The Commerce Department on Friday reported core prices increased by 2.8 percent compared to September of last year, excluding food and energy costs. The monthly rise in costs was measured at 0.2 percent. In total, consumer spending increased by $65.1 billion. Most of the growth
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel's recommendation to no longer administer doses of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Cassidy's plea came
President Trump will give remarks Friday morning while attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Trump, not long after his administration took the reins of the center, announced in August that the draw would take place at the performing
A rescue helicopter was returned to Newport, Ore., on Thursday after local leaders filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for repositioning the aircraft in turn prolonging emergency response times. “Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard,
Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced on Friday that it "implemented a fix" to restore services following an earlier outage, weeks after a previous crash was fixed. Friday's outage began at 3:47 a.m. EST, according to a company statement. This outage lasted about 25
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro rebuffed Sen. Mark Warner's (D-Va.) comments about the arrest of a man connected to pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic party offices in Washington in 2021, calling the lawmaker's analysis "dumb."
The man who planted pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the day before January 6 seems to have been motivated by MAGA election denialism. Virginia resident Brian Cole, 30, was taken into custody on Thursday after being charged with
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reason to be optimistic about congressional redistricting in his state after a Supreme Court ruling. On Thursday, the court ruled 6-3 that Texas can use a new legislative map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans , with conservative
A candidate for the Heisman Trophy is pleading with President Trump to intervene and help his team get into the College Football Playoff. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, who led the Commodores to a 10-2 record and an unbeaten season outside of the Southeastern Conference
Related video: Calls to end redistricting (WXIN Indianapolis) Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was caught on a hot mic expressing concerns about a new map passed in California that would give Democrats up to five pickup opportunities in the House next year. "Ken has nowhere else to
The National Association of Realtors is urging policymakers to take action to address the housing affordability crisis and restore access to homeownership for first-time buyers, as the average age of a first-time homebuyer in America has risen to 40 years old and the share of
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a memo Thursday to all federal prosecutors outlining methods for bringing charges against various entities they accuse of being aligned with antifa. Bondi’s memo could be the starting point for charges against a number of left-leaning advocacy
The vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday voted in favor of changing long-held guidance for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of altering the
ATLANTA - In his campaign to "Make America Healthy Again," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn attention to what he says is the overmedication of children. During a news conference in September, the secretary said the National Institute of
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military will continue targeting alleged "narco" ships in the Caribbean despite some lawmakers in Washington accusing him of committing a war crime over reports he approved a "double tap" attack on survivors during a Sept. 2 strike.
New data from the Federal Communications Commission allows you to put providers head-to-head and see who has the best data coverage where you live.
President Trump said Friday he had granted approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States, a move that would expand the availability of similar smaller vehicles that are popular in Asia. "I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Manufacturers have long
Illegal orders, especially those that will result in the unlawful killing of noncombatants, can and must be refused.
Pete Hegseth is having one of the worst weeks a Cabinet secretary has had in recent American history. It’s very richly deserved. He’s a bombastic idiot . He’s a liar . And he’s a weasel: Under fire for a second military strike on an alleged drug boat , which killed two
A federal appeals court on Thursday halted an effort by the Trump administration to block grants to hire more school mental health workers. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration’s appeal of a district court decision to restore grants given by the
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino offered up a baffling excuse Thursday for fueling conspiracy theories about the pipe bombs planted at the Democratic and Republican national headquarters five years ago. Following the arrest earlier Thursday of a suspect in the attempted bombing,
One of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s main arguments for bombing two helpless men in the Caribbean Sea was that they possessed radios that they could have used to call back their alleged cartels. But lawmakers who saw the video said that wasn’t the case. “There was no radio.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday said "it's a little rich" that the Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed they are making the country safer despite President Trump's pardon of rioters tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Speaking on MS NOW's "Katy Tur Reports,"
Conservative pundit Meghan McCain blasted commentator Tucker Carlson after a guest on his podcast and online show this week made a disparaging remark about her weight. Carlson hosted Milo Yiannopoulos, another right-wing pundit, for an episode released Wednesday during which
