Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver  —  Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester.  Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.  —  Late on Oct. 5, a Portland ambulance crew informed dispatchers …

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident'  —  Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.  —  The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump's Power to Fire Officials  —  As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president's power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.  —  The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December …

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Against all odds, Democrats seemed to have gained the upper hand in the conflict over the government shutdown …

Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset  —  During his address to the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Trump went off script and urged President Issac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is standing trial on three corruption charges.

Democrats are in a GOP shutdown vise … On Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans said they would no longer allow Democrats to keep calling up their own stopgap spending bill funding the government through the end of October, forcing votes only on the GOP-led alternative.

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs  — US companies, consumers bear brunt of US tariffs  — Some foreign sellers are raising prices  — Further price hikes likely in coming months  —  U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs …

How Trump Is Making China Great  —  Six months ago Donald Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs — huge tariffs imposed on just about every nation.  As everyone noted, this announcement suddenly brought average tariffs back to 1934 levels.  Less widely noted was the fact that the long decline …

Trump's Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement  —  Some unbelievable scenes out of Israel this morning, where the last hostages held by Hamas have just been returned as part of the preliminary ceasefire deal in Gaza.  Negotiating hurdles remain, but leaders are projecting optimism: “The war is over …

Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office  —  Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over …

Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government  —  Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration's latest layoffs.  —  Just now  —  A historic wave of retirements and other departures …

Obama swipes at Democrats for ‘holier than thou’ anti-Trump messaging  —  Former President Barack Obama ripped fellow Democrats over their messaging, warning that some in his party are falling short of bridging the gap between ideology and voters.  —  “You can't constantly lecture people …

Law Schools Are Using Security Concerns to Silence Speech  —  Since I resigned from my job as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in February, I have accepted several invitations from law schools to speak to students about public service.

Newsom signs AI chatbots bill meant to protect children  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a batch of bills aimed at protecting kids using chatbots and AI tools online. … - The new law will require chatbots to notify minors every three hours to “take a break” and that the chatbot is not human.

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer  —  The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar.  Both Republicans struggled.  —  It's been nearly a month since the public …

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks  —  Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk's private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having issues selling the electric pickup truck.  —  Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla's first real commercial flop.

The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump  —  Trump is mad he didn't win.  But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.  —  Pocket  —  Donald Trump's narcissism is truly a force of nature …

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump … When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry.

John Oliver Warns Viewers to Keep a Close Eye on CBS News in Wake of “Alarming” Bari Weiss Hire  —  The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host described the newly appointed editor-in-chief as someone “who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading.”

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism  —  Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.  —  MIKE JOHNSON, THE REPUBLICAN SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, worries that the United States could become a dictatorship.

Norway Suspects Espionage in Nobel Peace Prize Winner Breach  —  Norwegian officials see cyber espionage as the most likely cause of unusual betting surge on this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient ahead of the announcement.  —  The Nobel Institute on Friday began investigating reports …

Shutdown polls show Democrats' economic messaging still falling flat … That dichotomy underscores an electoral hurdle for the party locked out of power: Even as Democrats hold the line over expiring health care subsidies that could send millions of Americans' insurance prices soaring …

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation  —  Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed …

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: ‘We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today’  —  A federal judge's temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas.  Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment  —  “After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino's psychological thriller about the fallout from the #MeToo movement, has been in theaters for only a few days, but it already feels dated.  It's a memento of the micro-era …

October 12, 2025  —  On October 9, President Donald J. Trump's office issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13, “Columbus Day.”  The proclamation says that the day is one on which “our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus—the original American hero …