Florence in California: Carnival launches new Italian-style cruise ship Carnival Cruise Line is bringing a touch of Italy to Southern California. The line launched Carnival Firenze, inspired by its namesake city, this week. The vessel sailed its maiden voyage from its ... 04/26/2024 - 4:24 am | View Link
Monster growth! The cruise boom at Carnival continues with debut of another new ship The world's second-largest cruise line has added five new ships in the last 18 months, including the just-unveiled Carnival Firenze. 04/25/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
Big Balloon Build invites community to larger-than-life carnival-themed balloon scenes Volunteers from around the world gathered in Elkhart for the Big Balloon Build to craft a carnival to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities. 04/24/2024 - 10:17 pm | View Link
Carnival Ship Rescues 27 People Adrift at Sea in the Caribbean At approximately 2:30 p.m. on the first full day of her current 5-night cruise, the ever-vigilant bridge crew of Carnival Paradise spotted a small boat signaling for assistance. The ship immediately ... 04/21/2024 - 1:10 pm | View Link
Carnival may follow Royal Caribbean in making huge ship move For decades, Carnival and Royal Caribbean have pushed the size of cruise ships ever bigger. That has, in some ways, made the cruise ship, not the ports it sails to, ... 04/21/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) is dropping his bid for Michigan’s open Senate seat, CNN reports.
Said Meijer: “The hard reality is the fundamentals of the race have changed since we launched this campaign. After prayerful consideration, today I withdrew my name from the primary ballot. Without a strong pathway to victory, continuing this campaign only increases the likelihood of a divisive primary that would distract from the essential goal – conservative victories in November.”
“The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July,” the New York Times reports.
“The three-page letter, signed by Todd R. Steggerda, counsel to the Republican National Committee, objected to the placement of an area where protesters would be allowed to demonstrate.
In the early morning, one can hear the birds perched on trees around the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Farther off, there are sounds of protest and counterprotest. But inside the camp itself—technically the second camp after the New York Police Department cleared out the first and caused even more national attention to focus on this campus lawn—the resistance is often quieter if steady: a community formed to call for ceasefire, divestment, and the end to war.
This is a village built overnight.
A Ukrainian soldier played the national anthem of the United States for the Russian soldiers somewhere on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, the Russians did not care to be serenaded in this fashion and responded with their AK-47s and fired an RPG in the general direction of the offensive tune.
Republicans sure have changed, huh? As if Talking Point USA's Charlie Kirk wasn't bad enough, he somehow decided to bring Curtis Yarvin, an anti-democratic blogger, on as his guest. What could go wrong? Well, I'm glad you asked that. OK, you didn't really ask that. I did. Yarvin wants to give Trump unchecked power in November.
Trump's lawyer is currently arguing in the Supreme Court for presidential immunity, which is not even in the Constitution.