Stephen Colbert's late-night show was reportedly forbidden from interviewing Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico due to a potential Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threat, while a GoFundMe campaign seeks Bitcoin donations to aid in the search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie. These developments come amidst a backdrop of economic shifts and the commemoration of civil rights history, as revealed by various news reports.
On a recent episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the host stated that CBS had prohibited him from interviewing Talarico. Colbert explained, "We were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast." He added that he was also instructed not to mention the cancellation. This decision was reportedly prompted by concerns over the FCC's equal-time rule, which applies to talk shows during election periods.
Meanwhile, a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise funds to purchase Bitcoin, with the aim of gathering information about the whereabouts of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show anchor Savannah Guthrie. The 84-year-old went missing earlier in the month. The campaign, organized by Shawn Breeden of Tucson, where Guthrie disappeared, has a goal of $65,000 and has raised approximately $1,500 so far. Breeden wrote on the GoFundMe page, "Every bit of support helps bring this tragic event closer to an end."
In other news, a recent analysis by Goldman Sachs revealed that a crackdown on immigration in a second term of President Donald Trump has led to an 80% plunge in net immigration to the U.S. The report, released on Feb. 16, warned that this contraction in the foreign-born workforce is fundamentally altering the nation's labor supply and lowering the threshold for job growth needed to maintain economic stability. The investment bank projected a significant drop in new worker arrivals, from an average of 1 million per year in the 2010s to 500,000 in 2025.
Additionally, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was remembered as he crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Jackson, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, at age 84, was born in Greenville, South Carolina, a town deeply entrenched in racial segregation. His experiences in the segregated South shaped his civil rights activism and his historic runs for the U.S. presidency.
Finally, economists are revisiting the "Solow's productivity paradox," which emerged in 1987. Nobel laureate Robert Solow observed that despite the advent of new technologies like transistors and microprocessors, productivity growth slowed. This unexpected outcome, where new technologies did not immediately boost workplace productivity, remains a subject of economic discussion.
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