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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has endured a brutal week of reporting on his personal history and unsavory interactions with women — issues that have left many people wringing their hands over the state of the race. However, MS NOW's Chris Hayes, who interviewed Platner earlier in the week, noted that Maine voters on the street largely seem unfazed.

Part of the reason, he suggested, is that there is genuine disgust with longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins — despite their "reservations about his character."

President Donald Trump lashed out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday, claiming the Democrat had halted a renovation of golf courses at Joint Base Andrews and framing the move as an attack on the U.S. military.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Moore "has put a halt to all work" on a project to convert the base's two ageing courses into "World Class, Jack Nicklaus Designed Courses," plus nine additional holes he said would be adapted for wounded veterans.

The House passed a spending bill Thursday night that included $141 million in cuts to the WIC program, which provides fruit and vegetable assistance to women, infants, and children.

The narrow 213-210 vote would not have passed without support from four House Democrats: Donald Davis (D-NC), Adam Gray (D-CA), Vicente González (D-TX), and Marie Glusenkamp Pérez (D-WA), according to The New Republic. Three of the Democrats, Gray, González, and Pérez, are members of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition.

An influencer couple who shared a heartbreaking decision to terminate a pregnancy online has revealed they now keep a loaded gun at their bedside because of the death threats they have received.

According to TMZ, Jesse and Ashley Ridgway of New Jersey say that the hate has come thick and fast "since announcing they terminated a pregnancy because their unborn child had Down syndrome."

President Donald Trump has a reputation for bending Republicans to his will, but a political scientist said Friday there's a quiet trick Republicans use to kill his priorities — without ever casting a vote against him.

In a New York Times conversation, Good Politics/Bad Politics writer Jonathan Bernstein laid out the strategy political scientist Matthew Glassman calls "negative agenda setting." If Republicans simply never bring something to a vote, it vanishes, and no one has to go on record opposing the president.

It's billed as the hottest ticket in Washington — but the celebrities aren't biting, according to a new report.

President Donald Trump's $60 million birthday event, a UFC cage fight on the White House South Lawn set for June 14, has the capital's power players competing for seats, Vanity Fair reports. Donors, lobbyists, and members of Congress have flooded the White House with requests, the outlet reported, with ringside seats reportedly going to those willing to pay more than $1 million in sponsorships.

A Justice Department lawyer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit the Trump administration could demolish the Statue of Liberty before anyone could sue to stop it.

Judge Patricia Millett pressed the government's lawyer on the implications, asking if there would be legal recourse if the government moved too fast, reports ABC News.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a prominent ally of President Donald Trump, has been dogged throughout his campaign for governor of Alabama by claims that he secretly lives in Florida and may have even illegally voted there. So his campaign has released a series of records to prove his residency in Alabama.

However, according to Lagniappe, those documents weren't thoroughly redacted, exposing personal information about Tuberville's taxes and income not previously known to the public.

With California continuing to count the results in major races, Republicans continue to cling to second place in the gubernatorial primary and the mayor of Los Angeles, but the gap is narrowing as disproportionately Democratic late mail ballots continue to be processed, raising the possibility that Republicans could eventually slip to third and be locked out of one or both races.

The development has led to an explosion of conspiracy theories from MAGA activists on social media — but more strangely, reported Semafor's Max Tani, the prominent gambling platforms Kalshi and Polymarket appear to be sponsoring some of those conspiracy theory posts.