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[ad_1] Democratic Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner announced on X that he is suspending his Senate campaign and denies the sexual assault allegations against him. In a lengthy video message, Platner argued that “large forces” and the political establishment used the accusations to force him out.GRAHAM PLATNER: Hey everyone, it’s Graham Platner here. I think as many of you know, over the past couple days, I have faced some very serious allegations. And I just want to make it clear, this is all false.The things that have been claimed did not happen. It’s not real. It has placed an immense…

[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton told voters it’s time to retire U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who has held elected office longer than Moulton has been alive, while the incumbent argued he will continue to fight for Massachusetts voters. The Democrats faced off on the debate stage for the first time July 8 in Chicopee.  Markey, who will turn 80 on July 11, has held elected office for over 53 years, first serving in the state legislature. Moulton, a 47-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran, was elected to Congress in 2014.  “We need someone who is going to change the playbook, invest…

[ad_1] Prominent economist Bryan Caplan and political commentator Richard Hanania have started a “Sixteen Fun Facts About Me” meme on their respective blogs/substacks. Here is my list (in rough chronological order): 1. I was born in the then-Soviet Union. As an infant and toddler, I spent a lot of time in the hospital, due to various ailments. One time, a nurse asked my mother if I was her only child. She said yes. “That’s unfortunate,” the nurse commented, with typically awful Soviet bedside manner, “because this one probably won’t live.” Fortunately, the nurse turned out to be wrong, and I…

[ad_1] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has warned that artificial intelligence-powered digital nuclear weapons could increase rivalries between already warring nations. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said that “AI tools will only continue to raise the stakes in our competition with all of America’s adversaries.” The United States’ Hypocrisy On Nuclear Weapons It would be “not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons,” he added, citing discussions within the administration of United States President Donald Trump. Ratcliffe further claimed that rival nations “work to steal and to manipulate America’s advancements for their own ends and gains.” Promises…

[ad_1] In the first debate since Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary became a two-person race, Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens repeatedly turned policy disagreements into a fight over campaign funding and outside spending.  The pair split over health care policy, with El-Sayed, a former public health official, promoting a single-payer, national health insurance program covering all Americans, and depicting Stevens as representing “politics as usual.”  Stevens, who has served in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District since 2019, described herself as a “workhorse” who has delivered tangible wins for Michigan. She pointed to her work on President Barack Obama’s 2009…

[ad_1] From D.C. Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas today in Beatty v. Trump: On May 29, 2026, the district court ordered, among other things, (1) the removal of President Trump’s name from the façade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and all other similar physical signage, (2) the deletion of his name as part of the title of the Center on the official website, and (3) the withdrawal of any trademark applications that included President Trump’s name as part of the Kennedy Center’s appellation. The court further ordered those changes to be…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump heaped praise on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Sharra is a former al-Qaeda commander who fought against the US during the Iraq War. “He’s done a really fantastic job as president. He’s unified the country in a very short period of time. I’d say like a year and a half, about a year and a half, and right from the beginning it was a real mess, very disjointed place, and he’s brought it together,” Trump told reporters at a press conference with Sharaa on Wednesday. “He’s a strong person. He’s a great leader. He’s respected by everybody,…

[ad_1] Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and representative government forever Shayne Coplan, now the world’s youngest “self-made” billionaire, is the public face of what purports to be the world’s largest crypto-powered prediction market – Polymarket. Coplan and his alleged arch-rival, Tarek Mansour of the competing prediction market platform Kalshi, recently buried the hatchet to create a new venture capital firm called 5c(c) Capital, a reference to the section of the Commodity Exchange Act which is currently used to regulate prediction markets.…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump said that the ceasefire installed by the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran is over.  “For me, I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum. You know what scum is? They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people,” Trump told reporters at the NATO summit on Wednesday. “And they’re vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over. There’s something wrong with them, they’re cuckoo.” Trump’s remarks followed Iran’s attack on multiple vessels in…