The Issue: Graham Platner withdraws from the Maine Senate race amid new allegations of sexual abuse.

The decision by Graham Platner to halt his campaign for the U.S. Senate is both a significant development and a cautionary tale for Americans (“Plat out of Maine race,” July 9).

Platner’s presence in the political realm has been likened to a metastasizing cancer within the Democratic Party. The term “Democratic Socialism” risks being overshadowed by a rising tide of what some call “Democratic sociopaths.” This sentiment is echoed in the profile of a sociopath: individuals who frequently disregard others’ rights and feelings, showing a lack of empathy and remorse, and often resorting to manipulation or deceit for personal benefit.

Martin Garfinkle

Staten Island

Platner may be a “repugnant dirtbag,” but is he really more repugnant or a bigger dirtbag than the president who brags about grabbing women’s genitals, lies about elections, pardoned Jan. 6 criminals, protects Epstein pedophiles, trashes our allies, praises our enemies, was found liable in the E. Jean Carroll case, misused charitable funds, paid off a porn star and much more?

Matt Dwyer

Naples, Fla.

What has the Democratic Party come to? It was apparent from the outset that Platner was not a decent human being. Yet Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker and Rep. Ro Khanna all endorsed him.

The Democratic Party no longer represents “We the People.” Instead, it is focused on pursuing an agenda that, in my view, would undermine Western civilization as we know it.

Jim Millar

Fitzwilliam, NH

The Post’s editorial chronicling Democrats’ sad trip on the Platner roller-coaster can be cut down to a fragment buried in the middle of the piece: “Democrats have been so wrapped up in their Trump hate, they failed to . . .” Fill in the blank (“Dems’ Moral Bankruptcy,” July 8).

Trump has played them so well that they are continuously on the back foot, so frazzled that they are unable to organize effective opposition to his policies.

Warren Nitti

Edgewater, NJ

This Platner situation is not new. When former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was facing public outcry over 16,000 senior citizens dying, Democrats quickly switched to sexual predator allegations.

The reason is simple: It does less damage to the party, as the focus is on the morality of the individual, rather than the political decisions of a Democrat. Eric Swalwell shared the same fate.

Robert Sanfilippo

N. Bellmore

The Issue: Ex-Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel calling for an end to America’s support of Israel.

Your editorial on Rahm Emanuel confirms that politicians talk way too much, are often wrong and think whatever they say is prescient (“Rahm Emanuel Sells Out Israel,” July 9).

Silence has its place in the public square, but pols feel compelled to contribute to the discourse no​ matter how foolish their message.

Emanuel showed off his ridiculous line of parity on Middle East relations by excoriating Israel on several matters, despite being wrong on all counts.

Rich Klitzberg

Princeton, NJ

Emanuel wants to enhance his electoral chances by joining the chorus of Israel-bashers. My father — a survivor of the Holocaust from a large extended family — would tell him that such pandering won’t work at all.

When the haters go after the Jews, they’re coming for Emanuel, Brad Lander and Bernie Sanders along with the rest of us.

Jack Weinberg

Manhattan

With President Trump at the helm, assisted by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, we don’t need a former Chicago mayor’s advice on foreign relations.

Allen Schwartz

Manhattan

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Yesterday marked a heartfelt reunion as the saw his grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, once again.

Charles and Camilla discreetly welcomed Harry, Meghan, and their two children at Highgrove for a much-anticipated family gathering.

The reunion took place at the monarch’s private residence in Gloucestershire, conveniently located near both Oxfordshire, where Charles had been engaged in official duties, and Birmingham, where Prince Harry attended an Invictus Games countdown event.

The meeting was organized under a veil of confidentiality.

It had been since 2022 that Charles last saw Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, who were then just three and one year old. He last met with Harry, now 41, in September of the previous year. Tensions rose earlier this week when Charles had to publicly correct an inaccurate claim from Harry’s PR team suggesting he had accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace during his UK visit.

In fact, after weeks of refusing his father’s invitation, he accepted too late.

Harry arrived in the UK on Monday. The following day he lost his High Court case alleging wrong-doing by Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Daily Mail, and yesterday he started the year-long countdown to his Invictus Games.

Meghan and the children slipped into Britain unnoticed from their holiday home in Europe.

Buckingham Palace refused to discuss any further details of what was described as a ‘private family occasion’.

The King and his senior officials had always hoped for a low-key, ‘peaceful’ family reconciliation, but weeks of leaks and briefings by Team Sussex had left them both ‘weary and wary’.

Both Charles and Camilla have been vilified by the prince in multiple interviews and documentaries, not to mention his memoir and sources described the situation as ‘sad’ for the King who is 77 and still living with cancer.

