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Graham Platner just dropped out. Here’s who could replace him.

Graham Platner just dropped out of Maine’s Senate race. Some Democrats have already said they want to replace him.A POLITICO report of a new sexual allegation against Platner on Monday set off a sc...

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Another Fatal ICE Shooting

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction contractor and father of three, was a “man of routine,” according to his sons. He woke up at 5 a.m. every day, ate a big breakfast prepared by his...

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Platner Just Made Things Harder for Democrats

The Nazi tattoo wasn’t bad enough to force Graham Platner to abandon his Senate bid, his defenders argued earlier this year. Any young Marine, under the powerful influence of alcohol and immaturity...

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Planned Parenthood to target GOP with $47 million midterm blitz

Planned Parenthood is pumping more than $47 million into the midterms as it looks to pick off Republicans who cut off funding to the abortion provider last year.The near-record investment from Plan...

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‘This is just the beginning’: 1 year in, there's no end in sight for Congress’ Epstein probe

The House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation will hit the one-year mark later this month, and the saga isn’t ending anytime soon.No matter which party ends up in control in the nex...

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1 year in, ICE’s mass detention policy is on the ropes

Federal judges have spent a full year overwhelmingly rejecting ICE’s effort to lock up people the Trump administration is seeking to deport — finding a combination of illegality, unconstitutionalit...

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The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.

The Trump administration has reconstituted a governmentwide program that tracks how climate change is transforming the country, after having gutted it last year as part of a purge of programs that ...

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America needs a real AI economic plan — before the crisis hits

President Donald Trump signs the H.R. 748, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 27, 2020. ...

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Platner’s advisers urged him to go out with ‘gratitude.’ He led with grievance.

Graham Platner went down swinging — even as some of his political confidants urged him not to.Several of the embattled Maine Democrat’s closest advisers pleaded with him Wednesday to strike a “conc...

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‘It’s over’: Oil markets back on edge after US and Iran shred ceasefire

Oil prices vaulted higher on Wednesday, rebounding after more than a month of decline as President Donald Trump declared that the ceasefire with Iran was “over,” keeping the global energy markets o...

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US officials compiling 'menu' of Spanish goods, as Trump weighs embargo

The Trump administration is preparing a list of Spanish goods to potentially embargo, after President Donald Trump ordered officials to cut off trade with the European nation Thursday morning.The T...

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Europe prepares to go it alone as Trump returns to war in Iran

ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump’s declaration at the NATO summit that the U.S. had returned to war with Iran didn’t lead to the usual gasping allies or perplexed officials.If anything, it c...

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‘Fire with fire’: How America First Legal plans to fight Democrats

The American Civil Liberties Union has been a thorn in President Donald Trump’s side for years. The civil liberties group took legal action over 430 times in his first administration, challenging h...

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Trump yelled at NATO leaders in public. In private, it was a different story.

President Donald Trump spent his first hours at the NATO summitpublicly bashingthe alliance and reciting a list of grievances that had allies fearing the worst.Then he went behind closed doors and ...

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Trump warns fresh attacks on Iran could come Wednesday night

ANKARA, Turkey — The U.S. plans to bomb Iran again as soon as Wednesday night and could attempt to take Kharg Island, said President Donald Trump earlier in the day at the close of the annual NATO ...

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Socialist Francesca Hong on Her Wisconsin Insurgency

Wisconsin has long served as a proving ground for American politics. It gave rise to Progressive Era reforms and Milwaukee’s socialist tradition, but it also became a laboratory for the Right under...

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Is the Left Driving Women Away?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the recent allegations toward Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platne...

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Trump denies disaster aid for 4 Democratic-led states

President Donald Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states in a move that is raising new questions about whether he's injecting political motivations into emergency management decisio...

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Democratic Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Is Running Against Both Parties

El-Sayed speaks at a campaign event at Mumford High School in Detroit on May 3 —Sarah Rice—Getty ImagesAbdul El-Sayed looks like he would rather be anywhere else.The Michigan Senate candidate makes...

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Summer fiction: Six captivating beach reads

‘Villa Coco’ by Andrew Sean GreerPersonal style that appears effortless often requires much invisible work, said Jacob Brogan in The Atlantic. “I thought about thi...

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Platner campaign quietly polls potential replacements as pressure mounts

Democratic Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner’s team quietly fielded a poll Tuesday gauging the strength of people who could replace him on the ballot, as pressure mounts for him to drop out of th...

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