The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump posted a short video which included a horrifically racist …

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September  —  Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record  —  An Irishman living in the United States for more than 20 years has been held by US Immigration …

New York GOP's midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump … That race and several other New York swing districts will be crucial in determining control of the House and the fate of Trump's final two years in the White House.  —  New York Republicans' misery is fueling Democratic elation.

1 big thing: Trump's crypto revolt … - Why it matters: Crypto joins a growing number of segments of the Trump coalition — from Epstein-focused populists to farmers to Latino men — now questioning whether his return to power has delivered as promised.  —  🔎 Zoom in: The hyper-online …

UK's Starmer fights for survival as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis  —  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just 19 months in office.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts  —  Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products.  While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries.

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump's Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho  —  Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity.  Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.  —  People in Wilder, Idaho, didn't give much thought …

The Children of Dilley  —  ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas.  Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.  —  Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez …

Green Day avoids making political statement during Super Bowl 2026 opening performance  —  A rocking start to the Super Bowl.  —  Green Day performed during the opening ceremony of Super Bowl LX that celebrated generations of Super Bowl MVPs including Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, and Peyton and Eli Manning.

Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group … - Former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, ex-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will serve as president.  — The group describes itself as a “hub for center-left policy and advocacy.”

Immigration Raids in South Texas Are Starting to Hit the Economy  —  Trade groups are raising alarms about aggressive immigration enforcement hurting businesses in the region  —  WESLACO, Texas—At Monte Cielo, a new housing development in this growing region of South Texas, half-built homes are sitting empty.

How Oura Ring won over Washington … It's paying off.  The Defense Department, Oura's largest customer, now provides rings to certain soldiers and civil servants as an employee benefit. … Besides buying the rings, lawmakers have gone to bat to protect Oura from Chinese and Indian competitors.

Jasmine Crockett Is Not Running a Traditional Campaign.  It's Making Allies Anxious.  —  The Democratic Senate candidate hasn't named a campaign manager or run broadcast TV ads.  — Copy  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett's post-Senate campaign announcement fundraising surge never materialized.

U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home  — 5 min Click here to listen to this article  — Olympic skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Hunter Hess are among the athletes who've talked about the political situation in the U.S. while at the Milan-Cortina Games.

Dateline Moscow: The Cuban Missile Crisis  —  Never miss an article!  —  On October 28, 1962, a Sunday of crushing tension, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent an urgent letter to President John Kennedy reluctantly agreeing to “dismantle the arms, which you describe as offensive, and crate and return them to the Soviet Union.”

GOP's Bruce Blakeman to tap upstate NY sheriff as running mate against Gov. Hochul  —  Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman will tap an upstate sheriff known as tough-on-crime policies and a staunch pro-gun rights stance as his running mate, sources told The Post Sunday.

Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump  —  Libertarians can be annoying, with our constant bellyaching about privacy and taxes, our obsession with the First Amendment and our fearmongering about jackbooted thugs.  —  But in light of how the past year has unfolded, consider cutting your friendly neighborhood libertarian some slack.

Fulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows ‘callous disregard’ for constitutional rights … Boulee said unsealing the affidavit was appropriate due to “the importance of the public's access to judicial proceedings,” but he said he will allow Justice Department lawyers to redact the names of …

How Japan's Leader Rescued Her Party from the Abyss  —  Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.  —  Last summer, Japan's long-dominant political force, the Liberal Democratic Party, faced a crisis.

Transcript: Rep. Tony Gonzales on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb. 8, 2026  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 8, 2026.

Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm at Super Bowl Halftime  —  'We're still here,' Puerto Rican superstar says in Spanish while spiking a football  —  Bad Bunny delivered a pointed message in Spanish to millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl on Sunday night: “We're still here.”

Border czar warned immigration operations should be targeted to ‘keep the faith of the American people’  —  In an exclusive interview for an upcoming book, Tom Homan warned that public support for aggressive immigration tactics could falter.  —  Listen to this article with a free account