Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner formally withdraws from race
The Maine Secretary of State's office confirmed Platner's withdrawal and will have until July 27 to name a replacement.
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Palm Beach officially changes name of its airport in honor of Trump, his support in Florida
Replacing Graham Platner: US Senate replacement options split over Israel policy
Rahm Emanuel to 'Post': ‘I told Mamdani river to the sea means destroying the Jewish people’
Trump says acting spy chief can declassify 2020 election records
'Bill's there, just, you know, for maybe a month or two months or something,' Trump told reporters as he departed Joint Base Andrews for an event in North Dakota.
Harris courting Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in effort to win 2028 support - report
According to an Axios report, Harris may be trying to repair and strengthen her relationships with left-wing members of her party in order to lay the groundwork for a 2028 presidential run.
Trump reports over $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures
Reuters recently estimated the Trump family has made at least $2.3 billion from crypto-related projects since Trump returned to the White House in 2025.
Sanders-endorsed anti-Israel candidate Melat Kiros wins Democratic Colorado congressional primary
Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old former attorney, drew criticism after calling Hamas’s October 7 massacre “inevitable” and declining to refer to the June 2025 Boulder firebombing as antisemitic.
Congress blocks vote on restricting military funding to Israel after Democratic Party debate
Rep. Ro Khanna, co-sponsor of the bill, announced on X/Twitter that Congress had blocked the vote, despite previous reports that the House Rules Committee had marked the amendment as “Made in Order.”
SCOTUS upholds state bans on transgender sports participation, paving way for further restrictions
The court decided 9-0 that the state laws do not violate the Title IX civil rights statute that bars discrimination in education "on the basis of sex."
No-bid White House contract awarded for ballroom construction to tune of $500 b.
US President Donald Trump was directly involved in negotiating some costs for the ballroom, A Washington Post report said.
US Supreme Court endorses grace periods for mail-in ballots
The justices in a 5-4 ruling overturned a lower court's decision that had deemed a Mississippi law inconsistent with US statutes that set the timing of federal elections.
Supreme Court rejects Alan Dershowitz appeal to revive defamation lawsuit against CNN
Dershowitz had urged the justices to roll back protections against defamation claims that the Supreme Court established in its landmark 1964 ruling in a case called New York Times v. Sullivan.
US Supreme Court declines to hear Trump's bid to overturn $5m. E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse ruling
The justices turned away Trump's appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump's arguments the trial was unfair because the judge permitted evidence of past misconduct.
