Maine’s marquee U.S. Senate race just got its debate schedule, and the fireworks are already starting early. Democratic nominee Troy Jackson announced Friday that he’s agreed to four televised debates against Republican Sen. Susan Collins, with the matchups set to run within a two-week window in October. The final debate is scheduled for Oct. 15, […]
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley is fighting to keep his job against a Democratic Socialist challenger in Wednesday’s primary, a race that has drawn national attention for its echoes of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City last year. State Rep. David Morales, 27, has built his campaign around rent stabilization, increased public transit funding, and […]
Senator Ed Markey didn’t just survive Tuesday’s primary; he ran away with it. The four-term senator crushed Rep. Seth Moulton in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, pulling in roughly 65 percent of the vote with just over half of ballots counted when the Associated Press called the race. Moulton, 47, had staked his entire campaign on […]
Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents pulled more than 2,100 people off New York streets in a monthlong operation, as Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani of endangering public safety with sanctuary policies. Secretary Mullin announced Tuesday that Operation Rotten Apple resulted in 2,197 arrests across New York City, […]
Connecticut is becoming the latest battleground in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Nearly 100 people have reportedly been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the state this week, with the largest concentration of arrests taking place in Danbury, according to the immigration rights group Danbury Unites for Immigrants. ICE has not confirmed the […]
President Donald Trump is continuing his pressure campaign against Canada, and this time he’s putting a new name on the map—Lake America. Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” escalating his ongoing battle with Canada and putting Hochul directly in the crosshairs. Hochul isn’t playing along. […]
Rhode Island state Rep. Julie Casimiro (D) moved to South Carolina earlier this summer. She is still keeping her title in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Casimiro, a Democrat representing District 31 in North Kingstown and Exeter, moved to Hardeeville, South Carolina, and established the property as her primary residence on July 1. Despite […]
A growing coalition of Democrat-led states is heading back to court over the Trump administration's effort to reshape mail-in voting. And the Northeast is heavily represented. New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other Democratic-led states joined a new federal lawsuit this week challenging a U.S. Postal Service rule tied to President Donald Trump's […]
Governor Kelly Ayotte has opened her largest advantage yet over Democrat Cinde Warmington, according to the University of New Hampshire's Granite State Poll released Thursday. The survey of 1,878 likely voters, conducted August 20-24 by the UNH Survey Center, found Ayotte leading Warmington 49% to 39%, with 3% backing another candidate and 9% undecided. Ayotte's […]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants New York City to get into the grocery business. Now, New York's grocers are fighting back. A coalition representing roughly 1,000 minority-owned bodegas, supermarkets and small grocery businesses has filed legal challenges aimed at stopping Mamdani's plan to establish five city-run grocery stores, one in each borough. The proposal is one […]
Fifteen New York sheriffs are taking Gov. Kathy Hochul to federal court over a new state law that bars local law enforcement from entering into certain agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The law, dubbed the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, took effect this week after Hochul signed it in May. It prohibits local agencies […]
Pennsylvania’s Republican attorney general is taking on Snapchat. Attorney General Dave Sunday filed suit Tuesday against Snap Inc., accusing the social media giant of designing its platform to keep children compulsively engaged while misleading parents about the content young users can encounter. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia County Court, alleges Snapchat has marketed itself as […]
Dan McKee is still losing the Rhode Island governor's race, just by less than he was a few months ago. A new WPRI/Emerson College poll released Tuesday found Democratic challenger Helena Foulkes leading the incumbent governor 45% to 30%, with 25% of voters undecided. The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted August 21-22 by […]
Vice President JD Vance told a crowd in Brewer, Main that the 2026 midterms are a fight against socialism and made his case in a state Republicans desperately need to hold. The vice president headlined a rally Monday at Compotech, a defense technology manufacturer, in what marked his second appearance in Maine this year after […]
Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino, D-Methuen, was arrested Wednesday and taken into federal custody after a grand jury indicted him on 11 charges stemming from an alleged pandemic-era benefits scheme. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts and FBI Boston announced the indictment, which includes eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary […]
Maine's U.S. Senate race went negative on television this week, with Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson opening fire on each other's records as the general election sprint intensifies. Jackson, who replaced Graham Platner as the Democratic nominee in July after Platner's campaign collapsed amid misconduct allegations, is casting affordable health care as his top […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) threw her support behind Sen. Ed Markey on Thursday, injecting progressive star power into a Massachusetts Senate primary he now leads by nearly 30 points, hours before the candidates' final debate. Ocasio-Cortez cited her legislative "partnership on the Green New Deal" with Markey in a statement from his campaign, backing the […]
A longtime Democratic donor is now raising money for Kathy Hochul's Republican challenger, a defection that lands as new polling shows the New York governor's race tightening with fewer than three months to Election Day. Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, widow of the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, has crossed party lines to support […]
