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Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) has dropped out of the U.S. Senate race, reported Punchbowl News reporter Max Cohen on X. Mills leaving the race paves an easier path for Graham Platner to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources,” Mills said in a statement released Thursday. “That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.”Polls weren't great for Mills.

President Donald Trump was dealt a bruising reality check this week, according to the Washington Post, as a new survey found striking evidence that voters are no longer being duped by his bravado, signaling a "huge shift in politics."On Thursday, the Post published a report sharing the findings of a joint poll it conducted alongside ABC News and Ipsos, concerning the popularity of Trump's various vanity pet projects and rebranding efforts. The results, especially as they pertained to his much-discussed

The Justice Department Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) are both investigating whether Attorney General Pam Bondi violated the law over the investigation files for trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. It's something that one former prosecutor says she must answer for, even though she's no longer in office. Congress passed a law mandating that all information be released and put into a searchable database, with the names of victims redacted. The DOJ instead redacted whole pages of information. Congress wants answers, not more Bondi e

Members of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration drew a great deal of mockery when, during a Cabinet meeting in September 2025, they lavished him with fawning praise — which, MAGA critics argued, was cultish in a way that resembled communist North Korea. The officials took turns praising Trump, from Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to then-Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Trump, critics argue, is notoriously thin-skinned and requires nonstop praise. But that need for adulation and "constant affirmation," according to Salon's Chauncey DeVega, can make the president vulnerable to

A former federal prosecutor is warning that President Donald Trump's latest revenge plot is already going off the rails. University of Michigan School of Law Professor Barb McQuade zeroed in on a specific piece of the Justice Department's case against former FBI Director James Comey: how incredibly long it took to "investigate." "I know Todd Blanche and Kash Patel said that they’ve been investigating the case, but my gosh, they had the post in May and they interviewed Comey the next day," McQuade told The New Republic's Greg Sargent for the morning podcast. "I don’t know w

President Donald Trump has once again latched onto a demand that is poised to turn into a major liability for himself and the GOP, and according to The Hill, Democrats are ready to pounce and use it to tank the party's midterms affordability messaging.Since the latest assassination attempt against him at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend, Trump has renewed the push for his lavish and expensive White House ballroom, claiming that it is necessary to provide better security for him at future events. Nume

After launching military strikes Iran in late February, U.S. President Donald Trump expected the United States' European allies to help him militarily. Instead, leaders in Spain and other European countries voiced their opposition to the war; Trump responded by angrily berating them and threatened to withdraw the U.S. altogether from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway crucial to the flow of oil in the Middle East, is causing gas prices to soar in the U.S. and other countries. Now, according to the Daily

The harsh "reality" of President Donald Trump's war with Iran has exposed "the vulnerabilities" that have been growing within the U.S. military for the whole world to see, according to a new piece from the New York Times Editorial Board.In the piece, published Thursday morning, the board observed that, "on paper," the U.S. military going to war in Iran should have resulted in an easy victory, given the substantial mismatch at play. While that expectation was largely met during the early days of the campaign, now, things are looking much different and much more dire

“Jim Acosta Show” host Jim Acosta says Kid Rock addressing the Pentagon like someone with military expertise makes clear that we are living in a movie, and that movie is “Idiocracy.”“Over a mind-numbing span of approximately the last 48 hours, American brains have been assaulted with an absurd amount of Trumpian stupidity,” said Acosta. “… Yes, that is Kid Rock addressing the troops at the Pentagon this week. It is tempting to think photos, like [that] are AI generated. But no. Your intrepid reporter checked. And that happened. Apparently, the Trump administration’s s

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion, roughly two-thirds of the agency’s annual budget. Yet because there is a conflict of interest in a sitting president trying to pocket money from the government he controls, a judge presiding over the case has caused it to hit a snag.Explaining that there is no precedent for Trump’s request, on Wednesday US District Judge Kathleen M. Williams appointed three law firms to serve as friends of the court and advise whether her court even has jurisdiction over the case. The lawyers in question include John Glee