Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a Wednesday opinion piece for Variety that comedian Stephen Colbert’s show may have been canceled by CBS "to curry favor" with President Trump.

CBS announced the cancelation on Friday, days after Colbert, a frequent critic of Trump, had criticized a merger between Skydance and Paramount, CBS's parent company. The approval of federal regulatory agencies is necessary for the merger to go through.

While CBS said the cancelation was strictly a financial issue and there have been reports that Colbert's show was losing money, a number of observers and

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