No Kings was a huge success.  Just look at Trump's response.  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊  —  Before the No Kings rallies that took place across the country on Saturday, Republicans were desperate …

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party  —  SINCE DONALD TRUMP DESCENDED that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last one hundred years.  —  For ten years, the GOP has waged …

Lawmakers bemoan Trump's latest power grab: Troop pay … The Senate is scheduled to consider legislation this week that would allow members of the military and other federal workers to receive pay while the government remains shuttered.  It's far from certain it will attract the necessary 60 votes …

Supreme Court to hear challenge to law barring drug users from guns  —  The law is the one that Hunter Biden, the son of former president Joe Biden, was convicted of violating in 2024.  Joe Biden later pardoned his son.  —  Just now  —  The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether …

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies … This text exchange is part of the cache of messages sent in a Telegram group chat by Young Republicans.  In these messages, exposed by POLITICO reporters Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo …

Prosecutors may move to oust James Comey's defense lawyer … The prosecutors asked the judge to quickly approve a proposal for a “filter team” of lawyers to sift through evidence in Comey's criminal case that could clarify Fitzgerald's role in the 8-year-old disclosures — without breaching Comey's attorney-client privilege.

‘Definitely on purpose’: Hit-and-run driver slams into seated No Kings protester  —  A hit-and-run driver remains at large after injuring a woman taking part in a No Kings protest in Ohio.  —  Witnesses say the driver of a white pickup truck deliberately drove into a group of demonstrators shortly …

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats  —  Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States.  U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.  —  Just now

In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin's demands  —  Following the trip to Washington, Zelensky has set up a series of calls and meetings with his main European backers.  —  BRUSSELS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners …

China is well positioned for a trade showdown with Trump  —  Rare earths are not the only Chinese product that America would struggle to replace  —  Like boxers before a championship bout, America and China are trash talking each other.  —  Last week, Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary …

Trump fan arrested for pointing gun at No Kings protesters: ‘Very ignorant move’  —  A fan of President Donald Trump was arrested and charged with waving a gun at demonstrators at a No Kings protest in South Carolina.  —  Mary Moriarty is accused of driving past a demonstration in Myrtle Beach …

'We're going to have a vote' on member stock trading, key GOP hard-liner says  —  A raft of internal GOP fights are awaiting Speaker Mike Johnson when he brings the House back from its shutdown recess — including a major brawl over legislation banning congressional stock trading.

Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows  —  Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanuts.  But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.  —  Food allergies in children dropped sharply in the years …

Star Fox host Laura Ingraham is now in business with the president's son  —  Fox News star Laura Ingraham spent years railing against the purported corruption caused by the business interests of President Joe Biden's son.  But now she's going into business with Donald Trump Jr. …

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying  —  Better broke than woke, right?  —  Toward the end of the Biden administration, conservatives, fed up with the supposed imposition of liberal ideas by “woke capital,” tried to create what The Economist described as a “parallel economy” …

184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois  —  The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” …

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments  —  Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.  —  More Americans are struggling to make their monthly car-loan payments, a sign that lower-income consumers are under growing financial pressure.

ICE Barbie's Top Goon Accused of Illegally Revealing Child's Rap Sheet  —  ‘SECRETARY OF LIES’  —  DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin posted the information about a 13-year-old detained by ICE.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  The Department of Homeland Security and its top communications officer …

Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case  —  Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ.  —  Reuveni previously won commendations …

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount … The detention centers — which currently hold more than 60,000 people — are overcrowded and the use of hastily constructed facilities like tent cities makes it easier, public health officials said …

Response to President Trump's Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”  —  Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”

The Tactical Frivolity of the Chicago No Kings Protest  —  On the morning of Oct. 18, after giving a reading at the University of Chicago, I decided to take a cab up to Grant Park to attend Chicago's No Kings march.  The two-hour demonstration took place beneath the city's downtown skyscrapers on a slightly overcast day.