Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said in a video statement he was suspending his campaign, taking aim at the Democratic establishment while clearing the way for the party to select a new candidate in November’s midterm elections. Platner’s decision comes after a woman told CNN and Politico he raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship – an allegation Platner denies.
Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said in a video statement he was suspending his campaign, taking aim at the Democratic establishment while clearing the way for the party to select a new candidate in November’s midterm elections. Platner’s decision comes after a woman told CNN and Politico he raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship – an allegation Platner denies.
President Donald Trump’s claim that China has waged a campaign of interference in US elections threatens to upset a fragile stability between the two powers ahead of an expected visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the US in September. CNN’s Simone McCarthy reports.
Karolina Rojas -- the partner of Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero -- who was fatally shot by ICE law enforcement on Monday, remembered her partner as a "responsible" man, "devoted" to his family. The couple have a three-year-old daughter.
President Donald Trump in a primetime speech on Thursday alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, though declassified documents his administration released largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to say whether charges would be filed related to President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday night when asked about it by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
During an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. John Fetterman bluntly warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it adopts an anti-Israel policy — one of his most direct threats yet amid the first-term Pennsylvanian’s intensifying battle with progressives over the direction of their party.
President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez, who’s under investigation for potential insider trading, has been put on administrative leave “without pay,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
Former Department of Justice Lawyer Elizabeth Oyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee that two days after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired her for refusing to restore firearm rights for a convicted domestic abuser and friend of President Trump. Oyer says she was pressured to go along with it, but she refused and was fired from her job.
