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Search for suspects continues after shooting at Ohio festival injures 12

Police continued searching Sunday for multiple suspects after a shooting near an Ohio street festival left 12 people wounded, including two critically injured, authorities said. The gunfire erupted Saturday evening near Toledo’s annual Old West End Festival, a community event with live music in which several hundred people were in attendance. Investigators believed at least […]

Four scandals Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing

Maine is less than one week away from primary Election Day as Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner seems poised to pick up his party’s nomination despite several mounting scandals connected to his name. Platner, an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran, has faced multiple controversies since announcing his populist campaign for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat […]

Maine primary elections: Races to watch

Primary elections in the Pine Tree State are taking shape ahead of next week’s voting, with the governor’s office, a Senate seat, and congressional races all on the ballot as Maine voters prepare to head to the polls on Tuesday. Polling places across Maine will open sometime between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, […]

First round of June Social Security payments goes out in three days

The first round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on June 10. The second round will go out on June 17 to those born between the […]

A critic takes the measure of ‘Bluey’

Some months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I learned that my children had begun watching the Australian cartoon series “Bluey.” My first instinct was to deliver a sermon on politicization. Surely the Land Down Under, imposer of some of the strictest lockdown measures on the planet, would use its cultural export to lecture children on the […]

From a Mamdani guru to a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, here’s who’s helping Platner

Embattled Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign team includes an interesting cast of characters. From the Democratic Socialists of America couple who knocked on his door and recruited him to run to a pivotal adviser who helped elect New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last year, here are some members of the crew […]

Can a Bush Republican still win? Maine Governor’s race Tests MAGA’s grip

As Republicans battle for Maine’s gubernatorial nomination, the race is emerging as a test of whether a traditional New England Republican can still compete in a GOP increasingly shaped by President Donald Trump. At the center of that debate is Jonathan Bush, a healthcare entrepreneur and nephew of former President George H.W. Bush, whose candidacy […]

Graham Platner fires back at Fetterman: ‘It’s not the hoodie, dude’

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner attacked Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on social media Saturday night after the Pennsylvania lawmaker said he’d wear a suit “every day” if Platner released the texts and messages he has allegedly sent to other women. Fetterman said on Fox News’s “Saturday in America” that he has not heard from the […]

Pratt questions how votes get counted in California as lead over Nithya Raman shrinks

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt questioned California’s vote-counting system for the first time Saturday night as his lead over Councilwoman Nithya Raman shrank. Pratt, who is competing against Raman in the primary to challenge Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, held a less than 10,000-vote lead over Raman as of Saturday night, after leading by […]

‘Many victims’ at shooting at street festival in Toledo, Ohio: Authorities

The Toledo Police Department said Saturday evening “many victims have been transported to nearby medical facilities for treatment” after officers responded to a report of a person shot near a community street festival. The department is currently searching for the suspect or suspects involved, and asked the public to “expect a significant police presence as […]
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