Cory Booker has ‘concerns’ with Graham Platner’s Senate bid after leaked texts

US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has ‘questions to answer’ A high-profile Democrat has expressed concerns with party candidate Graham Platner’s Maine US Senate campaign amid revelations that Platner reportedly sent a number of sexually explicit messages to other women while married. “Yes, I have concerns,” … Read more

Trump’s interior secretary dismisses calls to identify donors for ‘nonpartisan’ concert series

Doug Burgum complains some musicians ‘segmented their audiences’ after artists back out of 250th anniversary event The Trump administration’s interior secretary, Doug Burgum, complained on Sunday that some musicians “seem to have segmented their audiences” after artists bailed on participating in a concert series planned for the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence. In the … Read more

Why NATO’s defense spending imbalance lasted for decades

This is part five of a series examining the challenges confronting the NATO alliance. For more than three decades, the U.S. carried the largest share of NATO’s military burden while many European allies spent far less on defense than Washington wanted. The imbalance survived the Cold War, multiple U.S. administrations and repeated debates over burden … Read more

Graham Platner’s wife campaign video statement responding to infidelity allegations widely panned by critics

Graham Platner’s wife Amy Gertner came out to defend her husband’s Senate campaign Saturday, but X reactions to the five-minute video are rebuking it as damage control that did not dispute recent allegations against the Maine Democrat. “So it makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of … Read more

Graham Platner’s wife ‘angry’ her disclosures of his extramarital sexting were made public

The wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said she is “really angry” and “disappointed” about reports that she had told her husband’s campaign last year that he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women.“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets … Read more