President Trump, who rattled U.S. allies at a NATO meeting last week, voiced concern in a television interview broadcast Tuesday night that sending troops from the alliance to defend an “aggressive” Montenegro could result in World War III. Trump was asked about Montenegro, which joined NATO last year and has a population smaller than the […]
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Court taking up LePage administration's Medicaid policy today
AUGUSTA — Maine’s highest court will hear arguments Wednesday over the LePage administration’s refusal to begin offering Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of additional adults. Meanwhile, lawmakers and a representative for Maine’s hospitals say they have yet to see a formal plan from Gov. Paul LePage’s office detailing a proposal he made last month […]
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Golden calls Poliquin "astonishingly weak" on Russia
LEWISTON — Democratic U.S. House candidate Jared Golden said Tuesday that Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin displayed “astonishingly weak” leadership in his comments about what happened at the Helsinki Summit. Golden, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, said Poliquin “fails to acknowledge that Russia poses a serious threat to American democracy, and American security interests abroad, particularly […]
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Donald Trump says he misspoke on Russia meddling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to “clarify” his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. “The sentence should have been, […]
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Paul LePage visits Montenegro but his office is mum on details
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is in Montenegro this week to commemorate a partnership between the Maine National Guard and the young Balkan nation. LePage arrived in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, on Sunday night and met Monday with President Milo Djukanovic as well as the country’s prime minister, the minister of defense, the secretary of state […]
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Republicans join Democrats in condemning Trump's remarks
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Bizarre.” ”Shameful.” ”Disgraceful.” That’s the swift and sweeping condemnation directed at President Donald Trump on Monday after he sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a stunning appearance in Helsinki — and that’s just from the Republicans. Lawmakers in both major parties and former intelligence officials appeared shocked, dismayed and uneasy with […]
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Maine’s delegation criticizes Trump for casting doubt about Russia’s role in election meddling
Members of Maine’s congressional delegation criticized President Trump on Monday after his much-anticipated summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during which Trump again downplayed Russia’s role in interfering with the 2016 election. Appearing side-by-side at a press conference following their closed two-hour meeting, Trump and Putin both cast doubt on what virtually all intelligence agencies […]
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Every current Supreme Court justice attended Harvard or Yale. Why that matters
WASHINGTON — It is not hard to see similarities between President Donald Trump’s last two Supreme Court nominees: They are both white male conservatives who attended Ivy League law schools, clerked for retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and went to the same exclusive private prep school. The elite background does not end with them. If […]
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Paul LePage defends hold up on public campaign funds
PORTLAND (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Friday defended his refusal to release over $1 million in overdue public campaign funds to more than 120 legislative candidates and one gubernatorial hopeful. LePage and his finance chief Alec Porteous argued in legal briefs that the courts can’t decide whether a governor should sign a financial […]
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says law enforcement plays critical role in opioid fight
Law enforcement has an important role to play in helping the nation respond to the opioid drug crisis, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday after a meeting in Portland with local law enforcement officials. “Enforcement of drug laws is never more important than now.” Sessions said in a press conference at the U.S. Attorney’s […]