NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Dec. 19)

NTD Evening News presents a special live broadcast from Day 2 of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona.

President Donald Trump today unveiled new deals with nine major drug companies, bringing the total to 14 of the 17 firms his administration targeted, as he pushes to slash U.S. prescription drug prices. The president also vowed to summon insurance executives next, aiming to force down premiums, while defending a recent uptick in unemployment as the result of aggressive cuts to government jobs.

Authorities say the suspect responsible for the deadly Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor is dead. Law enforcement says the Portuguese national, Claudio Neves Valente, died by suicide inside a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. According to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the suspect entered the United States through the diversity lottery visa program in 2017 and was later granted a green card. Trump has ordered immigration services to pause the program.

European leaders today agreed to loan Ukraine more than $100 billion from the European budget. This comes as new rounds of talks between Kyiv and Washington begin in the United States today.