A new video promo of the upcoming Charlie Kirk documentary “Bride of Charlie” has ignited a firestorm of controversy.

Firebrand podcaster Candace Owens released the trailer Tuesday of her alleged documentary into Kirk’s savage killing.

Owens has been accused of suggesting that Kirk’s widow may have had a hand in his September murder so that she could take over Turning Point USA, his organization.

Judging from the trailer, critics believe Owens is once again stoking conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk’s assassination, including whether Erika Kirk had something to do with it.

“Owens uses dramatic clips from news coverage of the shooting, leaked audio from TPUSA calls, and shadowy visuals to question Erika’s actions since the tragedy,” reports Yahoo Entertainment. “The title plays on ‘Bride of Chucky,’ which many see as a jab at Erika’s marriage and her quick rise to CEO of the organization her husband built.”

The trailer hints at allegations ranging from Erika’s past work with Romanian orphanages linked to trafficking claims to her time in China and online interactions with a teenager years ago.

“Owens stresses she is not accusing crimes, just raising questions, but the tone feels pointed and personal,” Yahoo says.

Episode one of the alleged documentary premieres February 25, and the teaser racked up views fast, splitting opinions in conservative circles.

“Some call it a bold push for truth, while others label it outright harassment of a woman still mourning her husband,” according to Yahoo.

Owens is an American political commentator and author her political positions having mostly been described as conservative or far-right.

She has promoted conspiracy theories on a wide range of subjects throughout her career. Since 2024, she has espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Owens has raised the possibility that Israel was at least partly behind Kirk’s murder, allegedly because he was reluctant to speak out defending Israel.

Kirk was fatally shot in the neck on September 10, 2025, while on stage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, for a TPUSA event, “The American Comeback Tour.”

Since then, Owens has piggybacked on the murder, some argue, just to promote her cause, whatever it is.

Breeze Airways will kick off a new service between the Akron-Canton, Ohio Airport and Portland, Maine, this summer.

At the same time, the carrier is discontinuing service from Akron-Canton to Los Angeles, deeming it too costly.

Portland will be the carrier’s 16th destination from Akron-Canton, according to Cleveland.com.

Flights to Portland will run Thursdays and Sundays starting July 2. Eastbound flights will leave Akron-Canton at 8:18 p.m., landing in Portland at 10:09 p.m. Return flights will leave Portland at 7 a.m., arriving at Akron-Canton at 9:01 a.m.

The seasonal route is expected to run through late October.

No other airline currently flies from northeast Ohio to Maine’s largest city.

As if the nation’s top defense official doesn’t have enough on his plate…

Pete Hegseth told reporters he just learned about a site on “X” that monitors pizza orders coming from the Pentagon.

The originator of the “Pentagon Pizza Report” determined that he could figure out whether there was a major military movement being planned depending on how many pizzas were being ordered in the vicinity of the nation’s defense headquarters.

“Various pizzerias nearby the Pentagon are reporting above average traffic,” the site – which has 376,000 followers – reported Tuesday night.

It also shows bar graphs indicating the rate of business at each pizza parlor near the Pentagon, including Domino’s, Papa John’s Pizza and Wiseguy Pizza.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he’s going to have to start ordering pizzas on random nights just to throw off the monitoring app, according to FromTheHill.com.

Hegseth jokingly said any surge in takeout deliveries to the Pentagon – a phenomenon that has accurately predicted the start of major geopolitical events – could be him ordering pizza “just to throw everybody off.”

Asked about the “Pentagon Pizza Report,” Hegseth said he was aware of the account.

“I’ve thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off,” he said Sunday on Fox News. “Some Friday night when you see a bunch of Dominos orders, it might just be me on an app, throwing the whole system off so we keep everybody off balance. We look at every indicator.”

The Pentagon Pizza Report tracks “popular times” data on Google Maps for pizzerias near the Pentagon and other major military installations under the idea that sudden surges in evening or late-night activity suggest high-level officials are working later than usual – an indication of potential or current military action around the world.

