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One of Graham Platner’s top political advisers said he and others suggested Platner drop out of the Maine Senate race when they “became aware of the rape allegations.” “As soon as the team became aware of the rape allegations against Graham Platner we advised he suspend his candidacy, and in the following days worked to wind down the campaign,” Democratic strategist Morris Katz wrote on X on Thursday. “Like so many of his supporters, I’m deeply disappointed.” The social media post is Katz’s first public comment since POLITICO’s report Monday that a woman said Platner forced her to have sex…
America’s second-largest liquefied natural gas exporter, Venture Global, says its average liquefaction fee has jumped 69% US liquefied natural gas exporters are cashing in on the Iran war as the supplies have been disrupted and prices driven higher, a new regulatory filing shows. Venture Global, the second-largest US LNG supplier, reported a 69% jump in its average liquefaction fee in the second quarter, according to a filing posted on Wednesday. The Middle East conflict, triggered by the US-Israeli bombing campaign on Iran in late February, has choked off supplies from Qatar, which accounts for roughly a fifth of global LNG…
The US president warned that he “may be gone” as a result of a potential assassination attempt US President Donald Trump has warned he could be assassinated by Iran, claiming that Tehran considers him its “number one target.” His comments came as a tentative ceasefire between Washington and Tehran collapsed, with fighting flaring up anew around the Strait of Hormuz.Trump made the remarks at a NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday, after the US struck dozens of Iranian targets in retaliation for alleged attacks on oil tankers in the strait. While the US military accused Tehran of “unwarranted aggression,” Iranian…
Steadily lowering my social credit score I sometimes have people ask me, “So what are you doing to help?” Sure, I’m full of radical takes and contrarian views, but how does that change anything? Have I led any marches? Have I even participated in any marches? Run for Congress? Run for school board? But I certainly shoot my mouth and pen off about everything. I would counter with the fact I am doing something. Really all any average person can do at this point. I call out the corruption, and the tyranny, and I don’t pull any punches. I name names. More recently, I…
(AP) — Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983, and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. Tyler died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. She had been placed in an induced coma for a period but was reportedly improving last…
Americans most oppose migration because of its damaging impact on housing and jobs for Americans, says a new Gallup poll. The June 1-5 survey of Americans showed that “Americans are more likely to see negative than positive effects on job opportunities for U.S.-born workers (33% vs. 27%, respectively) and housing availability and costs (40% vs. 23%).” In contrast, and aided by the lopsidedly pro-migration views shared by roughly 90 percent of Democrats, the Gallup poll also reported majority support for the use of migrants as cheap labor or supposedly high-skilled migrants: Majorities say legal immigration has a very or somewhat…
Actor Patrick Dempsey, famous for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, announced he has no plans to run for political office, preferring to help people through his charity work. In an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald, Dempsey, a native of Maine, said scores of his fellow Mainers have been approaching him lately asking if he would run for United States Senate, especially now that Democrat candidate Graham Platner’s campaign has been dogged by a series of sexual assault allegations. While Dempsey appreciates the people’s confidence in him, he ultimately believes that Mainers would be better served…
Ankara used the summit to prove it can deliver what others cannot: access, leverage, and channels to Trump, Damascus and Moscow When NATO’s 36th summit opened at the Bestepe Presidential Complex on July 7, the official agenda read like every other alliance gathering of the past few years: defense spending targets, support for Ukraine, industrial capacity, adaptation to new threats. But for the host nation, the meeting was never only about the communiqué. It was a stage, and Türkiye had spent months building the set.The guest list alone signaled the stakes. Alongside the leaders of all 32 member states, Ankara…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) said that she doesn’t know “how anybody can negotiate in good faith with President Trump because he doesn’t stay consistent from one moment to the other, let alone one week to the other.” Houlahan began by stating that “nobody should be surprised at the actions of the Iranians. They are not good actors.” Later, she said, “President Trump also seems to have a very deliberate strategy of saying positive things one day and then negative things the next day. And you’re seeing that go on, not only over time,…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded to President Donald Trump saying that earlier allegations against Graham Platner were ignored by saying that Trump “has no right to weigh in on this race, and we will defeat him in November.” Bellows said, “I think we need to take a beat and remember that this is about Jenny Racicot and these serious allegations of sexual assault. Survivors of sexual assault need to be heard and respected, and that is why Graham Platner must withdraw.” Host Erin Burnett then said, “President Trump was just asked, Secretary,…