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BLUE HILL, Maine — Controversial oyster farmer and Marine veteran Graham Platner easily won Maine’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night despite a string of scandals, including sporting a Nazi tattoo on his chest. Platner was projected the winner by the Associated Press at 9:23 pm ET, and jumped to an early lead with 73.3% of the vote with about a fifth of the ballots counted, beating Gov. Janet Mills, who stopped campaigning in April. In his victory speech, held in the rural town where he was born, Platner acknowledged he’s “far from perfect” but pledged to be a “senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator.”

DULUTH, Minn. (KQDS-TV) -- The US Department of Defense (DOD) has labeled Cirrus Design Corporation as a "Chinese Military Company." In a list released by the DOD, 188 companies were identified as "Chinese military companies operating directly or indirectly in the United States." Under section 805 of the 2024 Fiscal Year National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the DOD is prohibited to "Enter into, renew, or extend a contract for the procurement of goods, services, or technology" with these companies. According to the NDAA, this prohibition will take effect on June 30, 2026 An indirect procurement ban will follow on June 30, 2027. The United States Air Force Academy currently uses Cirrus SR-20

CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, according to a report. Paramount executives are said to have held preliminary discussions with several candidates who would come in and run the business-side operations next to Weiss while she continues to oversee editorial. The company is considering several big names, including current CNN CEO Mark Thompson, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde and former NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim, Axios reported. Ben Sherwood, currently CEO of Daily Beast, and former CBS News president David Rhodes are also under consideration, according to the report.

During an appearance on the Unity Over Division podcast, U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D) suggested it was “common sense” to mandate how guns are stored in homes and to ban private sales. Talarico said, “I am a believer in the Second Amendment. I don’t pick and choose between the Bill of Rights, I believe in the Second Amendment just as much as I believe in the first.” He went on to state his conviction that you need to get a permit to exercise the First Amendment right to assemble, then outlined gun controls that he described as “common sense.” Talarico said, “We’ve got to make sure

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is reportedly being prepared to run for president in 2028 by former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, who also worked with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra on their respective campaigns. Sources familiar with the matter told Politico’s Playbook this week that Khanna has caught the attention of Ron Klain, an attorney who was an appointee of former President Barack Obama as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator. Klain, who was named Biden’s chief of staff after working as a senior adviser on his 2020 campaign, is now a chief legal officer at Airbnb

Bedlam broke out in Belfast on Tuesday evening as protests turned violent and rioters set fires to vehicles and homes in the wake of an apparent beheading attempt allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese migrant. Horrific footage of the stabbing attack on Monday evening, in which a man was seen repeatedly stabbing another man’s neck, inflamed tensions in Northern Ireland, which had previously been the site of anti-mass migration. On Tuesday morning, police announced that they had arrested a man in his 30s from Sudan who had been granted leave to remain status by the UK Home Office after being granted in 2023, after having travelled through Paris and Dublin,

We reported earlier Tuesday on the moving testimony from Dr. Alveda King — MLK Jr.’s niece — at a House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nonprofit civil‑rights organization that allegedly has been secretly funding… wait for it… racist causes and groups. While Ms. King’s vision was exactly the one we should be looking at to bridge divides in this country, testimony from other witnesses wasn’t as inspiring. Watch Interim SPLC President and CEO Bryan K. Fair squirm and sweat as Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) rapidly fires questions at him, very few of which Fair could or would answer. If you want

WASHINGTON — After weeks of setbacks and delays, the Republican-controlled House on Tuesday narrowly passed a roughly $70 billion package to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the end of President Donald Trump’s term. The vote was 214-212, with Rep. Kevin Kiley, a California independent who caucuses with Republicans, joining all Democrats in voting no. The package, dubbed the Secure America Act, cleared the Senate last week and now heads to the president’s desk for his expected signature. The successful House vote ends months of drama and partisan bickering over immigration enforcement funding. In February, Senate Democrats voted to shut down the Department of Homeland Security after the fatal shootings

As we reported earlier, President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. Army Apache helicopter that went down over the Strait of Hormuz had been shot down. The two-person crew was rescued, and Trump promised a response. "I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter." According to two senior US officials, Iranian drones were responsible. Now, consequences are underway,

The madman accused of slaughtering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in North Carolina screamed at the judge on Tuesday as he was ruled not fit to stand trial for a second time. Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, ranted about having “material in his body” and experiencing a “body emergency” during the brief hearing at the federal courthouse in Charlotte, Queen City News reported. He also shouted about wanting to press charges against the FBI and asked the judge whether he had reviewed his evaluation and a letter from his mother, the outlet reported.

NASA on Tuesday revealed the four-man crew of the Artemis III lunar program, tentatively set for sometime in 2027, and there's so much more riding on this mission than you might suspect. Commanding the crew is retired Marine Corps flyer (and combat veteran) Col. Randy “Komrade” Bresnik, who, according to NASA, "has logged more than 7,000 hours in 95 types of aircraft/rotorcraft/gliders and an additional 3,600 hours in spacecraft." Bresnik's nickname comes from taking Russian in high school, not because he's a Commie or anything. But his language skills certainly came in handy aboard the ISS.

Iran had shot down a U.S. military helicopter while it was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz, President Dondald Trump said on Tuesday, adding that the U.S. would “respond to this attack.” “The Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” he said in a Truth Social post, adding that he had been briefed by the military on the situation. “There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” he said. “Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.” Earlier Central Command said two crew members were rescued by an unmanned boat — a first for American forces —