Graham Platner may be the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November, but Senate Democrats are keeping the progressive insurgent at arm’s length amid a new extramarital sexting scandal. Platner, who has already weathered scrutiny over past racist and sexist Reddit posts and for having a tattoo of a Nazi […]
A gunman killed six family members on Monday and then himself when confronted by law enforcement in Muscatine, Iowa, police said. Muscatine police identified 52-year-old Ryan Willis McFarland as the alleged shooter, with the killings occurring across multiple locations and believed to have stemmed from a domestic dispute. Police were first alerted to the shootings […]
The Justice Department’s agreement to temporarily pause its anti-weaponization fund marks a rare retreat from President Donald Trump’s White House as a legal challenge unfolds and opposition from congressional Republicans threatens to blow up a party-line budget bill. The department’s Monday announcement that it would “abide by” a court order pausing the creation and operation […]
The hosts of ABC’s The View blasted Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner on Monday over the growing backlash surrounding explicit text messages and allegations of extramarital relationships, adding to a string of controversies that have dogged his campaign. “Horrible. There is no doubt that this guy Plattner is flawed, flawed, flawed in many ways,” […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military’s operations in southern Lebanon would continue unabated, seemingly contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that a ceasefire was now in place. On Monday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he had conversations with both Netanyahu and Hezbollah through intermediaries and that both had pledged not to attack […]
The White House revealed Monday that entrepreneur Nate Morris has been asked to serve as ambassador to Colombia, ending weeks of speculation over a deal that helped narrow the primary field in Kentucky’s Senate race. Morris bowed out of the race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the request of President Donald Trump, […]
An Israeli soldier has been killed and multiple more were injured as the Israel Defense Forces holds onto a historic fort in Lebanon that has become a symbol of the country’s previous occupations. An Israeli militia staff sergeant died Monday in a Hezbollah drone attack that injured three others near Beaufort Castle, a dilapidated fortress […]
The Transportation Department issued a subpoena to New York as federal investigators probe a deadly Interstate 95 bus crash in Virginia, accusing the state of failing to provide records related to the commercial driver’s license of the driver involved in the wreck. The subpoena, issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and obtained by […]
Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) suggested she could restart her Maine Senate campaign after suspending it in April against Democrat Graham Platner as the embattled progressive insurgent faces fallout from his latest scandal involving sexts to women who were not his wife. “People have the impression that I ‘withdrew’ or ‘dropped out,’” Mills told the Portland […]
Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) on Monday ordered the Oregon DMV to continue halting the issuance of undercover license plates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in resistance to the Trump administration, which has deemed it unconstitutional. A May 28 press release from the Department of Justice said the department filed lawsuits against Maine, Washington, Oregon, […]
