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In their rush to find a strong candidate to run against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Democrats should have more thoroughly vetted their party's nominee.
BlackECE wants AAVE added to a California dual language learners program, arguing Black English is a legitimate language deserving school resources.
Hopefully, by the time you read this, Graham Platner will have dropped out of the Senate race in Maine. If he hasn't, he needs to, immediately.
In reality, he holds all the cards.
A New York Times columnist who has repeatedly risen to the defense of U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is now publicly accepting
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
‘Why him? He’s not impressive.’
Graham Platner repeatedly slammed a lawmaker for infidelity in Reddit posts years before his own campaign confirmed he sent sexual messages to women.
A one-year defund still represents an important achievement for pro-lifers.
Trump told Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. would license Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems, adding the companies had not yet been informed.
Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify on a $20.5 million budget increase request, with most of the funding aimed at boosting security.
Potential candidates and their backers moved quickly to gain an edge in the contest over who would replace Graham Platner if he exits the key Senate race.
Leaders of many American colleges have long shown they have no backbone when it comes to opposing radical elements who want to subvert our institutions.
Emma Waters, pregnant with her third child, is crafting policy to encourage early parenthood. Some think she is pushing an ideology that does not meet reality.
The ruling, based on an agreement the Trump administration signed with Florida last year, contradicted an earlier order by a judge in Washington that required the access be suspended.
Jefferson emerges as a man who doubted democracy's permanence yet placed his faith in future generations. Onuf and Cogliano rescue him from caricature—even if one dimension of his thought remains in shadow.
Unearthed video shows Abdul El-Sayed questioning whether police need guns and their funding despite repeated claims he never backed defunding.
Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants surged 7,100% from $200 million to $14.4 billion between 2019 and 2025, sparking fraud probes.
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It was a dramatic departure from Trump’s more acerbic tone toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he once derided as ungrateful.
Charles Dingman, chair of the Maine Democratic Party and a progressive, would play a key role in choosing the state’s Democratic Senate candidate if Graham Platner leaves the race.
NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg on how Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and the UN's "civil society" experiment were hijacked — and why journalists still buy it.
The Democratic Socialists of America have notched some impressive primary wins over the past couple of weeks. In New York, two DSA members beat Democratic establishment candidates - including the sitting chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus …
Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards was declared missing after what the Navy said was an emergency water landing during a routine patrol.
Iran said it had targeted more than 80 U.S. military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, after the U.S. launched strikes in response to attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The campaign for the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine called the allegation “categorically false and politically motivated.”
Apart from the Declaration and Constitution, there is perhaps no more essentially American document than Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet ‘Common Sense.’
The Declaration of Independence at 250.
State Fair attendees question why Democrats ignored Graham Platner's string of scandals and only demanded he drop out after a rape allegation surfaced.
The Democrat, who has withstood other scandals since launching his challenge to Sen. Susan Collins (R), is accused of sexual assault by a woman he previously dated.
The military operation came hours after the U.S. Treasury revoked a waiver allowing global sales of Iranian oil.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
The Maine Democrat has faced an escalating string of scandals as he competes for a critical Senate seat that could determine control of the chamber.
Thirty years as a high-functioning neurodivergent project manager.
Can we all pray that America does better with recruiting to Congress — a “no creeper” rule, as a modest start?
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The president embraced the alliance in a meeting Wednesday, extolling nations’ defense spending and saying nothing about the Danish territory, officials said.
Some voters said they stuck with the progressive candidate through several controversies, but drew the line after a new allegation of sex assault.
Mark Carney says Trump has "won the argument" on NATO defense spending, crediting years of U.S. pressure for shifting the security burden to allies.
Iran has demonstrated that it will not give Trump the placid midterm election cycle he wants.
Polling shows the economy, Trump's strongest issue during his 2024 campaign, is now his greatest weakness.
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Already near the breaking point, he held no special advantage among some key Maine voting groups he was expected to win over.
Fund manager Derek Francis tells Claire Lehmann that Treasury's modelling of Australia's new capital gains tax contains a basic error — one that could push tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent.
The former Chicago mayor, a Democrat exploring a 2028 presidential run, delivered a speech in Tel Aviv that was sharply critical of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Americans are understandably astonished when recent immigrants from failed states-plagued by caste prejudice, dictatorship, endemic racism, religious intolerance, Marxist-induced poverty, antisemitism, systemic violence, misogyny, and homophobia-b…
The Little Sisters are living the Gospel, but the government — federal and state — is fixated on sex.
Critics have been howling at Vice President JD Vance lately. The wailing and aspersions flow from predictable quarters, especially the legacy media and the establishment GOP neocons.
The claim, outlined in court papers, contends information shared with Iran could jeopardize the lives of pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities and LGTBQ people.
Lawyers for Trump filed a rehearing petition after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal of the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment last week.
A top state party official said that Graham Platner’s team had “repeatedly” tried to “put their thumb on the scale,” but he would not influence how the party chose a new Senate candidate.
At their first one-on-one debate in a top Senate race, Representative Haley Stevens accused her progressive rival, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, of being too focused on publicity as he called her a tool of corporate interests.
Scratch their surface and you see exactly what he's trying to do: stand up strong for intolerance and corruption
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To understand the intent of the US Declaration of Independence, recall that its primary author was a deist rather than a Christian.
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
CNN's Scott Jennings wonders why the latest accusation against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner seems to have broken the camel's back.
Oil prices are likely to remain volatile as long as the United States and Iran are unable to resolve the status of the Strait of Hormuz.
Resist antisemitism. Know history. We can’t go down these roads again.
Comparing yourself to others locks you into a contest you can never win and makes other people’s wins feel like your defeats.
State Sen. Doug Mastriano says the crash that killed a Pennsylvania state trooper on Interstate 81 exposed highway safety and immigration failures.
Sen. Tim Scott accuses Chuck Schumer and The New York Times of coordinating to delay damaging allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.
If he says the accusation is false, why is he "taking time to reflect on the best path forward"? What are the chances he'll try to ride this out to the end?
President Trump has rarely missed an opportunity to castigate the Western military alliance, whose leaders he’s meeting this week, as weak and ineffective.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, a liberal and a conservative, are set to testify before a House subcommittee next Tuesday.
UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health and Cigna are battling efforts to break up their control over prescription drugs.
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
The extraordinary story of how a fragile Holocaust songbook, hidden for decades in a Sydney cupboard, came back to the world.
The midterm election is less than four months away, and Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress, yet their track record has been abysmal.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
A preliminary hearing to establish whether there is enough evidence against Tyler James Robinson for the case to proceed to trial enters Day 3 in Utah.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
This daughter of the church can minister, even from heaven, in a most intimate way.
Pro-life groups have been insisting that Congress and the White House act to keep Planned Parenthood defunded. Crickets. We hear crickets.
There are painful but necessary lessons to be learned from the Maine Democratic Senate candidate's rise and fall.
Can’t I have just one place that stays the same?
The message that younger workers need to hear is not nuanced.
Dick Durbin said Trump "wisely" pushed NATO allies to spend more on defense, calling it "not an unreasonable ask" during the summit in Turkey.