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Here's your morning brief for Wednesday, September 24th.

I'm Caitlin McCabe for The Wall Street Journal.

Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel made his on-air return last night,

following a four-day suspension by ABC and Disney over comments he made

about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

In a roughly 17-minute monologue,

Kimmel took jabs at members of the Trump administration, including the president himself

and Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Before Kimmel's return,

Trump threatened ABC over its decision to allow the show to come back, referencing a multi-million

dollar settlement that the network reached last year to settle a lawsuit to come back, referencing a multi-million dollar settlement that the network

reached last year to settle a lawsuit filed by the president. A spokeswoman for ABC declined to comment.

The Democrats are chipping away at the GOP's narrow House majority with a special election win in the

battleground state of Arizona. Democrat Adelita Griehalva is set to take Arizona's

seventh congressional district, leaving the Republicans with a slim majority of just five seats in the house.

Her victory comes hot on the heels of Democrat James Walkenshaw's win in Virginia and ahead of two more

special elections in Texas and Tennessee toward the end of the

year. And shares in Alibaba surge today after the company said it would invest more than $53 billion

in artificial intelligence above its original target. The Chinese Tech Titans rally helped it more

than double gain so far this year, with its stock

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