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Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows
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Loose military horses stampede through central London
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Arizona House advances a repeal of the state’s 1864 near-total abortion ban to the Senate
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Students protesting on campuses across U.S. ask colleges to cut investments supporting Israel
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Firefighters from several towns battle woods, grass, brush fires in Farmington
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Business
Biden picks up another big union endorsement, this one from building trades workers
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Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by U.S. to hit Russian-held areas
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Local & State
Portland attorney nominated to become federal judge
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Lewiston-Auburn
Commemorative gathering plans to help show community support for Lewiston mass shooting victims
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Local & State
Winslow looks to revitalize its downtown, improve pedestrian walkability in new 10-year plan
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Nation & World
Columbia University extends talks with Gaza war protesters, averting another confrontation
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7 mins agoA 14-year-old male also was involved in the early morning capture of suspects Wednesday and is being held in protective custody, according to Fairfield police Chief Tom Gould.
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April 24The five-year plan announced Wednesday includes auctions in 2024 and 2028 for areas in the Gulf of Maine.
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April 24About 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income.
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April 24Boeing’s financial woes continue, while families of crash victims urge U.S. to prosecute the companyBoeing is reporting a $355 million loss for the first quarter.
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April 24It was unclear whether members of the conservative majority were swayed by the Biden administration's argument that federal law overrides the state in rare emergency cases where a pregnant patient's health is at serious risk.
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April 24Klimt left the painting, with small parts unfinished, in his studio when he died of a stroke in early 1918.
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April 24The proposed $24.6 million budget for Regional School Unit 73 passed by a vote of 460 to 261.
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April 24The Biden administration is laying out more of its vision for decarbonizing the nation’s freight industry.
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April 24The president immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine.
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April 24The rule will also apply to refunds of checked-bag fees if the bag isn’t delivered within 12 hours for domestic flights or 15 to 30 hours for international flights.
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April 24States’ efforts are largely focused on identifying content produced using AI as opposed to controlling that content or prohibiting its distribution.
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at 7:00 AMA University of Maine professor explains the factors contributing to an abundance of eastern white pine cones that grew on trees last fall and dropped to the ground over the past few months.
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April 24The U.S. House approved the package Saturday after months of delays, and it was passed by the Senate on Tuesday.
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April 24Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.
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April 24The appropriations committee is estimated to have as much as $11 million that still could be allocated, but it's unclear if it will meet again and if lawmakers could then act on the bills that get approved.
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April 23Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signatureThe bill now goes to President Biden, who has backed the TikTok proposal and has said he will sign the bill as soon as he gets it.
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April 24The change would help complete the project faster using available funding, said selectmen, who also voted to wait on sending the construction of the new complex out to bid for a contractor until late May.
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April 23An activist group says Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war.
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Launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space – the space between star systems – since 2012.
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April 24The Waterville Planning Board got a look at preliminary plans for The Residence Hall on Mayflower Hill Drive on Tuesday, and Colby College officials are scheduled to return to the board May 14 for final approval.
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April 23The case, to be argued Thursday, stems from Trump's attempts to have charges against him dismissed.
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April 23Members of the public who oppose the bill harangued Republican lawmakers after the vote, leading House Speaker Cameron Sexton to order the galleries cleared.
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April 23Martha Gaythwaite is representing the state in an unusual case where the attorney general's office is both prosecuting and defending.
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April 23Two Bridges Regional Jail confirmed a resident died Sunday morning, but released no other information pending the investigation by the Maine State Police.
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April 23The state's K-12 schools reached "herd immunity" – when at least 95% of a population is vaccinated – for the first time since 2011, health officials said Tuesday.
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April 23The 22-year-old victim was allegedly chopped at multiple times by another man with an 18-inch rusty machete.
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April 23The House and Senate will come back to vote on any vetoes, which require two-thirds support to overturn.
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April 24Hannaford supermarket officials say to throw out Hannaford-branded 85% lean ground beef purchased between April 6-18 or return to the store for a refund.
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U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court.
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More people are using so-called Earned Wage Access apps to get money to pay bills and buy groceries in between paydays.
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April 24Critics say the minimum staffing levels are unrealistic and an unfunded mandate that will further burden the state's nursing homes, many of which are at risk of closing or downsizing because of worker shortages.
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April 23The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce's 61st annual awards ceremony will be held Thursday to a sold out audience at the Waterville Elks Banquet Center where eight other awards will be presented.
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April 23If approved by voters, the district's budget would increase to just over $20 million next year, which officials say is fueled by rising inflation and the high cost of labor.
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April 23The printer's frame fills up the large building in which it’s housed on the Orono campus, and can print objects 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high.
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April 23If the court sides with Starbucks, it could make it tougher for the federal labor board to step in when it alleges corporate interference in unionization efforts.
