3/23/26☀️ AM: … The House and Senate are in session this week.  The House returns Tuesday.  The Senate, which has been in all weekend, is scheduled to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as Department of Homeland Security secretary tonight.

ICE agents arrive at U.S. airports amid TSA staff shortages, funding fight  —  President Donald Trump has suggested the agents would be arresting undocumented immigrants at airports.  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at several airports Monday to assist …

Italy's Meloni seen narrowly losing justice referendum, exit polls say  —  Exit polls on Monday suggested Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had narrowly lost a referendum on her flagship reform of the judicial system, dealing a potential blow to the ruling coalition ahead of next year's general election.

How Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire's Problems With Women … In October 2017, a yoga instructor emailed Jeffrey Epstein with a delicate question: When might she receive the tens of thousands of dollars she'd been promised by the billionaire Leon Black?  —  She and Mr. Black …

California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election  —  Republican Chad Bianco investigating Prop 50 vote despite officials denying claims of ballots being cast unlawfully  —  A California sheriff who is running as a Republican for governor has seized …

Federal government employees are not ok  —  A new survey shows collapsing morale amidst ineffective leadership  —  Imagine you inherited a large, complex business.  You don't have time to run it yourself, but you recognize its importance.  So you hire a management team.

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids  —  The baby needed somewhere to go.  So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.  As squad cars waited outside the family's Lakeland …

The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  💬 Subscribe to PN 💬  —  This weekend, the Republicans thrashed about in the Senate like rotting, mildly electrocuted trout as they attempted …

Control tower at Newark airport outside NYC evacuated over burning smell  —  A burning smell prompted the control tower at Newark airport outside of New York City to be evacuated, and a ground stop was ordered, the Federal Aviation Administration said.  —  Air traffic was paused around 7:30 …

Trump Poised to Skip CPAC For First Time in a Decade  —  President Donald Trump is poised to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, breaking with an annual tradition that has helped define his political rise and cement his hold over the modern conservative movement.

Republicans privately fear this swing state Democrat  —  Behind closed doors, Republicans have tamped down their hopes of unseating Jon Ossoff, a 39-year-old powerhouse fundraiser, as he seeks another term.  —  Rep. Buddy Carter warned a crowd of Republicans in Roberta, Georgia …

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death  —  The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence  —  It appears that members of Trump's cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them.  Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes.

Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda  —  In the latest battle over the future of Voice of America, a fresh group of veteran Voice of America journalists are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging that she is promoting pro-Trump propaganda on air.

Trump Rejects Exit Ramp on TSA Spending Impasse  —  President says he wants resolution of Homeland Security fight tied to voter-ID legislation  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security …

Supreme Court rejects citizen journalist's case against Texas officials who arrested her for reporting  —  Officials in Laredo dropped the charges against Priscilla Villarreal, but she then filed a civil rights lawsuit, alleging they violated her free speech rights under the First Amendment.

March 22, 2026  —  President Donald J. Trump's behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies.  On Thursday he defended his failure to inform allies and partners about his February 28 attack on Iran by telling a Japanese reporter he wanted the element of surprise.

It's three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump … The denials have blocked Democratic-led states from getting a total of $250 million in disaster aid that would have been approved by every previous president including Trump in his first term, E&E News found.

Is This Uncharismatic Leader Exactly What the Democrats Need?  —  DNC Chair Ken Martin has a plan to return Democrats to power, but he needs to keep the party from tearing itself apart first  —  “There are politicians who have the ‘it factor,’ and are highly charismatic,” Ken Martin …

Rubio to testify in trial of former roommate accused of secretly lobbying for Venezuela  —  Not since Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan testified at a mafia trial in 1983 has a sitting member of the president's Cabinet taken the stand in a criminal trial.  —  MIAMI — The federal trial …

‘When will it end?’  The ‘elevator pitch’ oil executives and diplomats are making to the White House in Houston … If there's one message the industry wants to deliver to the administration, according to interviews with half a dozen energy industry executives and foreign diplomats planning …