The lawsuit filed late Wednesday targets Google’s Play store, as Congress considers laws designed to break up or undermine the power amassed by Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
The toll compiled by Johns Hopkins University is about equal to the population of Los Angeles, and is widely believed to be an undercount.
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Four suspected assassins of Haiti’s president killed, 2 arrested, prime minister says
President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early Wednesday in an attack at his residence.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Activists call on Sen. Collins to support voting rights act
About 40 people gathered on the Portland City Hall plaza Wednesday night to voice support the For The People Act, which Collins voted against earlier this year.
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Study: Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change
‘This study is telling us climate change is killing people,’ says one global environvent expert.
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MLB notebook: Dodgers cancel Bauer’s bobblehead night, pull merchandise
Pasadena police and MLB are investigating allegations made by a Southern California woman who says the pitcher choked and punched her during two sexual encounters earlier this year.
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At age 23, Livermore woman is one of the youngest people to graduate law school in Maine
Mikala L. Holt was sworn in as a lawyer on June 30.
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As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge
California, with 40 million people, is posting only slightly higher case numbers than Missouri, which has a population of 6 million.
Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, News
No new murder trial for Sabattus man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend in 2005
A judge ruled that Danny Roberts’ murder conviction will stand despite new DNA evidence Roberts says supports his theory of the case.
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California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations
While California sterilized more than 20,000 people before its law was repealed in 1979, only a few hundred are still alive.