(KTLA) – The family of a California man who died aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the company of over-serving him alcohol and using excessive force that they say led to his death. Michael Virgil, 35, died Dec. 13, 2024,
President Trump is attempting to shift the narrative on affordability with a speech in Pennsylvania, while Supreme Court hears a campaign finance case, Jasmine Crockett targets Trump with Senate bid, and voters head to polls in Miami and Albuquerque.
Wegmans says the affected products were sold at its locations across the Northeast and North Carolina.
Waymo is hitting the brakes on its robotaxi software and issuing a voluntary recall after school bus safety concerns came to light earlier this year.
Swing-state Republican senators who are up for reelection are scrambling for political cover as the Senate prepares to vote on a Democratic bill to extend health insurance tax credits, even as the GOP struggles to coalesce behind a plan. Senate Majority Leader John Thune
President Trump is set to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to deliver a speech on the economy, a tacit acknowledgment that he and the White House must do more to address voters' concerns about heightened costs for Americans. Trump has so far in his second term made sparingly
In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America's allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.
This is a lightly edited transcript of the December 8 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of The New Republic show Right Now. I’m joined by Andrea
In 2017, the urban planner Bruce Appleyard asked 9- and 10-year-olds from two Bay Area suburbs to draw maps of their neighborhoods. The first group lived in a community with heavy traffic and little bike infrastructure. They created maps lacking in detail and dominated by red
Justice Brett Kavanaugh used an interesting choice of phrase when describing the constitutional issues in Trump v. Slaughter , the vividly named case on the president’s ability to remove certain federal officials that Congress stipulated could only be fired for cause. “How do
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . With President Trump’s deep unpopularity and the traditional backlash against the president’s party, Republicans seem destined to lose the House. So last summer,
President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon have spent the first year of the second Trump administration working hard to fulfill his campaign promise to close the Education Department. From mass layoffs to moving programs to other federal agencies, McMahon is doing
Trinidad and Tobago's military comprises fewer than 6,000 soldiers, placing it among the smallest on the South American continental shelf. Still, located just 7 miles from Venezuela at their closest point, the tiny dual-island nation is playing a key role in President Trump's
Two key AI provisions were left out of the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) after failing to overcome Republican divisions, while a pair of measures restricting investments and contracts with China made it into the must-pass defense bill. The
It’s hard to remember that there was a Republican presidential nominating contest last year, but it really did happen. The reason it is so easy to forget is that the front-runner and inevitable winner didn’t really participate. Donald Trump shrewdly mostly ignored the likes of
Rural America knows the truth long before the rest of the country feels it. Nothing collapses all at once. It just stops working in small places first while everyone else calls it local hardship. That’s why wood banks—like a food bank but for fuel—are important. They’re the
As Republicans and Democrats look ahead to next year’s midterms, both parties are keeping an eye on a series of state and local special elections to close the year out. Democrats are seeking to score more victories after a successful off year during President Trump’s second
Pete Hegseth’s defense of the killing of two men clinging to an incapacitated boat is falling apart on multiple fronts. Lawmakers who saw video of this horror are letting it be known that the two men were waving before their execution, suggesting they were either surrendering
Charlamagne tha God criticized New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) messaging around President Trump, with whom Mamdani recently had a cordial meeting. “If you're, you know, Joe Biden, and you say, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but then when Donald Trump wins
Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said her husband is “not going to run for president” in 2028. “Cheryl, is your husband going to run for president in 2028, and if so, are you ready for that?” NewsNation’s Elizabeth
Voting on any alternative to Democrats' Obamacare extension is likely to highlight the divisions in the GOP.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Monday posted a Senate campaign launch video that features audio of President Trump insulting her. “Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough,” Crockett wrote in a post on the social platform X on Monday. Crockett’s post also
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Breaking down the tech provisions in (and out) of the NDAA Two key AI provisions were left out of the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) after failing to overcome Republican divisions, while a pair of
An Indiana Senate panel has advanced a new House map that aims to give Republicans two additional pickup opportunities next year, though questions remain on whether it has enough support to be passed by the full chamber. The Indiana Senate Committee on Elections passed an
A federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to halt approvals for all new wind energy projects — dealing a blow to the president’s efforts to hamper renewable energy. Judge Patti Saris, appointed by former President Clinton, ruled that moves from the
