Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension.  Now He's Eligible to Play.  —  The reversal of Folarin Balogun's World Cup suspension is highly unusual.  It was the first time since 1962 that FIFA has nullified a suspension for a red card received during the World Cup.  — 1.5k

Trump's Deranged ‘Lewinsky Room’ Offer to World Leader Revealed  —  GOODIE BAGS  —  He also tried to offload a few pairs of his favorite dress shoes.  —  Donald Trump tried to foist tacky MAGA freebies onto an official delegation from Europe and told his visitors that their wives could sell …

ICE's Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics  —  The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.  —  Voting was already underway when the ICE agents arrived …

In Trump's Second Midterm, Democrats Are Looking for Fighters  —  Attitudes in the party have shifted, Democrats say, with a growing appetite for outsider candidates vowing to overhaul the system.  Some worry that the trend could be costly in November.  —  With President Trump's second term …

How Kalshi infects the news  —  This is a special collaboration between Public Notice and Judd Legum of Popular Information.  For more news and analysis from Judd and his team, subscribe to Popular Information HERE.  —  In December 2025, CNN and CNBC struck landmark deals with Kalshi, a leading prediction market.

There Are Many Things That Could Increase the Birth Rate.  This Major One Is Usually Ignored.  —  Conservatives often lay the blame for declining fertility at women's feet.  They're wrong.  —  The summer I turned 39, my husband and I moved from Brooklyn to a darling little village in upstate New York.

What Rahm Emanuel's Upcoming Israel Speech Reveals About Democrats … Rahm Emanuel is in Israel this week to deliver a speech designed to be a thunderclap.  The combination of message and messenger should produce a loud echo.  —  The message is that the war in Gaza and shifts in American …

Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario  —  As public opinion of AI shifts into negative, warnings of mass employment reductions diminish  —  A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs.  For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone.

White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’  —  A scathing report released on the Fourth of July says the National Museum of American History downplays the role of the founders while emphasizing social justice.  —  In a broadside posted to its website …

What's inside the one bill Trump most desperately wants to become law  —  President Donald Trump has been on a single-minded, months-long quest to try and get one particular bill — the SAVE America Act — through Congress.  —  It's a bill that would transform voting registration …

Trump's MAGA Inc. is sitting on $350M.  Republicans want to see it.  —  President Donald Trump is trying to boost Republicans' midterm prospects by branding Democrats as communists, implementing a fragile truce with Iran, and touting plummeting gasoline prices.

NASA Leader Flew His Vintage Jet at DC Air Show Over FAA Objections  —  The regulator initially denied Jared Isaacman's request to fly in the Freedom 250 celebration, calling the aircraft too dangerous for densely populated areas  —  NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman flew a vintage jet fighter …

‘The View’ throttles back political candidate bookings following FCC inquiry  —  The Scoop  —  The Federal Communications Commission has already changed the programming of one of television's last remaining relevant daytime talk shows — before even making any formal demands.

Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital kills at least 12  —  Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 12 people in an attack that exposed widening gaps in Ukraine's air defenses, authorities said.  All of the ballistic missiles launched …

Pump and Dump and Trump  —  For all my interviews and more, subscribe on YouTube.  —  Transcript  —  Donald Trump has distinguished himself in many ways.  One of them is that he is our first pump and dump president.  —  Hi, Paul Krugman here.  A podcast today rather than a full-on piece …

Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Reflecting Pool  —  The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved.

Trump plugs Dell at first-ever White House opening bell, sending shares soaring … President Donald Trump on Monday promoted Dell's computers from the White House after ringing the opening bell of the stock market in the Oval Office in a first-of-its-kind joint ceremony with the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.

Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble  —  A draft report inside the Treasury Department is set to warn of the risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, likening key aspects of it to the dotcom bubble that upended the U.S. economy when it burst in the early 2000s.

Trump Is Using Your Baby to Keep Elon Musk's Bubble Bloated  —  What happens when a company's valuation depends on people believing something its own bondholders don't?  If you're Elon Musk, you get the federal government to help you convince a newborn's bank account.

Israel Cabinet Threatens to Defy Supreme Court as Election Looms  —  Israel's government said it won't respect a Supreme Court ruling on a broadcast regulatory body, prompting accusations that it's paving the way to a constitutional crisis ahead of national elections.