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Graham Platner's primary victory in Maine sets up a high-stakes contest between an insurgent progressive with political baggage and a battle-tested but vulnerable Republican senator.
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Graham Platner, a progressive oyster farmer, won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday. He is set to face Senator Susan Collins, a five-term Republican, in November.
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For days protesters have been clashing with law enforcement over conditions at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz explains how these complaints persist across the country, and takes a closer look at the problems documented at one facility in Louisiana.
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No candidate cleared 50 percent in the Democratic primary race to replace Representative Jared Golden, sending the race into ranked-choice voting.
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The president's top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
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The South Carolina congresswoman finished fifth in the state's GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district.
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Aaron Ford easily outpaced a Washoe County commissioner, Alexis Hill, for the nod to take on Gov. Joe Lombardo in November.
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President Trump vowed to retaliate for what he said was Iran's downing of an Apache helicopter. near the Strait of Hormuz. The pilot and gunner were rescued.
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The largely coastal district has voted overwhelmingly Republican in recent elections. Representative Nancy Mace ran unsuccessfully for governor instead of seeking re-election to the seat.
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Twenty G.O.P lawmakers broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in backing a bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act.
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Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette had gotten an endorsement from President Trump, but it was not enough to help her clinch a victory outright. She now faces Alan Wilson, the state attorney general, in a runoff on June 23.
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Randy Villegas will face the incumbent, David Valadao, a Republican who has survived numerous challenges in a competitive district.
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Proponents say the practice reduces partisanship, while critics say it is confusing and expensive.
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Mr. Platner, an oyster farmer running for a Senate seat on a progressive platform, has drawn a large following among Democrats in Maine. His campaign has also surfaced damaging reports about his personal history.
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Graham Platner has faced new scrutiny over his personal history, but his Democratic primary victory sets up a high-stakes race against Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.
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The vote gave final passage to Republicans' megabill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Trump's term, clearing it for his signature.
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The Chinese leader's long-awaited visit to Pyongyang aims to counter Russian influence.
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Representative Nancy Mace's run for governor created the opening in the coastal First Congressional District. Republicans are expected to hold it, but one Democrat has proved to be a prolific fund-raiser.
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The main super PAC tied to the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee released its first ads backing Ms. Stevens, a moderate congresswoman locked in a tight three-way primary.
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A mysterious group has spent $500,000 to elevate a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary race for a key House seat.
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Israel is continuing to carry out attacks on Lebanon amid ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran to end the war. Iran is maintaining its demand that Lebanon be included in a ceasefire deal. Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in Beirut, says President Trump's claims that he wants peace with Iran are "absurd" because the United States continues to support "Israel's aggression in southern Lebanon." She argues that "an angry phone call between Netanyahu and Donald Trump is ultimately meaningless" as long as Israel is granted "impunity and arms." Younes also talks about reporting she did for Drop Site News on the ethnic cleansing in Ain Arab, a village in southern Lebanon.
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Graham Platner is expected to win handily in the Democratic primary for Senate in Maine. The focus is shifting to how he might do in November.
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A measure to direct an end to U.S. engagement in Iran was adopted with a handful of Republicans in support, sending a signal of opposition to the president's handling of the war.
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The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, warning residents of 12 towns and villages, including some north of the Litani River — beyond its current zone of occupation — to leave their homes. Those warnings were followed by reports of airstrikes in the south.
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a fragile temporary ceasefire in mid-April that has since been extended, but fighting has continued at a lesser scale. More than 1 million Lebanese, nearly one-fifth of Lebanon's population, have been displaced.
"So this is dozens of villages that now no one can technically access. They're calling it a 'forward defensive zone,'" says Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in Beirut. "There's nothing defensive about it. It's an offensive operation, and they're using the word 'cleanse' to describe what they're doing there. They're just bulldozing homes."
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