No images of yesterday’s meeting will be released. And, while the move will be welcomed as a thaw in family relations, palace courtiers will no doubt be carefully watching the Sussexes next move.

Meanwhile, although they were barely 100 miles apart on public engagements yesterday Prince William and his estranged brother might still have been on different sides of the Atlantic.

The heir to the throne was supported by his beaming wife, the Princess of Wales, as he led his team to victory in the DMMI Royal Charity Cup at the Guards Polo Club at Windsor.

Sporting an eye-catching black and white gingham Alice Temperley dress with £260 low-heeled nude Camilla Elphick sling-backs, Catherine, 44, cheered her husband from the sidelines then presented him with a trophy – and a kiss on each cheek for good measure – before they left, smiling, hand in hand.

The event was raising funds for ten charities supported by the couple, ranging from homelessness to mental health. In the 15 years William has taken part in the event he has helped to raise more than £15million for good causes.

By contrast Prince Harry was riding solo at an event in Birmingham to mark the one-year countdown to his Invictus Games for injured service personnel, which returns to the UK next July. Barely days ago his spokesman had announced that Meghan would be joining him as part of a week of public engagements.

Even after Harry, 41, began prevaricating about the trip over apparent fears for his family’s security, his team were stressing to friendly media that she still planned to attend.

But on Thursday night his spokesman announced the Duchess of Sussex had pulled out.

They said she still planned to travel to England with their children but would no longer take part in public events.

However it was strongly hinted that she would be present for ‘private’ family moments, raising the prospect of a meeting with the King, as well as what has been described as a ‘family reunion’ with the Spencer family at Althorp, Princess Diana’s ancestral home.

In Birmingham one observer said Harry had his ‘game face’ on. He gave an ‘interview’ to This Morning’s Alison Hammond, which consisted mainly of her telling him how wonderful he was, as well as a speech in which he urged people to learn from the ‘Invictus community’.

A recent report has unveiled the cause of death of the American woman who was discovered deceased in a picturesque Irish town earlier this week.

Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old originally from New York who had relocated to Ireland in 2021, succumbed to suffocation after enduring head trauma, according to a report by The Irish Times. The report cites findings from the Irish state pathologist, Dr. Linda Mulligan.

Initial speculations suggested Carney was killed by physical assault, but the post-mortem analysis revealed suffocation, rather than head injuries, as the cause of death. Law enforcement authorities are now treating her demise as a murder investigation.

Irish police said a person of interest had fled the country before her body was found Tuesday at her home in Killarney, County Kerry, a southwest town popular among American tourists. Some Irish publications are reporting the person of interest is an asylum seeker.

The Irish Times reported Carney’s body was discovered by a family member at the home she shared with her 13-year-old daughter.

News Media sought independent confirmation of the reported cause of death from Irish police, the Kerry coroner and the Irish state pathologist. The Irish Justice Department, which oversees the state pathologist, declined to comment, citing the ongoing criminal investigation, as did Irish police.

Investigators believe the person of interest first arrived in the United Kingdom before traveling to Ireland, RTÉ reported. The Irish broadcaster said detectives have contacted airline and transport authorities and are coordinating with British police and immigration officials as they work to trace his identity and movements. Irish police have also contacted Interpol and Europol.

Despite the international manhunt, Irish police have yet to publicly identify the person of interest or release his name, photograph or physical description.

Irish police, per RTÉ, reported police said they were not in a position to comment on his age, name or nationality for legal reasons, though authorities did not specify the legal basis.

News Media asked Irish police to identify the person of interest and explain the legal basis for withholding his identity. They declined to provide any new information, saying there were “no additional updates at this time.”

The Irish Times reported the person of interest is from the Middle East and has permission to remain permanently in Ireland.

Investigators believe the man caught an early-morning bus from Killarney to Dublin Airport — about 200 miles away — before boarding a flight to Istanbul before Carney’s body was found, according to The Irish Times.

The Irish Mirror reported the person of interest was an asylum seeker living in state-run accommodation in Killarney and that the man knew Carney and frequently stayed at her home.

Carney’s social media profiles described her as a “New Yorker in Ireland” and showed her with a man she identified as her partner. In one recent post, she referred to them as a “mixed couple.” A social media account appearing to belong to the man Carney identified as her partner contains posts from the United Kingdom and Turkey in recent years.

The Irish Times described Carney as a third-generation Irish American originally from Westchester County, just north of New York City. The newspaper reported her father died 11 months ago.

Public records reviewed by News Media indicate she also had ties to Rockland County, New York, and northern New Jersey, while News Media sources said she was a familiar face along Yonkers’ McLean Avenue, a neighborhood with a large Irish-American community.

