Trump Pulled In About $1.4 Billion From Crypto Ventures, Financial Disclosure Shows  —  The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family's holdings, particularly the president's crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.  — 1.1k

Five takeaways in Colorado primaries as DSA candidate ousts congresswoman, Democrats reject senator, big money falters  —  Phil Weiser's late surge in governor's race overcomes outside spending backing Sen. Michael Bennet  —  Colorado's Democratic primary voters pushed hard against Washington …

A vote away from undoing the civil war  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🏛️ Subscribe to PN 🏛️  —  It won't come as news to Public Notice readers that the Supreme Court, in the hands of the worst chief justice …

House Dems rocked by another socialist upset: “Wake up call”  —  House Democrats were staggered Wednesday by the loss of yet another one of their longtime colleagues to a democratic socialist challenger. … So why did she become a target of the left?  — “One more case in the growing dynamic …

Another Major Precedent Crumbles at the Supreme Court.  3 Legal Scholars Assess the Fallout.  —  Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with William Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown …

MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly  —  After the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump and MAGA lost it.  Trump threatened to get Congress to end the guarantee, which it can't do, and he lamely claimed it was a …

Five Words That Changed America  —  There is a moment for every American when she first encounters the Declaration of Independence.  For most, it comes to her as scripture — the highest and most sacred text in the nation's civic religion, encapsulated by its moving assertion of human equality …

Scoop: Harris reaches out to Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in run-up to 2028  —  Kamala Harris privately called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week and has been holding lengthy, closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives — including pro-Palestinian activists.

Scoop: Trump backs MAHA in heated, “shocking” Oval Office fight on pesticides  —  Tensions over pesticide use erupted in an Oval Office meeting last week, as a top agriculture lobbyist warned President Trump that an executive order calling for pest-killing alternatives would cost Trump support from farming interests.

Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll says Trump wants to delay $5 million payment in sex abuse, defamation case  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Lawyers for President Trump asked for writer E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her by a 2023 jury, and signaled they plan to ask …

Texas Republicans may regret mandating Bible in classes  —  Debating Christianity in class will likely create more non-believers  —  The decades-long Republican quest to force Christianity on those they see as unwashed heathens reached a new low on June 26, when the GOP-controlled Texas …

A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification  —  In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions …

Tom Kean Jr. kept his depression a secret.  Colleagues are questioning that decision. … “You give up the right to privacy in a certain respect when you run for office and represent that many people,” she said.  “And so I do challenge our colleagues to be more transparent when these things happen.”

ICE's arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas  —  The president's deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman joined Democrats calling for the sister's release.  —  Summary  —  SAN ANTONIO — Sister Leticia …

Trump Took Out Giant, Mysterious Loan Last Year  —  Donald Trump secured a massive loan from Charles Schwab Bank last year, leaving his debt profile murkier than it has been in ages.  —  The principal on the new loan amounts to more than $50 million and its interest rate is 3.9% …

A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago.  We still don't know the full story  —  It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.  Most of the victims were children.  —  In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory.

‘This One!’:  Trump Is Already Planning To Steal Classified Docs Again  —  Time is a flat circle... especially when it comes to Donald Trump's lawlessness and pettiness.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Remember that open-and-shut federal criminal case where Donald Trump clearly committed serious crimes …

FBI determines Nancy Guthrie kidnapping notes to be fakes, source says  —  All three kidnapping-related messages that have surfaced in news media reports about the disappearance of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother have been deemed by federal investigators to be fake communications …

Control of the Senate Is Up for Grabs, Times/Siena Polls Find  —  Republicans are defending seats in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas as they try to maintain their majority.  Democrats are competitive in all six states — but not leading in enough to take the chamber.

A Verdict on (the) Slaughter  —  Never mind the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship — that was a foregone conclusion given that it is a totally unambiguous provision of the Constitution (although three Republican justices voted against it!).  The important decision was handed down yesterday …

Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks for Order Forcing Trump Administration to Preserve Records  —  Lawyers for John O. Brennan said they want the materials saved in anticipation of bringing a vindictive prosecution motion if charges against Mr. Brennan are ultimately filed.

Trump Briefed on All-Out War Options in Iran but Opts to Stick With Talks  —  The president has told aides that he is fine if negotiations with Tehran blow past an Aug. 18 deadline for a nuclear deal, officials say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has weighed a return to all-out war with Iran …

Pulte to be acting DNI for ‘a month or two’ and can ‘declassify almost everything,’ Trump says … Trump's comments come after he killed a Senate plan last month to quickly confirm Clayton as the new DNI, paving the way for Pulte to helm the agency on a temporary basis.

What is the United States of America now?  —  The United States of America is ... so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed  —  The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch.  The United States of America is a program that has been hacked.