September 2018
Remembering victims of Maine’s opioid crisis
Evangeline White of Bangor overdosed on opioids twice, and twice her overdose was reversed by naloxone, a drug that helps revive people long enough for them to get help. After years of struggling with addiction, Evangeline is now on the road to recovery and Friday evening in Bangor, as part of International Overdose Awareness Day, […]
Mr. Trump’s good friend Jeff
Along with his many other daily Tweet targets, President Trump can’t stop beating up on Jeff Sessions for being a lousy attorney general. When it comes to Sessions, the president leaves no petty pebble un-thrown. This week, Trump supposedly was heard telling his aides that he didn’t like Sessions’ Alabama accent or the fact that […]
Letters
PETA’s misplaced agenda PETA, in its never-ending quest to tell people what to eat, should instead worry about people without enough to eat. The volunteers in Receiving at the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program spend half a day, six days a week sorting through a bunch of vegetables and could sure use some help. The […]
Kavanaugh pledges to be ‘team player’ on Court
WASHINGTON Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh promised today to be a “team player” if confirmed to the closely divided court, declaring that he will be a “pro-law judge” who won’t decide cases based on his personal views. With Republicans hoping to move the Supreme Court to the right for years to come, President Donald Trump’s […]
Trump: Sessions put GOP at risk in midterms
WASHINGTON Showing his disregard for the Justice Department’s independence, President Donald Trump tweeted that federal indictments against two Republican congressmen placed the GOP in midterm election jeopardy. Trump again attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the tweet suggesting that the Justice Department consider politics when making decisions: “Obama era investigations, of two very popular Republican […]
After Rio museum blaze, Brazil seeks what is lost
RIO DE JANEIRO Forensic investigators and researchers awaited access Tuesday to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, gutted in a fire, to find out how the blaze began and what remains of the 20 million artifacts that made the museum one of the most important in Latin America. After a fire tore through the […]
China’s leader Xi visit looms over N.K. anniversary
BEIJING (AP) — As North Korea celebrates a major anniversary this weekend, the presence — or absence — of Chinese President Xi Jinping could highlight just how much vitality has been restored to ties between Pyongyang and its most powerful backer after a prolonged chill. A visit by Xi to North Korea for the 70th […]
Taliban say founder of Haqqani network dies in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD The founder of Afghanistan’s much-feared Haqqani network, a former U.S. ally turned fierce enemy, has died after years of ill-health, a Taliban spokesman said today. Jalaluddin Haqqani was 71. Haqqani died Monday inside Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahed told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. The elderly founder of the outlawed Afghanistan-based organization, once hailed […]
New Yorker drops plans to interview Bannon
NEW YORK Facing widespread outrage, The New Yorker has dropped plans to interview Steve Bannon during its festival next month. New Yorker editor David Remnick told The Associated Press in a statement shared Monday with the magazine’s staff that he had changed his mind. The former Donald Trump aide and ex-chairman of Breitbart News was […]