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April 24The proposal drew significant debate in the Legislature this session as well as opposition from out-of-state Republican attorneys general who called it 'constitutionally defective.'
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April 23Prosecutors called the messages a 'deliberate flouting' of the court’s prohibition and requested a $1,000 fine for each one.
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April 23The Bowdoin College graduate has spent over a year behind bars.
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April 23Schools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining safe and inclusive campuses.
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April 23David Pecker is the first witness in Trump's historic hush money trial in Manhattan, where he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with payments meant to prevent harmful stories from surfacing.
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The measure passed the Senate in a bipartisan 22-8 vote but was never taken up in the House. 'We could have at least had the conversation,' said the bill's sponsor.
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April 23Aaron Skolfield defended his actions in an interview Monday and said Robert Card's Army superiors misled him about the threat he posed.
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A $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area has started construction.
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A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation is 'enormously valuable' but hasn't lived up to its potential.
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April 23Acadia Healthcare is under contract to buy 2 Old Point Ave., the former Taylor’s Drug Store, where it plans to open a behavioral health clinic offering medication-assisted treatment and other services.
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April 22After advancing to the Top 12 on Sunday, Gagnon sang 'Something in the Orange' by Zach Bryan on Monday night, earning a place in the top 10.
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April 23The budget bill includes funding for storm relief, investments in affordable and emergency housing, a new minimum wage for education technicians and school support staff, and more.
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U.S. health and weather officials are unveiling a new color-coded system to warn Americans about heat danger, and it will set magenta as the most dangerous level.
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Assaults on transit workers have tripled over the last 15 years, according to research from the Urban Institute, making it more difficult for public agencies to recruit and retain their workers.
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The 2 victims were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through Libby, Montana.
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April 24Clinton police said Damon Bickford, 40, had been missing since about 10 p.m. Sunday.
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April 22Chairman Lance Harvell of Farmington issued a verbal apology and a written apology to Keith Amato of Wilton on April 16.
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The federal government is for the first time requiring nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed grim realities in poorly staffed facilities.
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April 22The final letter that George Mallory wrote to his wife before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago has been digitalized.
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April 22The opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts
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Her accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the 'Sex and the City' TV series.
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April 22Maine's programs are intended to bring solar power to renters and homeowners, rural and urban households and others that may not be well-suited for on-site solar.
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April 22Threats to election offices that have been an alarming consequence of Trump's false claims about his 2020 loss loom as a perilous wildcard for the thousands of local government workers who will oversee the election this fall.
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April 22The 60 funded recipients, including the Maine Governor's Energy Office, will serve 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
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April 22The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday put legislation requiring ByteDance to divest its ownership stake in TikTok on a fast track to become law.
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April 22A 3-year-old is expected to survive after falling from a Pierce Street residence, police say.
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April 22The proposed $13.7 million spending plan cuts a couple of positions, but adds some, too, Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said.
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April 22Randall J. Weddle, 61, failed in his appeal after the state's highest court affirmed his sentence as reasonable and not excessively harsh.
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April 22A group of 9 boys broke out of the building in South Portland in January but never left the grounds, police said.
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April 22Environmentalists say that in 5 years, regulators have adopted only 2 rules aimed at Maine’s Climate Law’s requirements, and not a single rule to scale back pollution from tailpipe emissions.
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April 23Nicholas Eckert, 32, of Norridgewock was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and criminal threatening for his role in the incident, which drew a heavy police presence, officials said.
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April 22Scarborough, Brunswick and Wells are among the communities in Maine that will get funding to conserve areas affected by climate change.
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April 22At issue is a federal regulation that changed the definition of a firearm to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, so they can be tracked more easily.
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April 22Aharon Haliva, head of military intelligence, handed in his resignation. He’s the first senior Israeli official to step down over the assault by Hamas.
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April 22Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and could face four years in prison if convicted, though it’s not clear if the judge would seek to put him behind bars.
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April 22In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
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April 22The $18 million pilot initiative is meant to curb evictions. About 2,400 people and families will qualify.
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April 22UMaine schools are part of a national trend where acceptance offers are made to select students who never officially applied. So far, nearly 300 students who received the UMaine offers have enrolled.
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April 22On the strength of a Whitney Houston song, Gagnon inches one step closer to making the top 10.
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April 21The globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent became one of America’s longest-held hostages.
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April 21Xisen Guo, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, faces charges after a bust in rural Penobscot County. A detention hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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April 22Joy Cumming, 53, and her mother, Jean Robinson, 76, were found dead in December 2023 at the home they shared on Red Schoolhouse Road.
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April 21After an initial crackdown and decline, the rate of the powerful medications given to nursing home residents has ticked back up in recent years.