WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, portrayed in a new book as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office, took to Twitter on Saturday to defend his mental fitness and boast about his intelligence, saying he is “like, really smart” and “a very stable genius.” He posted a series of tweets from […]
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Transgender activist hopes to win U.S. House seat
Danielle VanHelsing hopes to become the first transgender member of Congress. The 35-year-old group home worker from Sangerville said it would benefit the entire country if voters tapped a transgender politician for a position as highly visible as a U.S. House seat. “Change doesn’t happen sitting in the dark,” VanHelsing said. “Seeing we can be […]
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Poliquin lays out his legislative agenda for the new year
Heading into what might be a tough re-election fight, U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin plans to pursue an agenda this year with a clear appeal to the moderate Mainers who may decide his fate. The 2nd District Republican said “one of my top priorities” is to crack down on sexual harassment on Capitol Hill. Poliquin said […]
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Donald Trump feud with Steve Bannon lays bare new fissure in fractious GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acrimony surrounding former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s very public break with President Donald Trump escalated Thursday, suggesting a permanent split between the president and the pugilistic strategist who helped put him in the Oval Office. The new fissure in an already fractious Republican Party cast doubt on Bannon’s hopes to […]
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Paul LePage spending welfare dollars on after-school programs
Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is spending $1.7 million of federal welfare dollars on after-school programs. The Bangor Daily News reports over a dozen nonprofit organizations received funding this year from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families grant. Since 2015, Maine’s asked such after-school programs to show how they help prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies and encourage […]
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Trump asked White House lawyer to urge Sessions not to step aside from Russia probe
WASHINGTON — At the behest of President Donald Trump, the White House’s top lawyer called Attorney General Jeff Sessions shortly before he recused himself from the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and tried to convince him not to do so, according to two people familiar with the discussions. By then, one […]
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Maine hiring more public health nurses
Maine’s public health nursing workforce will more than double in the coming months and take on expanded duties — such as responding to the opioid crisis, according to the commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. The public health nursing staff — front-line nurses who respond to infectious disease outbreaks and perform […]
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Jeff Sessions' policy could kill buzz around Maine’s legal marijuana industry
Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country Thursday, a move that could throw Maine’s legal marijuana industry into a tailspin. In a memo, Sessions announced a “return to the rule of law” and directed Department of Justice attorneys to enforce […]
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Trump attorney seeks to stop ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’
WASHINGTON — A lawyer representing President Donald Trump sought Thursday to stop the publication of a new behind-the-scenes book about the White House that has already led Trump to angrily decry his former chief strategist Stephen Bannon. The legal notice — addressed to author Michael Wolff and the president of the book’s publisher — said Trump’s […]
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Donald Trump may allow offshore drilling off Maine coast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades. The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil […]