Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign was shaken to its core on Monday following allegations he sexually assaulted a woman, throwing his challenge to Republican Sen. Susan Collins into grave doubt.Platner took to X on Monday to deny the allegations — but political observers not…
First, full disclosure: I’m not a soccer fan. I’m a football fan, and a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. So, having said that, let’s start with a hypothetical.Say the Steelers are heading into a playoff game and their best defensive player just got suspended for a hit the league ruled illegal.Team o…
A future Congress could undo some of the Supreme Court’s most consequential rulings from this term, a new Slate opinion piece argues, naming five federal laws an analyst says lawmakers should move to restore.Writing Monday for the outlet’s “Opinionpalooza” series, columnist Alexis Romero contends th…
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has been accused of sexual assault, according to Politico on Monday.The accuser, “a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks.” A man Racicot dated corroborated the incid…
MAGA loyalists were furious Monday after music legend Bruce Springsteen said he was a true “patriot” and called out President Donald Trump.In a PBS special called “Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song,” the musician talked about fighting for a better America and encouraging others to do the sa…
A federal judge blocked part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, citing the president’s own “preference” for white immigrants.U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley of the Southern District of Ohio issued the ruling Monday, blocking three U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services poli…
The war between House Republicans and their counterparts in the Senate over passing Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act shows no sign of ending as the House leadership has attempted to do the president’s bidding, resorting to threats. According to MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell, one Republican senator whose v…
President Donald Trump gathered a group of young children on the Oval Office carpet Monday as the backdrop for the launch of “Trump Accounts,” his investment program for kids — and some of them had heard enough.”When is this over?” one child whispered about halfway through the nearly 90-minute event…
A prominent MAGA figure is demanding answers regarding Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who in mid-June was discovered in his home unconscious and has not been seen publicly since.“I think this whole situation surrounding Mitch McConnell just became far more serious,” argued Kylie Jane Kremer, a promine…
The White House marked the country’s 250th birthday by releasing a 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of “extreme political activism” and blaming its leaders for erasing the nation’s heritage, The Washington Post reported Monday, calling it “yet another es…