The State Department confirmed to News Media that an American citizen died in County Kerry on July 7 and said it was providing consular assistance to the victim’s family.

A woman who says she is Carney’s sister wrote on social media that she and her mother are in Ireland for the foreseeable future and working with Irish police. She wrote that a GoFundMe has been set up to help the family cover funeral expenses.

Carney’s cousin, Ryan Fox, said the victim had been very proud of her Irish roots and had been “looking for a beautiful country with like-minded people to raise her daughter,” according to The Irish Times.

“She was taken from the people that love her and we’re all going to do everything in our power to make sure that this doesn’t happen to more people because nobody, nobody deserves this,” Fox said, according to the newspaper citing an interview on RTÉ.

Irish police continue to appeal for anyone who was in the Muckross Road area between 11 p.m. on July 6 and 5 a.m. on July 7 and who may have CCTV or dashcam footage to contact investigators.

Paulina Porizkova has exchanged vows with Jeff Greenstein!

The happy couple celebrated their nuptials in Italy and shared the joyous announcement on Instagram this past Friday.

“Just married💍,” they captioned their joint posts, along with photos of the couple embracing and Porizkova proudly displaying her stunning diamond ring.

Earlier in the week, on Wednesday, they had discussed the complex legal journey they faced to wed in Italy in a previous post.

“The process of legally marrying in Italy is challenging enough for Italians,” they wrote in the post. “For two foreigners, it involves about seven months of paperwork. And the complexities persist, even after being officially declared a married couple.”

The television writer, 63, popped the question to the Sports Illustrated cover star in July 2025 after two years of dating.

“He asked,” Porizkova, 61, shared in an Instagram video at the time while showing off her sparkler.

The author was previously married to Cars frontman Ric Ocasek from 1989 until their 2018 separation.

Porizkova — who shared sons Jonathan, 32, and Oliver, 28, with Ocasek — described her family as a “well-built car” but explained that “as a bicycle, my husband and I no longer pedal in unison.”

In 2019, the musician died unexpectedly from heart disease at age 75.

Porizkova, who was still living with Ocasek at the time, found him deceased in their townhouse.

After the rocker’s untimely passing, the mom of two expressed that losing her former partner of 28 years left her feeling like she wanted to die.

As she told Page Six, “It’s not even so much that I thought about how to kill myself or when to kill myself; it was just that feeling of, ‘I just don’t know how to go on.’”

Meanwhile, Ocasek secretly cut Porizkova out of his will before his death, which left the runway star with no choice but to rely on friends for help.

Porizkova then documented her grief journey, even uploading a video of herself crying on the two-year anniversary of Ocasek’s passing.

She told followers at the time, “This is me at my most vulnerable. My most naked.”

Porizkova has also brought fans along for her search in love.

She was briefly linked to Aaron Sorkin in 2021 before opening up on the lack of available single men in 2023.

“I’m not kidding, 75 percent of the men that I’ve come on a date with when I ask them what went wrong in their last relationship, they will tell me that their wives had a borderline disorder,” Porizkova criticized to Page Six.

However, soon after, the actress found her other half in Greenstein, and the pair went public with their romance in May 2023.

Meanwhile, just days before their Italian nuptials, Porizkova revealed that she was getting evicted from her New York City digs. Despite having lived in her Manhattan apartment since 2021, her landlord chose not extend her lease.

Porizkova shared on her and Greenstein’s “Twenty Good Summers” podcast, that she “begged and pleaded” with her landlord to no avail.

“And so we have to move out of here four days before we get married in Italy. Not great,” she added. “We are both over 60, and we are starting again.”

Luckily the newlyweds own other homes.

“We’re very privileged souls,” Porizkova gushed. “I do have a country house that I co-own with my sons [Jonathan and Oliver]. And so we can move up there, which is kind of further away from New York City.”

Another option is her husband’s Los Angeles pad, which the pair is in the “process of selling.”

“But for the time being,” Porizkova said, “we can go there.”

CHICAGO (WLS) — In a significant legal development, a Chicago man has been found guilty of federal murder-for-hire charges. The charges stem from a plot targeting two would-be witnesses in his cousin’s impending murder trial, as reported by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Friday.

The prosecution detailed that 41-year-old Christopher Yates enlisted two individuals during the summer of 2024 with the intent of silencing those he suspected would testify against his cousin. His cousin was scheduled to stand trial in Cook County, accused of a fatal shooting occurring in 2020.

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Yates allegedly armed his accomplices with a pistol and ammunition, instructing them to eliminate the witnesses. “I want them both off the board. Both of them got to