Hardly anything pisses the president off more than hearing criticism of his mental and physical health. Donald Trump—the oldest person to ever be elected president—was reportedly irate after he was caught dozing off during a Cabinet meeting earlier this week, fuming over the
The Deportation Data Project — a set of data on immigration enforcement maintained by concerned academics and lawyers — has just confirmed what many in Washington have been warning for months: ICE apprehensions aren’t simply rising — they’re exploding. The data show that
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is planning to expand its travel ban to more than 30 countries in the wake of a deadly shooting against National Guardsmen. “I won't be specific on the number, but it's over 30, and the President is
Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of conducting anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and electromagnetic warfare both in
The White House paints European allies as weak in a new national security strategy released early Friday that outlines plans to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere. The administration targets European nations over migration and free speech policies,
FBI Director Kash Patel is in trouble again for allegedly misusing the bureau’s resources. MS NOW reports that Patel has, at least twice, ordered the FBI security detail protecting his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins to also escort one of her allegedly intoxicated friends home after
As the public deliberates on whether he committed a war crime, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on X bragging about dropping more bombs on alleged “drug boats.” “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the
He’s got 99 problems, and one keeps getting worse: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is taking fire from several high-profile Republican women, and the list keeps growing. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), is miffed that Johnson won’t schedule a vote to ban congressional stock
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Thursday slammed the prospect of the United States going to war with Venezuela, as tensions escalate between the two countries. "It’s really hard to say," Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, told host Blake Burman on
The European Union (EU) hit billionaire Elon Musk’s social platform X with a $140 million fine Friday for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA), the first time a company has been sanctioned under the bloc's tech law. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, accused
Netflix announced Friday that it would acquire Warner Bros. in a $72 billion deal. The agreement is valued at $27.75 per Warner share, according to the company's press release. Netflix's booming streaming business, which reaches 301.6 million paid subscribers globally, will
It was a bold, if implausible, demand for a crash program to rid America of fossil fuels.
LIVE Video: Trump attends 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at Kennedy Center Soccer's biggest event is the Kennedy Center's top billing on Friday, with President Trump attending the final draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Trump is expected to receive the world soccer organization's
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Thursday brushed off questions about his past claims of a cover up in the case of who planted pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee offices a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. When Fox News's Sean
It seems unlikely that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel could capture the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. The guy who as Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff had a gag nameplate on his desk that read “Undersecretary for Go [F] Yourself”; the guy who
Americans are angry about the cost of living, and Democrats are busily exploiting that anger to win elections — even if it means lying to the public yet again. Not content with undermining President Trump’s first four years in office with their Russiagate fable, or pretending
The items can “become lodged in the digestive system,” according to the recall.
Mamdani’s quick and superficial fixes are very popular among young people. Someone has to offer them a better alternative.
Democrats can use President Trump's own words against him in order to win back Congress, from his mockery of the word "affordability" to his statement that "tariffs don't cause inflation; they cause success".
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This is a lightly edited transcript of the December 3 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: This is The New Republic s how Right Now. I’m the host, Perry Bacon. I’m honored to be
John Konrad, a former ship captain and current social media personality, became one of the new members of the Pentagon’s reshaped press corps earlier this year. On Wednesday, he updated his Twitter followers about his latest reporting. “[Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth
They came to Beijing because they had dreams of making a better living , because the fields back home no longer yielded enough to live on, because a cousin had found them a bunk and a lead on a factory job, because they wanted to send money to parents still hoeing the same
Frustration is mounting among moderate House Republicans as various competing health care plans appear to be going nowhere, with less than 10 working days left on the calendar before millions of Americans see their health insurance premiums spike. A small but animated group
Mainstream Democrats use dozens of old catchphrases that suggest they’re out of step. “ When they go low, we go high ,” for example, sounded fine when Michelle Obama first said it in 2016, but it passed its sell-by date almost the next day. For quite some time, the Democratic
House Republicans say Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is safe in his position for now, even as frustrated members across the spectrum lob verbal missiles and threaten his control of the House floor. Republicans have increasingly criticized Johnson’s strategic calls, voiced