Hours before news broke on Israel’s major attack on Iran on June 12, for example, Pentagon Pizza Report noted a surge in Google Maps activity from four pizza places near the Pentagon around 7 p.m. – a signal military leaders were staying in place to monitor unfolding events.

Nicole Silverio is a reporter with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan unintelligibly shouted at President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he brought up illegal immigration.

If you plan a seminar featuring a banished anti-Israeli speaker and it gets cancelled, you apparently then need to come up with a quick new excuse for hating Jews.

Enter the anemic Portland Press Herald, which is now quoting an organizer for the doomed pro-Palestinian confab as complaining that “conservatives” are at fault for being the skunk at the garden party.

“Organizers said in a statement Tuesday the cancellation was the product of an ‘outside pressure campaign’ after the conference was written about in several Jewish and Israeli news outlets, and the right-wing publication The Maine Wire,” according to Maine’s newspaper of questionable record.

The February 28 event in Portland was to be co-hosted by the Maine Coalition for Palestine, Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights and the University of Southern Maine.

But the problem for the organizers is not The Maine Wire – contrary to the Portland Press Herald report – but featured speaker Francesca Albanese, who is on the U.S. Department of Treasury’s sanction list.

Once school officials learned Albanese was on the roster of invitees, they told the pro-Palestinian crowd they were no longer welcome.

“To have this individual speak virtually would have required conference organizers to obtain permission from the Treasury Department, which they did not,” a school spokeswoman was quoted in the Portland Press Herald. “Hosting a conference that is being actively promoted as including a speaker sanctioned by the U.S. government would put our public university in violation of federal law.”

WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump delivered what was described as the longest State of the Union address in recent memory Tuesday night, using a sweeping, victory-lap speech to declare that “our nation is back” and that “the golden age of America” is underway.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used his Tuesday evening State of the Union address to launch what he described as a national “war on fraud,” putting Maine in the crosshairs and naming Vice President J.D. Vance to lead the administration’s enforcement push.

The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating three serious fires that took place in under 24 hours, including one in Augusta that left a man dead.

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BREAKING: John Barron (Trump’s known past pseudonym) called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court’s tariff decision. pic.twitter.com/xqxqIqpLwK

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 22, 2026

Trump or not, C-SPAN officials took the whole thing so seriously they put out a statement after the viral public reaction to the show denying the caller was Trump.

Actor Patrick Dempsey, the Lewiston-born heartthrob alum of Grey’s Anatomy, is a revisionist when it comes to fondly remembering his late fellow actor Eric Dane.

That according to an extra who worked on the Grey’s Anatomy set with both actors.

Maine-born Dempsey, 60, was just quoted by the New York Post remembering Dane, 53, as the “funniest man” and “such a joy to work with.”

“I just want to remember him in that spirit because any time he was on the Grey’s Anatomy set, he brought so much fun to it,” Dempsey said.

“We hit it off because there was never really any competition,” Dempsey added. “There was this wonderful mutual respect; he was wickedly intelligent and I’m always going to remember those moments of fun that we had together and celebrate the joy that he did bring to people’s lives.”

Not so fast, says a former Grey’s Anatomy background actress.

Laura Ann Tull paints Dane, who died last week of ALS, as a self-involved narcissistic egomaniac hung up on his good looks.

And that’s just the least of what Tull says she remembers of Dane.

Posting on the social-media network Threads in response to a Variety announcement about Dane’s passing, Laura Ann Tull wrote bluntly that he “was a bully and an a-hole,” immediately sparking pushback from other users.

In a series of follow-up posts, she alleged that Dane had mistreated her during her time working as an extra on Grey’s Anatomy, where she says she spent three years on set.

“He was a coward who abused me. Bullied me. Made fun of me,” she wrote in one reply.