ABC has extended comedian Jimmy Kimmel's contract an additional year. Kimmel signed a one-year extension with the Disney-owned broadcast network this week, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill on Monday, clearing the way for his "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security The Big Story Trump backtracks on releasing boat strike video President Trump on Monday shifted his position on publicly releasing video of a September boat strike that Democrats have
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care PRESENTED BY COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTHCARE The Big Story It’s ACA subsidies week Lawmakers this week are scrambling to pass some kind of legislation that deals with
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) teased his annual Christmas party in a social media post Monday. “Everybody's asking about the Christmas party and asking, ‘This legit?’ You can Google it. It's 15 minutes long this year. Last year, it went to 16, but we thought it dragged on too
{beacon} Energy & Environment The Big Story Defense bill allows for longer use of PFAS-based foam The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) gives the Pentagon more time to use firefighting foam that contains “forever chemicals.” © Photo Credit
Vice President JD Vance has exaggerated the increase in home prices during President Joe Biden’s time in office and has misleadingly pointed to illegal immigration as a primary cause of a rise in prices. The post Vance’s Misleading Claims on Housing Prices and Illegal
Young voters are more likely to identify as liberal and are increasingly critical of President Trump's job performance, new polling conducted by the Yale Youth Poll found. Forty-six percent of voters younger than age 30 self-identified as liberal, the Monday poll shows. This
Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela Smith announced Monday she is stepping down at the end of this year, a little more than two years after starting the D.C. role. “I am deeply humbled, grateful, and deeply appreciative of my time with the District of Columbia,”
The most elusive mystery of the days surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack has for years been the two pipe bombs planted outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee offices on the eve of the riot. Clues emerged, like the suspect’s height and the distinctive
President Trump said Monday that he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China in a key win for the chipmaker. “I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China, and other
For some strange reason, two members of President Trump’s Cabinet, both men, spoke about the benefits of breastfeeding at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, Monday afternoon. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) took a swing at House Republican leadership in a new opinion piece for The New York Times. “I came to Congress five years ago believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina and for a country I love deeply. I was the first
European powers rallied behind Ukraine on Monday after President Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a day prior, accusing him of not reading the U.S.-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war. "We stand with Ukraine," British Prime Minister Keir
President Trump cast blame on members of his own party Monday for halting some of his U.S. attorney nominations — most recently for his former personal lawyer, Alina Habba. Habba announced earlier Monday she would step down as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor after a panel
Five days after he promised the American public that they would be able to see drone footage from the September 2 airstrike in the Caribbean, Donald Trump has decided to walk it all back. The president scolded a reporter during a White House roundtable Monday, berating her for
President Donald Trump revealed Monday just how clueless he is about his own tariff policies, and appeared to improvise new rice tariffs on the fly after speaking with one rice farmer. During a roundtable to unveil a $12 billion bailout package for American farmers, Meryl
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said inflation may persist through the coming year, but that the stock market could remain at near-historic highs as well. Dimon gave his assessment of the “broader macro story” for the 2026 economy in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning
Congress is trying to amp up the pressure on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over operations conducted against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean by threatening to withhold a portion of his travel budget unless he turns over videos of the strikes to the Armed Services
As President Donald Trump eyes a federal top-down AI “rulebook," the GOP governor maintained it should be up to Congress, not the president, to establish such a sweeping policy.
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a rising star within the Democratic Party, on Monday launched a bid for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) hotly contested seat. Crockett entered the primary field Monday evening, releasing a campaign video on the social media platform X and linking to
His campaign would complicate Rep. Elise Stefanik’s path. Trump praises both.
President Trump on Monday demurred when asked about an ongoing war between Netflix and Paramount for moviemaker Warner Bros. and said he has not spoken with his son-in-law Jared Kushner about his reported role in helping Paramount win the company's board over. "I don't know
President Trump on Monday lashed out at a reporter who asked about impending GOP House resignations. “There’s at least 20 House Republicans who have either said they’re going to retire or not run again—” “And Democrats, and Democrats also. And Democrats also,” Trump chimed in.
