A former girlfriend of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner came forward on Tuesday with allegations that he would remove condoms during sex without her consent. The ex-partner’s allegations are the latest for Platner after a bombshell report on Monday alleged Platner sexually assaulted a different ex-girlfriend, which ultimately led Democrats and institutions to rescind […]

State legislators will descend on Maryland’s capital in an August special session to remove a key constitutional hurdle preventing Democrats from picking up a GOP congressional seat. The Maryland General Assembly, which comprises both the state House of Representatives and Senate, will meet several months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act […]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday closely questioned whether the first Trump administration in 2017 went too far in expanding religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, hearing arguments in the latest chapter of the decadelong legal battle involving the Little Sisters of the Poor. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of […]

An illegal immigrant was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston on Tuesday following a traffic stop that led to an alleged vehicle ramming. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was stopped by ICE officers “as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien” when Araujo attempted […]