This Saturday, October 18, 2025, the United States will experience a new national day of “No Kings” protest, a vast anti-Trump movement organized in more than 2,500 cities across the country, but also in Canada and Mexico. This mobilization, supported by the Indivisible movement, denounces “authoritarian tendencies” of the 47th American president and the increased deployment of anti-immigration forces, in a context of shutdown which put more than 700,000 civil servants out of work.
Actor Robert De Niro revived the call for protests in a viral video, calling the president a “King Donald Iᵉʳ” and recalling that the United States was founded on the rejection of the monarchy. He invites citizens to defend democracy “non-violently”. Signs, songs and performances will symbolize the central message of the day: “No kings in America”. Already last June, hundreds of thousands of Americans marched shouting “No Kings” to criticize Donald Trump’s policies.
Earlier this week, in front of the Knesset, Donald Trump welcomed the release of the last twenty Hamas hostages and proclaimed “the dawn of a new Middle East”. Praising Benjamin Netanyahu and the Arab countries having contributed to this result, he was pleased to have “ended eight wars in eight months”. Promising the demilitarization of Gaza and the end of Hamas, he called for strengthening the Abraham Accords and criticized Joe Biden, ensuring that “the nightmare ends”.
2 – Canonizations in Rome
On Sunday, October 19, 2025, World Mission Day will take place, celebrated under the theme “Missionaries of hope among the peoples”. The canonization of seven blesseds will also take place in Rome. During a mass in Saint Peter’s Square, Pope Leo Peter To Rot, martyred Papuan catechist, Bartolo Longo, apostle of the Rosary in Pompeii, and José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, doctor of the poor in Venezuela.
The Pope recalled that this day, the culmination of World Mission Week, unites Catholics around the world in prayer and support for local Churches, emphasizing the indispensable generosity of the faithful to continue the work of evangelization.
3 – Formula 1: United States Grand Prix
The Formula 1 United States Grand Prix will take place this Sunday, October 19, 2025 on the Austin circuit, for the 19th round of the championship. The event will take place in the sprint format, with qualifying and sprint racing on Canal+ Sport, and the main race broadcast on Canal+ Sport 360. 5.513 km long, the route includes 20 turns and the drivers will have to cover 56 laps, or 308.4 km. Designed by architect Hermann Tilke, the circuit is famous for its first uphill turn and its sequences inspired by Silverstone and Istanbul.
Inaugurated in 2012, it has already seen Lewis Hamilton win two world titles in Austin, in 2015 and 2019. Between Miami and Las Vegas, this American stage symbolizes the strategy of Liberty Media, owner of F1 since 2017, which is banking on the North American market. Under his influence, the discipline was transformed into a true American spectacle, mixing sport, music and Hollywood staging to attract an ever-widening audience.
4 – Return of the Star Academy on TF1
This Saturday, October 18, the Star Academy is making its comeback on TF1 with an unprecedented promotion and a completely renovated castle in Dammarie-les-Lys. Three candidates have already been revealed: Théo, contacted live on NRJ, Sarah, presented during the Grand Rex showcase, and Léo, a young Lille resident passionate about music. The emblematic place has been modernized with a more contemporary decor and a detail that gets people talking: the famous tradition of walls scribbled by students continues, but in the corridor and no longer in the toilets, now protected by glass to preserve the old graffiti.
On the teachers’ side, few changes: Michael Goldman remains director, Sofia Morgavi, Lucie Bernardoni and Fanny Delaigue continue singing, Marlène Schaff keeps stage expression and Ladji Doucouré sports. On the other hand, Jonathan Jenvrin replaces Malika Benjelloun in dance and Alain Degois, alias Grandparesumes the theater.
5 – The good news of the day
The Musée d’Orsay has been exhibiting since Tuesday October 14 The Desperatefamous self-portrait by Gustave Courbet, visible for the first time in France in 17 years. Painted around 1844-1845, this small-format oil on canvas (45×54 cm) shows the artist at age 25, his face gripped by fear and madness, in a chiaroscuro of great mastery.
The work, known worldwide but rarely shown, belongs to Qatar Museums, which is lending it to Orsay for five years. It had not been exhibited in France since the 2007-2008 retrospective. Remaining in private collections for a long time, it bears witness to the eventful history of Courbet, exiled in Switzerland after the Commune of 1871. This loan, signed in April 2024 thanks to Sylvain Amic, who has since disappeared, symbolizes the cooperation between Doha and Paris and pays tribute to his vision of a culture without borders.
