Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner says he is “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward” on Monday after a woman told CNN and Politico he raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship – an allegation Platner denies.

A woman who previously dated Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner said he drunkenly forced her to have sex after she told him to stop, according to a Politico report released Monday. Platner denied the allegation and said he would be considering next steps for his campaign.

Democratic Party leaders and close allies urged Graham Platner to quit the Maine Senate race, after a woman he had been romantically involved with publicly alleged that he sexually assaulted her. The allegation,

Politico reports that a woman Graham Platner dated claims he forced her to have sex against her will. The Maine Democratic Senate nominee denies the allegation. Aaron Zitner, reporter and editor in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau,

We are taking a closer look at a decision the Supreme Court made this past week. They ruled that President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship violated the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status.

Alarmingly, only five members of the nine-person U.S. Supreme Court found the U.S. president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship unconstitutional. This is a slender thread. In a case the U.

Story by Simon Heit

The pop superstar and Kansas City Chiefs tight end said "I do" in front of a celebrity-filled guest list at Madison Square Garden on Friday.

A White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted

White House 162-page report challenges the Smithsonian’s American history exhibits and leadership. Read the full breakdown on REVOLT.

The White House report comes after President Donald earlier this year announced plans to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targeted funding for programs that he claims advanced certain ideologies.

The report suggests that President Donald Trump might be planning to appoint his own team to oversee these institutions.

Staff for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said last week that the senator is “continuing his recovery” in a hospital while the Senate is out of session.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remains hospitalized more than three weeks after suffering a medical emergency, with his office releasing scant details about his condition as speculation persists over his future in the Senate.

No new information 3 weeks after Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized

McConnell has been hospitalized for more than three weeks, and his office still will not say what sent the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican there.

Crowds of Iranians marched through the streets of Tehran on Monday in a funeral procession for slain ​leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the biggest day yet in a week of massive memorial ceremonies demonstrating the grip of ‌surviving clerical leaders.

Authorities predict 20 million people will attend six days of ceremonies to mourn the supreme leader killed in the war with Israel and the U.S.

Thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with anti-US sentiment dominating parts of the ceremony as crowds chanted slogans against US President Donald Trump.

Visuals show a massive red banner bearing the slogan being hoisted above a dense sea of mourners, many waving Iranian flags alongside red and green banners associated with Shia mourning rituals.