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Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) (GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The race to unseat Susan Collins is resetting around abortion

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U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner looks from backstage before a town hall on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. (Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images)

Democrats say they want a fighter. Does it have to be a White man?

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Melat Kiros participated in a League of Women Voters Congressional District 1 candidate forum at Montview Presbyterian Church on May 28, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/Getty Images)

A 29-year-old democratic socialist takes on Colorado’s most senior member of Congress

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Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why Democrats are running against the “Epstein class”

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Attorney Lisa Bloom (R) comforts Lonna Drewes during a press conference in which Drewes accused U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of sexual assault, on April 14, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Politics is shaken by a new wave of #MeToo reckonings

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Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

Epstein tracked #MeToo fallout and advised accused men behind the scenes

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U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) speaks during the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on December 03, 2024 in Washington, DC. This year's tree is an 80-foot Sitka spruce from the Wrangell District Region in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mary Peltola may put Alaska’s Senate race in reach for Democrats

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