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The removal of the roughly 200 older Sesame Street episodes by HBO Max appears to be part of new owner Warner Bros. Discovery’s goal to reduce streaming-content payment obligations

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday responded to the Left’s latest attempts to vaccinate young children, blasting “Sesame Street” for patronizing parents and making the iconic muppet Elmo “aggressively advocate” for vaccinating young children with the Chinese coronavirus.

The famed Sesame Street character Elmo on Tuesday announced on social media that he, too, got vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus, telling children “Elmo’s doctor said the vaccine would help keep Elmo healthy.”

“Ji-Young” is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the “Sesame Street” canon.

Fictional Sesame Street muppets have taken to social media to encourage children to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Famed Muppet actor Frank Oz, the voice of Fozzie Bear and Star Wars character Yoda, says that Disney no longer wants him involved with the Muppets and he blasted the company’s soulless take on the characters.

Sesame Street and First Lady Jill Biden have teamed up to bring identity politics into military families by helping parents discuss race and racism with their children and to develop kids’ sense of “racial literacy.”

Sesame Street aired its “Family Day” episode — which featured two gay dads — on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and YouTube this Thursday.

First Netflix said it is developing kids programming around racial justice. Now the people behind Sesame Street are following suit, with race-based content aimed at children of all ages, including infants.

“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.”

Sesame Street is set to air a 30-minute special this month aimed at teaching children and families how to be “anti-racist.” The special will define “racism” for young audiences, and urge children to call out others who they suspect of being racist.

The iconic children’s program Sesame Street has produced a picture book where young people are propagandized on the subject of protecting themselves against the Chinese coronavirus. 

Sesame Street teamed up with CNN, offering an explainer on the Black Lives Matter protests around the county, with Elmo’s dad explaining that “racism is a huge problem in this country.”

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — No other age group was under-counted more during the last once-a-decade census than children under age 5, researchers say. Sesame Street is hoping to use Count von Count to change that.

The PBS children’s show Sesame Street announced that Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor Billy Porter will be featured wearing his Oscars dress when the program returns to TV for its 51st season, set to premiere on HBO Max later this year.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut, according to the Sesame Workshop.

The enduring children’s show “Sesame Street” is tackling the opioid crisis with a character whose mother is struggling with an addiction.

Al Jean, screenwriter and showrunner for legendary cartoon series “The Simpsons,” said Lisa Simpson may turn out “polyamorous.”

NEW YORK (AP) — The producers of “Sesame Street” want you to know that Bert and Ernie are not, in fact, gay.

Mark Saltzman, a longtime writer for the hit children’s television show Sesame Street, reveals characters Bert and Ernie are indeed gay, ending years of speculation about the status of the pair’s relationship. 

The makers of “Sesame Street” are suing the promoter of a new Melissa McCarthy movie, saying it’s abusing the famed puppets’ sterling reputation to advertise the R-rated film.

The nonprofit behind the children’s television show Sesame Street received $100 million in grant money to help Syrian refugee children.

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal penned a guest column in the New York Times Wednesday requesting that the federal government continue to fund public television channel PBS.

President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal, “America First,” ends federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which, in turn, supports National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Iconic Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie may have a closer relationship than most people realized after all, as the two star in a new ad for an STD detection service that sees the longtime best buds analyzing the result of what appears to be their own test.

Sesame Street unveiled a fresh face Thursday: a hijab-wearing Afghani Muppet named Zari who will teach kids about “girl empowerment, social and emotional wellbeing.”

Classic children’s television show Sesame Street has landed a new home at HBO.

A study being called the “most authoritative” review of the impact of the PBS series Sesame Street on children is scheduled to be released this month. In part, the report finds that the decades-old show is just as effective as preschool for educating little ones.

Michelle Obama seems funnier than the comedian hosting “Funny or Die.”