
Maine voters weigh Graham Platner scandals on election day: ‘It’s not my job to judge’
Oysterman and marine veteran favored to win Democratic primary amid a string of controversiesUS politics live – latest updatesVoters are headed to the polls on Tuesday for primary elections that include a crucial Senate race involving the scandal-haunted Graham Platner.In Maine, Platner is favored to win the Democratic primary after his main opponent, former governor Janet Mills, suspended her campaign. The incumbent senator, Susan Collins, remains safely at the top of the Republican ticket – just slightly behind newcomer Platner’s lead in polling. Continue reading...
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US midterm primaries 2026 live: results and updates as elections in Georgia and Oklahoma test Trump’s power
Voters have also been casting ballots in Alabama and Washington DC, where for the first time in over 10 years, the city will elect a new mayor in NovemberThe Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits, FBI investigations, and an executive order to limit voting by mail, moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discredited claims of fraud, which can intimidate election workers and voters in swing states that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Continue reading...
Kornacki: Voters in Georgia and Alabama set to weigh in on Trump-backed candidates
President Trump’s endorsement power is once again being put to the test in multiple Republican primaries. NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki outlines Tuesday’s key runoffs in Alabama and Georgia and the primary race in Washington, DC. NBC News Correspondent Priscilla Thompson talks to voters in Georgia.
Scottish World Cup fans drink Boston dry: ‘Tripled St. Patrick’s Day’
Scottish soccer fans emptied Boston's bars and liquor stores over the weekend after celebrating their teams World Cup victory in Beantown.
Live results: Oklahoma voters set to decide new governor
Voters in Oklahoma are weighing in on primaries in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Kevin Stitt (R). President Trump has endorsed Mike Mazzei, a former state senator and state budget secretary, on the GOP side. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) is also seeking the nod in the ruby red state. Polls close at…
Live results: DC voters pick next mayor in Democratic primary
Voters in Washington, D.C., are at the polls Tuesday to weigh in on the race to replace retiring Mayor Muriel Bowser (D). City Councilmember Janeese Lewis George, a Democratic socialist, led in polling ahead of the Democratic primary. Former City Council member-at-large Kenyan McDuffie (D) has been trailing in second place. There are no Republicans…
Onlookers befuddled by Lindsey Graham's head-spinning praise of Trump's Iran deal
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put a baffling spin on Trump's Iran War deal, but he didn't get off scot-free.Although details of Trump's Iran War deal remain murky, it's already being criticized for reportedly giving up a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Graham told reporters on Tuesday, however, what he believed the deal achieved."If this thing goes through, we've opened up the straits," the GOP senator said. "The war will be in a permanent ceasefire, and we'll try to get a nuclear deal with Iran."On X, commentators dogged Graham as they pointed out that these achievements were what was already in place before Trump started the war."We've achieved opening the Strait that was open before the war that Trump lost," wrote Ben Rhodes, a former Obama foreign policy advisor and political writer."The big achievement of the war, according to Lindsey Graham, is that things will hopefully go back to the way they were before the war," MeidasTouch, a political news network, piled on."Trump started the fighting and is responsible for the closing of the Strait," agreed Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and contributing editor for The Atlantic. "So he is giving Iran tons of money, draining $50 billion or more from taxpayers, depleting our vital stocks, bloodshed from our military, oil, helium, and fertilizer prices up, to return to status quo ante.""Not only were the straits open before Trump initiated combat operations, but the U.S. could have very likely prevented Iran from closing them & clearly was not able to/did not prioritize that part of mission," senior national security reporter Zachary Cohen wrote. "Now, Iran has demonstrated it can successfully close them."