In another, she claimed, “He just died. I only wish he’d apologized & admitted what he did.”

Tull also suggested she played a role in his exit from the show, writing, “I am why he was fired from Grey’s,” while alleging she had contacted production prior to his departure. She did not provide evidence supporting that claim.

Elsewhere in the thread, her posts expanded beyond on-set allegations. She accused Dane of interfering with her ability to work and claimed long-term consequences tied to that experience.

“His dying doesn’t change the destruction he caused me,” she wrote, adding that she intended to pursue legal action at one point.

The comments echo themes Tull previously shared in a 2018 Medium post, where she described her time working in Hollywood and referenced Dane by name.

In that essay, she said she never directly spoke to him on set but believed he had spoken negatively about her to others.

“I worked on set of Grey’s Anatomy for three years as an extra, but I never spoke to Dane once directly,” she wrote. “But I did hear him talk about me.”

She also described being labeled “weird” through a third party and said the experience contributed to her feeling pushed out of the industry.

There is no confirmed public record supporting Tull’s claim that she influenced Dane’s departure from Grey’s Anatomy.

Dane’s 2012 exit from the show was driven by budget and creative decisions, as long-running cast members became more expensive for the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Dane himself acknowledged he was also dealing with personal issues, including drug addiction, but maintained that those were not the primary reason for his departure.

Dane rose to prominence as Dr. Mark Sloan – nicknamed “McSteamy” – before later taking on a major role in HBO’s Euphoria.

The handsome Dempsey, who portrayed Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd, was Dane’s counterweight.

Dempsey’s good looks won him the “Sexiest Man Alive” title three years ago from People magazine.

He was born in Lewiston and grew up in the nearby towns of Turner and Buckfield.

If Maine legislators are really interested in fixing the nightmare known as the state Office of Child and Family Services, they need to talk to Sabrina Rose.

Rose, who lives in Presque Isle, has written and published a new book about how she believes the state’s foster system failed her and others.

The state “removed me from my mother’s care and placed me with strangers, promised me that life would turn out better that way.

“But I still grew up to be an addict.”

The publication of Rose’s book comes amid an effort by state Sen. Jeff Timberlake, R-Androscoggin, to investigate the state’s child-services division of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Timberlake recently wrote a legislative government oversight committee to begin looking into some of the problems playing in the child-welfare bureau.

“A 2023 study showed that Maine led the nation in terms of the mistreatment of children in the state’s custody – a superlative that has been a blight on the system,” Libby Palanza of The Maine Wire wrote last year. “Groups like Walk a Mile in Their Shoes have been sharply critical of the agency that has been so poorly run that it has cost some of the children under its care their lives, the non-profit’s founder, Bill Diamond, said.”

Rose, who is in recovery and has been sober for nearly two years, said she “decided to investigate why the state removed me from my mother’s care.”

She said was “handed over to a man who would inflict child abuse and neglect until I finally ran away at 17.”

“The state of Maine,” Rose said, “has a lot of answering to do.”

“Finding Michelle Canu,” a story about Rose’s search for her mother, was released last week on Amazon.

The book is about what Rose calls a “generational cycle of trauma” created decades ago by state child-welfare officials.

“From the gut-wrenching reality of life inside adoption to the biological war of bipolar disorder and PTSD, this is my hunt for the truth,” Rose says. “It is a journey back through the shadows of addiction and systemic erasure to find the woman they tried to make me forget.”

Rose has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with seven years of experience in social work. She also has written two memoirs with the intention of inspiring others to find purpose in life.

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Her author bio says she “writes to inspire those trapped in the same systems she escaped, proving that while a life can be redacted, the soul remains unerasable.”

Members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have spoken out in response to the United States Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision Friday striking down President Donald Trump’s (R) sweeping global tariffs.

All four lawmakers representing Maine in Washington D.C. expressed support for the Court’s ruling, but their respective statements varied notably in tone and tenor.