President Donald Trump selected Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new national security adviser. Trump announced the pick Monday at his Palm Beach club. He said Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg will serve as the National Security Council chief of staff. (Feb. 20) More: Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is a soldier-scholar
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Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is a soldier-scholar
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has chosen as his national security adviser a soldier-scholar who fought in both Iraq wars and wrote an influential book that called out the U.S. government for “lies” that led to the Vietnam War. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster would remain on active military duty while leading the National Security […]
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Legislature launches inquiry into Maine PowerOptions electricity program
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously Friday to launch a preliminary inquiry into Maine PowerOptions, a little-known quasi-state program that brings together hundreds of municipalities and school districts to help them buy electricity. The lawmakers’ call for an investigation follows a story last month by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting […]
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Donald Trump taps Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as national security adviser
President Donald Trump, right, listens as Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, left, talks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, where Trump announced that McMaster will be the new national security adviser.Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump makes the announcement at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm […]
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White House gears up to move past controversies, toward legislating
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump begins his second month in office, his team is trying to move past the crush of controversies that overtook his first month and make progress on health care and tax overhauls long sought by Republicans. Both issues thrust Trump, a real estate executive who has never held elected office, […]
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis tells Iraqis that U.S. will stay a while
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, center, arrives at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, on an unannounced trip Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Mattis said Monday the United States does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by President Donald Trump that has rattled Iraq’s leaders. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, […]
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Drugs vanish at some Veterans Affairs hospitals
The Veterans Affairs Department in Washington. Federal authorities are stepping up investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers due to a sharp increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions or unauthorized drug use by VA employees since 2009, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are stepping up investigations […]
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Donald Trump explains what happened in Sweden
HELSINKI — Swedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing President Donald Trump’s remarks that suggested a major incident had happened in the Scandinavian country. The American president now says he was referring to something he saw on television. During a rally in Florida on Saturday, Trump said “look what’s happening last night in Sweden” […]
