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Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said she has been told there are more allegations about Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner coming after a woman accused him of sexual assault. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Dingell said, “Yes I do. I’m one of the people that was disturbed by the reports a couple of months ago.” Dingell said, “I’m going to not give you names because the people that I have a great deal of respect for as well, but they have said to me, you were right, your gut was…

President Trump said during the bloc’s summit in Türkiye that Washington should control the Danish island NATO would help Denmark protect Greenland from any attack, including hypothetically from the US, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said.The issue of Greenland came up on the sidelines of a NATO leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye, after US President Donald Trump confirmed that he still wants Washington to control the Danish autonomous territory. He said the dispute was one of the reasons his relationship with the bloc had deteriorated.“That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Trump told reporters during a…

A joint international law enforcement operation between the United States, Canada, and Europe led to the arrest of 24 individuals linked to three India-based transnational crime groups, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. Among the defendants charged on Tuesday notably stands 33 year-old Lawrence Bishnoi, an imprisoned gang boss leader who runs his crime syndicate from a jail in India. Bishnoi is one of the men linked to the 2023 assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada — an incident that caused a significant diplomatic impasse between India and Canada at the time. The Justice Department detailed that…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta could face penalties totaling $1.4 trillion if four states prevail in their lawsuit alleging the social media giant fueled a teen mental health crisis, according to company filings that describe the figure as outlandish and unprecedented. The penalty would nearly equal the entire market value of the company, currently just above $1.5 trillion. The New York Post reports that Meta has disclosed that it faces potential penalties of $1.4 trillion in a lawsuit brought by state attorneys general over allegations the company contributed to a teen mental health crisis. The massive sum, which approaches the company’s entire market…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Bloomberg White House Correspondent Jeff Mason said that “Democrats, for a long time, have painted themselves as the party that doesn’t accept some of the things that they were willing to tolerate with Graham Platner. And that is, in part, because he was just doing so well,” also because some “were very happy to see a left-leaning progressive candidate doing so well.” After viewing a montage of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) defending Platner in the past, Mason said, “Fair to…

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is publicly asking Sen. Mitch McConnell to provide an update on his health amid a secretive weekslong hospitalization. Beshear sent a letter to McConnell Wednesday, saying that Kentuckians had grown “increasingly concerned” since the former Senate Republican leader was hospitalized in mid-June about both his health and “ability to hold office.” “As governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health,” Beshear wrote to McConnell. “As public officeholders, we have made a commitment to our constituents to do our best to represent them and to always be transparent. I believe…

Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders has accused the Dutch police and government of being “cowards” in the face of unrest from marauding Moroccan football fans. Chaotic scenes broke out on the streets of Amsterdam and The Hague again over the weekend after Morocco defeated Canada over 5,000 miles away in Texas. Large groups of young Moroccan heritage males took to the streets, clashing with police, throwing fireworks at people, and driving recklessly, including in areas with young children. However, despite the unrest, police took little action, apparently concerned that they could not handle the hordes of young male…

As Republicans battle over passing the President Trump-supported SAVE America Act ahead of midterm elections, a case out of Alabama points to the reality of noncitizens voting in U.S. elections. The SAVE America Act, or the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, has been passed three times in the House but has been hamstrung in the Senate, with some lawmakers saying they are being “held hostage [by] the inaction” of the upper chamber. The Save America Act would fight election fraud by requiring individuals to provide proof of U.S. citizenship while registering to vote in federal elections, which could include a birth certificate…

Sam Liccardo said he “groaned excessively” when the U.S. national team’s Folarin Balogun was given a red card. Yet the Silicon Valley representative objected after President Donald Trump pressed FIFA to review the play at issue, before the world soccer organization suspended the penalty and allowed the U.S.’ lead scorer to play in today’s knockout round match against Belgium. “We can’t win this way,” Liccardo, a Democrat, wrote on social media. “I won’t cheer FIFA’s capitulation to power.” Few other American politicians have expressed a similar sentiment, perhaps wary that they’ll be viewed as rooting against their own country’s success.…

The presidential chief-of-staff says he opposes Kiev’s “historical lies” amid an escalating row over Nazi collaborators Ukraine’s state-backed Mirotvorets database of alleged “enemies of the state” has blacklisted Polish presidential chief-of-staff Zbigniew Bogucki, calling him an “anti-Ukrainian propagandist.” Bogucki responded by declaring himself an enemy of “Banderism” and Kiev’s “historical lies.”Tensions between Warsaw and Kiev deepened in May after Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky granted an elite commando unit an honorific referencing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – a WWII-era ultranationalist militia which cooperated with Nazi Germany and took part in ethnic cleansings targeting thousands of Poles, Jews, and Russians in…