WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is preparing to face former Senate colleagues over his role in the controversy around ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, part of an escalating investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. Sessions is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence committee and was due […]
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By a single vote, House knocks out bill sought by pro-life activists
AUGUSTA — By a single vote, the House Friday opposed a measure that would allow the family of a viable fetus at least 24 weeks old who dies before birth to bring a wrongful death suit. Opponents worry the proposal is meant to jam a foot in the door by abortion foes in the hope […]
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Maine casino referendum attorneys refuse to accept ethics panel’s subpoenas
AUGUSTA — Attorneys for the backers of a York County casino referendum walked out of a hearing on Friday without accepting subpoenas for financial records after the state’s ethics watchdog voted to investigate them. The probe will focus on $4.3 million in campaign funds as of March’s end given to Lisa Scott, a Miami woman […]
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Theresa May vows to stay as UK prime minister, pursue Brexit
LONDON (AP) — Spectacularly punished by voters who took away her majority in Parliament, a politically wounded but defiant Theresa May soldiered on Friday as Britain’s prime minister, resisting pressure to resign after the failure of a high-stakes election gamble that made the massive challenge of untangling Britain from the European Union only more complex […]
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Susan Collins finds Comey credible but he shouldn’t have leaked memo
WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence committee says Congress should obtain any tapes that President Donald Trump might have of his conversations with the man he fired as FBI director — James Comey. Comey testified before that committee on Thursday, and Sen. Susan Collins tells MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she found him […]
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Angus King calls for release of Oval Office tapes, if they exist
A Maine senator called for the release of possible recordings that may be a simple way to determine whether President Donald Trump or the FBI director he fired is telling the truth about a strange Valentine’s Day meeting between the two men in the Oval Office. “Lordy, I hope there are tapes,” ex-FBI chief James […]
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Maine House upholds veto of bill to release $15M senior housing bonds
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine House has failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill aimed at forcing him to release $15 million in bonds for senior citizen housing that voters approved two years ago. The Maine House vote on Thursday was 89-58, short of the two-thirds necessary to overturn the veto. That followed […]
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Feds want Maine to pay back $51 million in Riverview funds
AUGUSTA — A federal health care watchdog has again found fault with Maine’s treatment of people with acute mental illness at the Riverview Psychiatric Center, ordering that the state repay $51 million in federal aid. Gov. Paul LePage announced Thursday that the state will appeal the decision, calling it a “financial tsunami.” At issue is […]
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U.S. House to vote on sweeping rollback of Dodd-Frank banking rules
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday is preparing to vote on sweeping legislation to roll back Wall Street regulations. The bill, introduced by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, offers the country’s nearly 6,000 banks a choice: If they want to avoid many of the regulatory burdens imposed during the Obama administration, they must significantly increase their […]
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Live Video: James Comey testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee
#ComeyTestimony Tweets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”); WASHINGTON (AP) — In a hugely anticipated hearing, fired FBI director James Comey will recount a series of conversations with President Donald Trump that he says made him deeply uneasy and concerned about the blurring of boundaries between the White House and a law enforcement agency that prides itself on independence. […]