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Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) suspended his campaign on Wednesday after scores of Democrats called him to step down due to sexual assault allegations. Platner announced the suspension of his campaign in a video released to social media on Wednesday, denying the allegations against him while deflecting blame onto the establishment. “My name might be on the ballot right now, but that ballot line belongs to the people of Maine,” he captioned the video on X. “As many of you know, over the past couple days, I have faced some very serious allegations,” he began in the video.…
Mexico’s top diplomat, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, announced a series of legal actions against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private migrant detention centers in response to the deaths of migrants in custody, as well as during raids. The announcement comes just one day after, as Breitbart Texas reported, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened legal action following this week’s shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. In that case, federal agents shot at Salgado after he allegedly used his vehicle to ram a police vehicle and then tried to run over an ICE agent during an operation to apprehend him. Sheinbaum…
Radical leftist Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said race played a major role in her Democrat primary loss to Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico (D). Crockett argued that racism, not politics, was the deciding factor in her Democrat primary loss to James Talarico. “The reality is that there was a lot of races, not a lot, it was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is, right? But we live in America as y’all are celebrating 250, okay? We know what this country is,” Crockett said. Crockett rejected criticism that she should have spent more time campaigning alongside Talarico.…
Sources close to the Lebanese presidency told The National on Thursday that Lebanon has accepted an American invitation for direct talks with Israel, to be held in Rome next week. One of the sources told The National that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun initially rejected the invitation because he wanted the talks to be held in Washington, where Israel and Lebanon held historic meetings last month. “It seems an understanding between the U.S. and the Lebanese delegation was reached, and it worked out,” the source said. In this photo released by the Lebanese Presidency press office, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun speaks…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) said that with earlier accusations against then-Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, “a lot of people were deeply conflicted about this idea that Graham Platner was somebody who talked about progressive politics, who was talking about the gap between the rich and the poor, the real challenges that are going on in Washington right now, and they felt moved by that. And I think many people were conflicted by saying, yeah, I don’t like what’s going on in his background, but was it because of PTSD? There were all kinds…
In the halls of Congress, Sen. John Kennedy has long been known as the master of the excruciatingly folksy one-liner. His profile off Capitol Hill, however, has recently exploded — thanks to an increasing tempo of Fox News hits, a bestselling book and a growing TikTok following. The 74-year-old Louisianan is putting his burgeoning notoriety to work for his Senate Republican colleagues, criss-crossing the country for a series of surprisingly successful events where he’s dropping his trademark bons mots, fielding questions about a future presidential bid and discussing “Margaret” — the exercise machine sitting in his carport that is named…
Super Typhoon Bavi intensified over the Pacific on Thursday and is bearing down on Taiwan and southern China, packing several feet of rain and winds of up to 124 miles per hour. Current forecasts have the storm brushing Taiwan and making landfall in China’s province of Fujian on Saturday night. The massive storm, currently over 620 miles wide, is poised to hit China almost exactly a week after Tropical Storm Maysak, which dumped a huge amount of rain on Hengzhou province and has reportedly caused 39 deaths from flooding. If Bavi follows Thursday’s projections and blows through northern Taiwan, it…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Moment,” host Katy Tur said that the explanation given by then-Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner for his Nazi tattoo was “not very believable” but Democrats “overlooked” that and his other issues. Tur said, “The Democratic Party, in searching for somebody that fit the bill of someone who could relate to and appeal to a broader set of voters that had been lost to Donald Trump, they found Graham Platner. And, yeah, he had a lot of warts, a lot of warts, and they overlooked them. This one is clearly a bridge too…
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that she thinks the Iran war needs to end and we have to go back to negotiations, and “a follow-up to the Iranian strikes against our allies and against shipping in the Strait is an important response from the United States, and, hopefully, that will encourage the Iranians that it’s time now to sit down at the table and negotiate.” Shaheen said it’s unclear what President Donald Trump’s intentions are, and “The fact is, this is a war that he never should have undertaken. None of the goals…
Six people have been charged for their alleged participation in a violent Fourth of July block party in North Charleston, South Carolina, that erupted into gunfire and assault on police officers. The violent incident involved a machine gun and a spear, resulting in charges against six people, including two adults and four juveniles. “The juveniles face charges ranging from third-degree assault by mob, assault on a police officer while resisting arrest, resisting arrest, possession of a machine gun and breach of peace,” noted Fox News. “Authorities also arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Mekhi Sincere Campbell, of North Charleston, who is charged with possession of…