A bogus Facebook page posing as Gig Harbor barbecue owner and state Senate candidate Gary Parker lit up local feeds over the weekend, tossing out inflammatory posts that included one urging voters to elect Parker "so we can barbecue Deborah Krishnadasan." The fake account splashed Parker's headshot across its posts, linked to his campaign website and asked for donations, drawing fast outrage from commenters and injecting fresh toxicity into an already competitive legislative race.
“It’s a security-related measure,” Thune told reporters on Monday. “You’ve got a president where there have been three assassination attempts in just the last two years.” Thune said the funding is intended to secure the new facility and ensure the Secret Service has the resources needed to protect the president.
After the Monday vote, Duterte's defence counsel said the burden of proof now rests with her accusers. "We are fully prepared to defend the Vice President before the Senate sitting as an Impeachment Court," the statement said. An impeachment attempt against Sara Duterte was struck down
SFS’s ownership stake declined from roughly 90% at the end of 2024 to about 83% at the end of 2025. A registration statement tied to the 10b5-1 plan allowed SFS to resell up to 150 million shares of UWMC Class A common stock. In a statement, the company said SFS believes it has done its part as the controlling shareholder to respond to the requests of the investment community by selling shares without regard to the stock price since June 2025.
Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed Chris Rabb, a progressive firebrand state lawmaker from Philadelphia who's running for a U.S. House seat in a competitive, three-way Democratic primary. Ocasio-Cortez is rumored to be visiting Philadelphia this month to campaign for Rabb. She has also fundraised for Rabb and posted on social media in support of him.
Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts state representative stole $36,000 from the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod while serving as the group’s executive officer between 2019 and 2024. Authorities say he used the money to pay mortgage bills, credit card debt, campaign expenses, menswear, home appliances, and “personal psychic services,” according to a press release.
“We have to completely change the direction of leadership of the Democratic party. We need a Democratic party that knows how to fight to stop authoritarian rule,” said Chakrabarti.
Virginia's supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win ahead of November's midterm elections. The court found that the state's general assembly did not follow the appropriate constitutional procedure in approving the map, which voters then passed in a referendum last month. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy, the court wrote in its decision.
“The secretary will be meeting with Mr. Hamm at 5 PM in the Pearl Mesa room,” Burgum's aide later confirmed. Few Americans have such access to top government officials, but Hamm and Burgum have tight ties that go back to Burgum's tenure as the governor of North Dakota.
The election took place after an extraordinarily sweeping and deeply controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), ostensibly to remove duplicate, deceased or ineligible voters. Across West Bengal, more than nine million names—nearly 12 percent of the electorate—were initially flagged, removed or subjected to scrutiny during the exercise.
Federal law enforcement sources indicated that the raid was connected to a major corruption probe and illegal marijuana sale investigation, with multiple search warrants authorized by a federal judge.
