Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison: 4 killed, 5 hurt  —  The suspected shooter, a juvenile believed to be a student, is also dead.  —  LIVE  —  Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where multiple injuries were reported following a shooting, Dec. 16, 2024.

Trudeau considering his options as leader after Freeland quits cabinet, sources say  —  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering his options as leader, sources tell CTV News, after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland revealed she will quit cabinet.  —  In an explosive resignation letter …

Maybe Democrats Didn't Do So Badly After All  —  Five days after last month's election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party's performance.  “That was a cataclysm,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on X.  “Electoral map wipeout.”  Donald Trump had won both the popular vote …

Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer: report  —  The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad's forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.

Trump says he's a ‘believer’ in polio vaccine, and other news conference takeaways  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing …

Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’  —  Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate court judge, wrote an angry letter to President Biden describing bigotry he faced in the confirmation process.  —  The first Muslim American …

A Constitutional Convention?  Some Democrats Fear It's Coming.  —  Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue.  Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.

The Price of American Retreat  —  Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy  —  Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell is a Senator from Kentucky and served as U.S. Senate Republican Leader from 2007 through 2024.  —  When he begins his second term as president …

Trump, SoftBank CEO to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S.  —  The president-elect is set to appear with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Mar-a-Lago on Monday  —  PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are set to jointly announce on Monday that the company …

Crypto is for Criming  —  It's not digital gold — it's digital Benjamins  —  The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee crypto players the right to a checking account …

Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They're Needed Most  —  OPENSECRETS, THE NONPROFIT RESEARCH ORGANIZATION dedicated to disclosing the role of money in politics, laid off one-third of its staff last month due to financial difficulties.  This sparked understandable concern in newsrooms …

How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration  —  Not long ago, immigration was a winning issue for Democrats.  When Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, his defeat was blamed, in part, on his hard-line stance in favor of “self-deportation”—making life so hard for immigrants that they would choose to return to their home country.

Trump Says He'll Sue Pollster Ann Selzer for Wrong Prediction  —  Donald Trump announced Monday he would sue political pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, who published a shock poll showing Trump losing Iowa by three points.  “I'm not doing this because I want to …

ABC bends the knee  —  📝 Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button below to sign up and support our independent journalism.  📝  —  🎄 Subscribe to Public Notice 🎄  —  Since the election …

TikTok asks Supreme Court to block law that could ban popular app  —  The law will go into effect on Jan. 19 if the justices don't grant the company's request.  —  WASHINGTON — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a law that could potentially ban the video-based social media app, which has millions of American users.

Another Federal Judge Reverses Decision To Retire, Ruins Trump's Plans To Fill His Seat  —  U.S. appeals court judge James Wynn, an Obama appointee, is the third judge to change his mind about retiring since Trump won reelection.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON — For the third time since Donald Trump won …

Trump says Russia-Ukraine peace may be harder than Middle East  —  President-elect Trump on Monday expressed confidence that he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine but also stressed that it would be difficult and possibly harder to solve than the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Trump vows to fire 49K work-from-home federal employees if they don't return to office  —  The 2020 pandemic resulted in many businesses moving employees work from home — and some have yet to return to their office spaces.  President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that included 49,000 federal workers …

New House Repub Tells Audience ‘We Need a Lot More Daniel Pennys’ Because There Are ‘Far Too Many Jordan Neelys’ In This Country  —  Congressman-elect Brandon Gill (R-TX) on Sunday opened his remarks at the New York Young Republican Club annual gala with praise for Daniel Penny …

Kamala Harris' digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’  —  Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty turned his attention to sports.  —  The campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics.

Former FBI informant pleads guilty to lying about phony bribery scheme involving the Bidens  —  A former FBI informant pleaded guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?  —  Governor of New York wants to protect CEOs  —  New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats, CNN reported this morning.  Nice little reminder of just how responsive government can be when it comes to corporate executives.

The J6 “False Flag” Conspiracy Garbage Debunked  —  In a report that should've received wall-to-wall media coverage, late last week the Department of Justice's Inspector General (DoJ IG) released its long-awaited report debunking MAGA-world's conspiracy theory crap that the FBI …

Supreme Court declines appeal from Peter Navarro; Trump White House aide to return after prison term  —  The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Peter Navarro, the former White House official who is set to return in Donald Trump's second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges.

Here's what we WON'T do when Trump takes over  —  As democracy defenders, we're facing hard times when authoritarian Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.  But what will we do about it?  For now, I'm focusing on what we won't do:  —  We won't shut up.  —  We won't retreat from the news.