Sen. Chris Murphy says Platner ‘made mistakes’ after explicit texts revealed

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past an overgrown patch of garden to a white door. Beyond is the registered office of a company that is on the brink of winning contracts worth more than $1 billion. […]

At midnight on Sunday, New Jersey officials chose to help federal agents suppress the ongoing rallies at a New Jersey ICE detention center rather than acknowledge the concerns of hundreds of detainees and protesters gathered there. Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka, citing an “increasing need for police intervention,” declared that “immediate action is required to […]

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday predicted that oil shipments will pass through the Strait of Hormuz in "a month or two," while it has been closed off amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. Hassett told ABC's Jonathan Karl on "This Week" that there is "a lot more traffic" passing through the strait...

Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said, “This is not the Republican Party, it’s the MAGA party,” arguing that President Donald Trump’s continued success in Republican primaries demonstrates the extent to which the GOP has become aligned with the MAGA movement. Concha highlighted Trump’s success rate in backing Republican candidates and pointed to recent defeats suffered by […]