Ella Pelletier, left, Sophia Green, middle, and Abby Toohey cheer on the Oxford Hills Vikings girls’ basketball team during Wednesday’s tournament game in Portland. Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham
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US steps up winter-warfare training as global threat shifts
MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. (AP) — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. Their laminated targeting map is wedged into the ice just below the machine gun. Nearly 8,000 feet […]
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Angus King wants the US to unplug parts of electric grid
Replacing some digital systems with physical ones that hackers can’t compromise helped Ukraine recover after a massive 2015 cyberattack.
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New York considers preventing police from sharing suspects’ mug shots
New York’s governor doesn’t want state police to routinely release mug shots of criminal suspects, or booking records about exactly what they’re being arrested for.
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Americans shocked by impact of new tax law
Husband and wife Andy Kraft and Amy Elias, of Portland, Ore., pose with their 2018 tax paperwork in their Portland home on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. The couple got a small refund last year but this year owe more than $10,000 in taxes under the new tax law. AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus Wait, I owe the […]
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Bernie Sanders to run for president on Medicare for all, climate change and $15 minimum wage
Sanders’ criminal justice platform will include legalizing marijuana, ending cash bail throughout the U.S., and abolishing private prisons.
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Police arrest Portland man after Westbrook store robbery and 2 cars stolen
Police say they found a stolen vehicle near the scene of a robbery and a second stolen vehicle was reported after the robbery.
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What’s actually in the ‘Green New Deal’ from Democrats?
No one is proposing to “eliminate all planes, cars, cows, oil, gas and the military.” No one created “doctored” versions of the Green New Deal that included these outlandish proposals.
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Debate over science of global warming is shifting, smartly, to dialogue about solutions
There are reasons for optimism in the journey to address the accelerating risks of climate change.
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How to design a Green New Deal that isn’t over the top
The emphasis should be on climate change while limiting costly new entitlements.