PORTLAND — The lawmaker who introduced a bill designed to restrict wild foraging for food in Maine says he will call for the bill to not pass. Republican Sen. Thomas Saviello made a proposal to prohibit foraging food without getting permission from a property owner. The proposal’s up for a potential committee vote on Tuesday. Saviello […]
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Maine GOP hopes Trump administration will back food stamp restrictions
AUGUSTA — Maine resident Zak McCutcheon says he likes soda but acknowledges he’d drink less of it if his governor convinced Republican President Donald Trump to put restrictions on the approximately $200 a month he receives in food stamps. He thinks it may even make recipients healthier and less overweight. “If I was more restricted […]
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Trump administration pressures Russia to drop Assad support
Officials in the Trump administration on Sunday demanded Russia stop supporting the Syrian government or face a further deterioration in its relations with the United States. Signaling the focus of talks Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will have in Moscow later this week, officials said Russia, in propping up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bears at […]
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Bill would give parents money for home schooling, tuition
AUGUSTA — Legislators will consider a bill to give parents state money they can use for their children’s education outside of the public school system. Republican Rep. Jeffrey Hanley’s bill is set for a public hearing Monday. His bill would have the Treasurer of State direct 90 percent of a state subsidy for a child’s […]
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Eric Brakey sponsors bills to reform state general assistance program
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee will start to consider bills that would reform the state’s general assistance program. Maine towns each run a general assistance program that helps people lacking enough money to pay necessary expenses. The state reimburses the towns and cities for 70 percent of such benefits. LePage’s final two-year budget proposal would […]
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Neil Gorsuch takes 1st of 2 oaths to become Supreme Court justice
Visitors arrive at the Supreme Court as the Senate votes to confirm President Donald Trump’s high court nominee Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 7, 2017. WASHINGTON (AP) — Coverage of the swearing-in of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court (all times local): Updated 9:25 a.m.: Surrounded by family and his future colleagues, […]
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Did Russia take part in chemical weapons attack?
PALM BEACH, Fla. — The United States is looking into whether Russia participated in the Syrian chemical weapons attack that provoked President Donald Trump’s airstrikes against the Assad government, a revelation that could have dramatic implications for relations between Washington and Moscow. On Friday, senior U.S. military officials said a drone belonging to either Russia […]
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Bernie Sanders and Democrats coming to Maine on April 17
A national tour of Trump country by the new Democratic National Committee chairman and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will apparently kick off April 17 in Maine. The weeklong, multi-state tour is intended to begin to mend fences between the party and its grass roots in areas that voted for Republican President Donald Trump last year. The […]
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Analysis: Can the president attack another country without Congress?
President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida., on Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. WASHINGTON — The U.S. missile strikes Thursday on a Syrian air […]
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U.S. missiles kill 6 at Syrian military airfield
Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe explains why President Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian military airfield on April 6 and what this means for the fight against the Islamic State (Sarah Parnass, Julio Negron, The Washington Post). The U.S. military launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield late on Thursday, in […]