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Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner’s wife admitted to his campaign that he had sent sexually explicit texts to women early in their marriage, according to multiple reports. “People familiar with the matter” told the Wall Street Journal that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, reportedly shared with an aide in August that she had found the sexually explicit messages “early in their marriage in the spring of 2025.” Gertner’s admission to sending the messages came as “some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate.” The aides’ opposition research on Platner came as “the campaign had been preparing for a…

Tehran has also reportedly ordered the Strait of Hormuz to be blocked over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon Iran has halted negotiations with the US over the ongoing Israeli offensive in Lebanon, moving to block maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim news agency has reported, citing sources.Israel has intensified its bombing campaign in Lebanon in recent days, against what it describes as sites used by the Hezbollah militant group. The Israeli military has pushed deeper into the country’s south, seizing Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress and a key vantage point in the region.While Iran made an…

UNITED STATES – APRIL 28: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. The Education Department is launching new repayment plans for student loans this July. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesThe Education Department is preparing to launch two new tiered repayment plan options for federal student loans. The new programs, which are expected to debut on July 1, will be much different from any other current student loan repayment plan in several key ways, and they will also operate very differently from…

Rayann El Houli, part of the “ISIS Brides” group of Australian women, renounced the Islamic State and “violent jihad” her lawyer claimed during a Monday court appearance. El Houli, a 34 year-old mother of four children, is one of the Australian “ISIS Brides” women that moved to Syria so they could marry Islamic State fighters before the collapse of the so-called ISIS “caliphate” in 2019. She reportedly returned to Australia with her sister in September. She was arrested months later on Thursday and formally charged with travelling to a declared conflict zone and joining the Islamic State terrorist organization. Both offences carry maximum…

Actor Mark Ruffalo has endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer in California’s governor race, even though the movie star regularly rails against billionaires. The Disney-Marvel star delivered his endorsement of Steyer in an Instagram post on Thursday. “Tom has spent the last two decades working to stop climate change. Becerra is bought and paid for by Big Oil and other corporations that have spent nearly $50 million to elect him,” Ruffalo declared. Though Ruffalo admitted that he is no “fan of billionaires,” adding that he sees “no reason for people to have that kind of wealth,” he sidestepped that issue by attempting…

Hard-left Turkish-American influencers Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker have been banned from entering the United Kingdom ahead of planned public appearances after the government ruled their presence in the country would not be “conducive to the public good”. The Young Turks broadcaster Cenk Uygur and his nephew, the live streamer Hasan Piker, were informed that their electronic travel authorisation (ETA) visa-free travel permission to come to the United Kingdom had been revoked just hours before flying to Britain, they said. The men had been booked to appear at speaking events in Britain, including the ‘Techno-Feudalism is Here. Who are the Lords?’ panel at…

A manhunt is underway for a killer following a Friday night fatal shooting of Carroll County, Virginia, sheriff’s deputy Logan Utt. WSLS reported that deputies were dispatched to the home of Michael Timothy Puckett around 9:30 p.m. for a welfare check. Upon arriving, the deputies came under fire and Utt was fatally wounded. Puckett was able to flee the scene and now “a massive multi-agency manhunt is underway across Carroll County,” according to WTVR. The law enforcement offices/agencies involved in the manhunt include the ATF, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and the Virginia State Police. Puckett…

Welcome back to the bad place. After leaving town late last month for a one-week recess, House and Senate GOP leaders are returning to a slew of familiar problems threatening to leave their midterm-year agenda stalled in perennial limbo. Republicans’ party-line immigration enforcement bill is stuck because of President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and there’s a mini-rebellion brewing over an Iran war powers resolution that, if adopted, would be politically embarrassing for the president (more on that below). That’s to say nothing of the full-time task of managing internal GOP frustrations after a trio of incumbents fell to…

A majority of Italians are in favor of using nuclear power plants to offset growing utility bills, a study published by the Italian market research firm Only Numbers found. Nuclear power has long since been described as a “taboo” subject in Italy, a country that phased away its nuclear power plants decade ago. International conflicts and unstable markets have resulted in rising energy costs for Italy. The ongoing international situation has left Italy at a complex crossroads, leading to renewed debates on the merits of nuclear power as a way to counter the energy cost crisis and dependence of other…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said he would work with anyone who wanted to fight against President Donald Trump when asked about Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who’s embroiled in controversy amid allegations of adulterous behavior. Host Dana Bash said, “I want to ask you about the Senate race in Maine and The Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporting that last August, Democrat Grand Platinum’s wife told his campaign about sexual text messages she had found between her husband and other women early in their marriage, and they were married in 2023. …