Maine Democrats on Friday nominated former state senator Troy Jackson to replace former Senate candidate Graham Platner on the ballot, launching a 101-day sprint for the party to build a coalition capable of ousting Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Jackson easily clinched the nomination during a state convention in Bangor, where hundreds of Democratic delegates from […]

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida, in another escalation over vital shipping routes in the Middle East, while the United States and Iran vie for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis’ military […]

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Friday called for President Donald Trump to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, echoing progressive calls against the Jewish leader. The California Democrat cited the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant as the basis for Netanyahu’s detention, and called on Trump to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin as well. Netanyahu is […]

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to put up signs highlighting a report that concluded the country’s leading cultural center put ideological bias over historical facts.  The 162-page report from the White House’s Domestic Policy Council was released earlier this month, and it wrote that “ideological capture has […]