World Cup and US pressure to take tougher action against cartels.

A ‘surgical’ operation to stop El Jardinero

Mexican security forces surrounded a cabin in the Nayarit community of El Mirador – about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta, in the neighboring state of Jalisco – where Flores Silva was being protected by a security detail made up of around 30 trucks and more than 60 armed men, according to the Mexican Navy.

Flores Silva’s bodyguards dispersed as a diversionary tactic, but he was found while trying to hide in a drainage pipe.

“The operation was carried out surgically, without the need to fire a single shot, with no deaths, injuries, or collateral damage,” the Navy said.

Videos shared on social media by Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch show aerial shots of the arrest, with helicopters flying over the area during the deployment.

The Mexican Navy indicated that the operation was the result of 19 months of surveillance and involved more than 500 personnel, six helicopters, and intelligence and reconnaissance aircraft.

Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, Mexico’s Secretary of the Navy, said the operation began in October 2024, “when the Mexican Navy activated intelligence efforts focused on a priority target (Flores Silva) linked to one of the country’s main criminal organizations (the CJNG). From that moment on, a discreet and sustained systematic follow-up was carried out, based on field intelligence, intelligence gathering, and international cooperation.”

After more than a year and a half of analysis and preparation work, Mexican authorities tracked down El Jardinero’s full location, his movement patterns, and with whom he interacted.

“Thanks to this analysis, the precise identification of the target was achieved on April 25, 2026,” Morales Ángeles stated. Two days later, federal forces arrested Flores Silva, who was turned over to the Attorney General’s Office that same day.

Who is Flores Silva?

Audias Flores Silva, also known as Gabriel Raigosa Plascencia, had numerous aliases and in addition to El Jardinero was also known as “Commander,” “Bravo 2,” “Audi” and “Boss Killer.”

Born on November 19, 1980, in Michoacán, Mexico, he was once a close collaborator of El Mencho, who for years was the top leader of the CJNG and one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world, according to the US State Department.

Security analysts saw El Jardinero as a possible successor to the CJNG leadership after El Mencho died following the military operation in Tapalpa, a town located about 120 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara, Jalisco. His death unleashed a wave of violence in 20 states of the country.

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SAN LUIS, Mexico (KYMA) – La indignación crece entre familiares de víctimas de accidentes viales, quienes este pasado 25 de abril de 2026 salieron a manifestarse para exigir avances en las investigaciones de casos de atropellamiento donde los responsables huyeron sin enfrentar consecuencias.

La protesta tuvo lugar en el parque Club de Leones, ubicado en la intersección de la avenida Guerrero y la calle 34, desde donde los inconformes alzaron la voz ante lo que consideran una preocupante falta de respuesta por parte de las autoridades encargadas de impartir justicia.

Posteriormente, el grupo se trasladó frente a la Comandancia de Policía, buscando visibilizar su exigencia.

De acuerdo con los manifestantes, en menos de un mes se han registrado al menos cuatro casos de atropellamientos con fuga, todos sin resolver hasta el momento.

Esta situación, señalan, refleja un patrón de impunidad que deja a las víctimas y sus familias en el abandono.

Los familiares denunciaron que, pese a insistir en obtener detalles sobre los casos, las autoridades les han indicado que no intervengan, argumentando que podrían entorpecer las investigaciones.

Sin embargo, aseguran que esta postura solo incrementa la incertidumbre y el dolor.

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