WASHINGTON (AP) — Government efforts to protect state and local elections from Russian cyberattacks in 2016 didn’t go far enough, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday as the panel released recommendations to safeguard against foreign meddling in the 2018 primary season that’s already underway. Federal warnings last time did not provide enough information or in […]
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Maine regulators vote to open full investigation of CMP bills
Unable after a three-week, preliminary inquiry to explain why more than 1,000 Central Maine Power customers have received inexplicably high electric bills this winter, the Maine Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to launch a full investigation. The broader probe will be conducted in tandem with the ongoing inquiry underway by the PUC’s staff. No precise timeline was […]
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Facebook’s rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica
Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign’s data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent. But thousands of other developers, including the makers of games such as FarmVille and the dating app Tinder, as well as political consultants from President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, also siphoned […]
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Paul LePage to reopen Downeast prison with minimal inmates, staff
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Corrections will reopen the Downeast Correctional Facility “with minimal staff and a minimal number of inmates” by week’s end in response to a court order, the LePage administration announced Monday. Gov. Paul LePage said he met with Corrections Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick on Monday morning to discuss the issue, less […]
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Immigration, health care and a tunnel are obstacles to passing $1.3 trillion spending bill
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators struggled to finalize a $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the government running, with several thorny issues such as health care and immigration still unresolved ahead of an end-of-week deadline. Despite hopes of reaching a deal Monday, leaders had not wrapped up the bill as of Tuesday morning. The “omnibus” spending […]
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Bill to save Maine child abuse prevention program attracts bipartisan support
AUGUSTA — A bill that would save a $2.2 million child abuse prevention program is making its way through the Legislature, after the deaths of two Maine girls from child abuse in the last four months. The LePage administration had announced in February that it would end the prevention program in September. Rep. Pinny Beebe-Center, […]
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Donald Trump tells Susan Collins he supports health subsidies in budget bill
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump assured two Senate Republicans in a weekend conference call that he wants tens of billions of dollars to lower health-care premiums included in a must-pass spending bill. Trump made the commitment related to payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act in an hour-long Saturday call with Sens. Lamar Alexander, […]
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Hillary Clinton says she meant no disrespect by comments about white women who voted for Trump
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she did not mean to offend Trump-supporting white women when she repeated findings suggesting that many of them took their voting cues from their husbands. But, Clinton said, she deeply believes that some women did not support her because of her gender. She wrote in a Saturday Facebook […]
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Feeling misunderstood, even demonized, 5 Maine gun owners speak out
On Thursday, 19 of 21 students in Carter Barthelman’s environmental science class stood up and walked silently out the doors of South Portland High School. They joined about 500 students – more than half of the student body – in a protest against gun violence. Young people led nearly 3,000 similar demonstrations across the country […]
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White House says Donald Trump isn't considering firing Mueller
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not considering firing the special counsel investigating Russian election interference, a top White House lawyer said, after a cascade of Trump tweets revived chatter that the deeply frustrated president may be preparing to get rid of the veteran prosecutor. The late-Sunday statement from White House lawyer Ty Cobb […]