WASHINGTON — The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They’re still using floppy disks at the Pentagon. In a report released Wednesday, nonpartisan congressional investigators found that about three-fourths of the $80 billion budget goes to keep aging technology running, and the […]
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State Department report criticizes Hillary Clinton for email use
Hillary Clinton’s Email Controversy | Graphiq WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton disregarded various State Department guidelines for avoiding cybersecurity risks, an internal audit found Wednesday. The inspector general’s 78-page analysis, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, cites “longstanding, systemic weaknesses” related to the agency’s communications. These started before Clinton’s appointment as secretary […]
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Anti-Trump protestors clash with police in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In one of the presidential campaign year’s more grisly spectacles, protesters in New Mexico opposing Donald Trump’s candidacy threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades. Police responded by firing pepper spray and smoke grenades into the crowd outside the Albuquerque […]
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Voters have until Friday to switch parties for June primaries
AUGUSTA — Republican, Democratic or Green Independent voters who want to switch parties have until Friday to do so if they intend to vote in Maine’s June primaries for another party’s candidate, according to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap. In a news release Monday, Dunlap said state law requires a 15-day waiting period after a […]
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Head of TSA security operations removed from position
WASHINGTON — A House committee said Monday that the head of security operations at the Transportation Security Administration has been replaced. “Kelly Hoggan has been removed from his position as head of security at TSA,” the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform posted on Twitter. Meanwhile, The Associated Press obtained a memo sent by […]
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Trump, Sanders move politics leftward
The upshot of the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump phenomena is that both parties are moving to the left. Sanders’ and Trump’s styles and affects are very different — the rumpled, oddball lecturer in Socialism 101 vs. the boastful, power-tie-wearing business mogul — but they have worked in tandem to ensure that the center of […]
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Federal judge rules Portland can’t try to quiet down abortion protesters
PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge says Portland cannot use its noise law to restrict anti-abortion protesters outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen ruled Monday in favor of a Lewiston pastor who contended he was unlawfully targeted because of his views. Andrew March filed the lawsuit after a member of his […]
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Portland lawmakers ask LePage to apologize to Deering High School
LEWISTON — Republican Gov. Paul LePage declined Monday to apologize for comments he made about a Deering High School student repeatedly being treated with the heroin antidote Narcan. Senate Democrats have asked LePage to apologize for comments he made at a town hall meeting in Lewiston earlier this month. The governor had said that a junior at the […]
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Donald, Hillary and the Bernie factor
WASHINGTON — Among the abundant ironies of this election cycle, there is this: We are now in the eighth year of the most liberal administration since Lyndon Johnson’s. The primary elections reveal a national mood of anxiety, apprehension and anger, in turn reflecting stagnation at home and failure abroad. Two-thirds of Americans think the country […]
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Hillary’s viral nightmare
WASHINGTON — You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.” Or, perhaps, that it’s hell to have a public record. Either way, Hillary Clinton’s vast resume of, shall we say, inconsistencies, is the dog that caught the car and won’t let go. A viral video collection of her comments on various […]