Maine state Rep. Valli Geiger said Graham Platner encouraged her to consider replacing him in the Senate race but he has not dropped out yet and others are being discussed as possible contenders.
President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to withhold some federal funding from states that don't make changes to voting practices and is warning state election officials that they face arrest if they don't remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
Maine Beer Company co-founder Dan Kleban said Wednesday that he's all in to replace scandal-plagued Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner, who has yet to drop out of the race.
Planned Parenthood’s Northwest affiliate is suing Alaska to challenge the state’s ban on telehealth abortion. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Alaska state court, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK) said the state’s requirement that patients seeking medication abortion must be seen in person violates Alaskans’ constitutional right to abortion. The organization is seeking a preliminary injunction...
The State Department on Thursday announced that it will sanction Cuba's state-owned oil and gas company Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET) amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and the island country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the latest sanctions are pursuant of President Trump's May 1 executive order expanding sanctions on government officials, agents "or material...
Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee this week pushed forward the Trump administration’s desired “Department of War” name change in passing their version of the annual defense policy bill. In closed-door deliberations over its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the panel included language to formally change the Department of Defense to the...
Jacob Reses, Vice President Vance’s chief of staff who has been with him since his Senate campaign, will be leaving the role at the end of the summer. Reses has served in the role since Vance took office with President Trump in January 2025. “Jacob’s been by my side for my whole career in public...
President Trump announced his new pick to lead the intelligence community, saying he would tap former Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence. The move comes as Trump was under increasing pressure to reverse course after naming Bill Pulte as an acting head of the intelligence community. Both...
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked Republicans' attempt to pass a short-term extension of the nation's spy powers by unanimous consent. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the chamber for unanimous consent to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) until July 2, but Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) objected. Wyden also objected to a...
El Niño has officially begun, the Climate Prediction Center announced Thursday. And it's not just any El Niño — this year's is shaping up to be one for the record books.
A top election handicapper shifted a trio of Senate races toward Democrats, as the minority party looks to regain control of the upper chamber this November. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics shifted the Alaska race from leans Republican to toss-up, the North Carolina race from toss-up to leans Democratic...
Three Indian mariners were killed on board a tanker struck by U.S. forces earlier this week over allegedly violating Washington’s blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, according to New Delhi. Indian Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the three people were killed in the “tragic incident” aboard the Palau-flagged MT Settebello. The seafarers...
The European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday ahead of Kevin Warsh’s first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as chair of the Federal Reserve next week. “The war in the Middle East is generating inflation pressures and the decision to raise rates is robust across a range of...
The U.S. and Iran traded strikes for a second night, with President Trump saying the Americans launched 49 Tomahawk missiles at targets in the Islamic Republic. On Thursday morning, Trump vowed to hit Iran again "very hard tonight." "At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other...
A federal judge on Wednesday tossed a watchdog group’s lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) scrapped $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the request for a temporary restraining order by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group, which bills itself as nonpartisan, argued in its...
President Trump on Thursday morning vowed more attacks on Iran and threatened to seize Kharg Island, after the two countries exchanged fresh strikes this week. “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY...
