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Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison
The lawyer said he's scheduled to meet with Weinstein on Monday. He added that he plans to tell a judge when Weinstein goes to court on Wednesday in Manhattan that a retrial should occur after Labor Day.
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Police who rushed to Baltimore bridge collapse focus on victims
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Agony over ecstasy: FDA bid shows it’s hard to test psychedelics
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Trump on trial: Personal anguish, political defiance and a loss of control
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Russian missiles strike Ukrainian power plants in new blow to infrastructure
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at 1:09 PMThe most optimistic portions of of a day-long session by the University of Pennsylvania came as the ex-lawmakers discussed how some minor changes that require no political risk could start to create better incentives for a more productive legislature.
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at 12:08 PMEarly Saturday, police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston while several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance, but the scene was otherwise not confrontational.
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at 1:18 PMThe Houthis said they shot down the Predator with a surface-to-air missile, part of a renewed series of assaults this week by the rebels after a relative lull in their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
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at 11:57 AMSean “Diddy” Combs has pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault
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at 11:52 AMBiden won independents over in 2020, the first Democrat to win Arizona’s presidential contest this century.
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at 10:49 AMThe week began with a moment for the history books, with prosecutors for the first time presenting a jury with a criminal case against a former American president.
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at 12:45 PMIt was not immediately clear whether Israel’s latest response to Hamas on a cease-fire was directly related to Friday’s visit to Tel Aviv by Egyptian mediators.
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at 10:07 AMA tornado has plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions.
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April 26A hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors have collectively made millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of Donald Trump's Truth Social will keep dropping despite massive buying by his loyalists.
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April 26The decision infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could help the president avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November.
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April 26More than a dozen tents and more than 100 people filled the middle of Polk Place, the central quad on the main part of campus. The tents were decorated with signs reading 'Gaza solidarity encampment' and 'free Palestine,' among other sayings.
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April 26The bill would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to enter into contract with labor unions.
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April 26The protest kicked off a day of drama at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po.
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April 26The announcement after 2 days of exhaustive negotiations comes as Columbia's president faces harsh criticism from faculty.
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April 26A Colorado judge has sentenced former paramedic Jeremy Cooper to probation. He had faced up to 3 years in prison for his conviction of criminally negligent homicide.
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April 26The 75-year-old monarch has taken a 3-month break from the public eye to focus on his treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer.
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at 10:19 AMEleven communal office companies – including 6 in southern Maine – were awarded a total of $500,000 as part of the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan.
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April 26Officials in Augusta want to consider prohibiting or regulating a cannabis extraction process that uses flammable materials.
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April 26The new funding – the largest tranche of USAI aid sent to date – also includes the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, as well as Switchblade and Puma drones, counter-drone systems and artillery.
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April 26The restaurant, displaced by a fire in 2021, had faced operational difficulties this winter because of the chef's ongoing medical crisis.
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at 10:07 AMCoffee By Design and baristas who are a part of Local 327 of the Laborers' International Union of North America have reached an agreement that includes 2 pay increases within a year.
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April 26The bill aimed to reduce the tax burden for middle-income residents while also raising taxes on the wealthy, but Gov. Janet Mills said it would not provide meaningful relief and could create challenges for state budgeting.
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April 26The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has concerns about changes Tesla made to the driver assistance system as part of a December recall.
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April 26Ancora Holdings Group is pushing for a new CEO at Norfolk Southern – but not because it wants the railroad to spend more on safety initiatives.
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April 26Much of the money is going to new data centers, which are predicted to place huge demands on an already-strained U.S. power grid.
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April 26With President Biden signing a bill that could ban TikTok, groups such as GriefTok and DeafTok fear they’ll lose an inimitable source of comfort and connection.
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April 26Most economists say the underlying momentum of the U.S. economy remains strong. But growth and jobs – which have been surprisingly sturdy – have generated little tangible benefit to Biden’s hopes for reelection.
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April 26In a last-minute deal and after a jury already had reached a verdict, Damion Butterfield pleaded guilty last year to murder in Derald Coffin's fatal shooting.
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April 26Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on 3 charges of producing child porn and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.
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April 26Maine state House majority leader Maureen Terry says if Nebraska tries to help Donald Trump, Maine may act to boost Joe Biden
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April 26One of the demands of anti-war protestors on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
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April 26David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness stand for a fourth day.
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April 26The newly signed law, which the governor proposed in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting, expands requirements for background checks to include private, advertised sales and also updates the existing yellow flag law.
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April 26A 53-year-old woman from Albion was killed in the 4-vehicle pileup that brought southbound traffic to a standstill Friday morning.
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April 26Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, got a mixed welcome before speaking to party faithful, many of whom displayed support for former President Donald Trump.
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April 26A report released Friday by the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development says the state has hit some of its 2030 targets but has fallen short of 'where we need to be.'
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April 26The Manhattan district attorney's office isn't giving up, which means his accusers could be forced to retell their stories on the witness stand.
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April 25Roughly 300 people assembled to celebrate the lives of the 18 people killed in the Oct. 25 shooting at Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar & Grille.
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April 25Reginald Collins, 59, turned himself in Wednesday after learning there was a warrant for his arrest.
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April 26Moving the station from its current location at Thompson's Point would reduce travel time and improve efficiency of the Downeaster service between Boston and Brunswick.
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April 25The law, a watered-down version of the original legislation, requires health care facilities to post signs to let patients know that facility fees are being charged.
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Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia.
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April 25Travel to the state during the shoulder seasons accounted for 44% of the visitors, up 3.4 percentage points from 2022, according to a report from the Maine Office of Tourism.
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April 25A senior U.S. military official said Thursday the U.S. is on track to begin delivering aid using the new port and pier by early May.
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April 25It's hoped that political change will help quell the gang violence that has killed thousands.
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April 25The bill mirrors almost the same language from a so-called “anti-abortion trafficking” proposal Tennessee Republican lawmakers approved just a day prior.
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April 25Protests against the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread; dozens of students are arrested on other campuses.
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April 25The park has been closed to the public since the Dec. 18 flood, which damaged the park's bandstand and washed away benches and chunks of earth.
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April 25A group of emergency medical personnel challenged the 2021 vaccine mandate, but the Maine Supreme Judicial Court says a state board had full authority to impose the rule.
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April 25A project to improve water quality for years to come at the popular lake is going swimmingly, the Worromontogus Lake Association reports.
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April 25Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan says the new rules are targeting pollution that's 'pushing our planet to the brink.'
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April 25The former New York Yankee performed a work he composed in his second career as a classical guitarist.
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April 25For all the ridicule the tabloid received from “serious” journalists, Enquirer reporters hustled and broke some genuine news.
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April 25The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration; under then-President Donald Trump, the FCC subsequently repealed those rules in 2017.
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April 25The decision came as Trump, the presumed Republican candidate for president, spent the day in a criminal courtroom where he is on trial for hush money payments.
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April 26The legislation that U.S. President Biden signed this week could allow Washington to widen its scope to target other China-related apps, such as the popular e-commerce platform Temu.
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at 10:17 AMMake Portland Chowderfest, a songwriters night at Cadenza in Freeport and the Portland Farmers' Market all part of your plans.
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April 25Pending PUC approval, the ferry service will increase single, round-trip ticket prices 82% on June 1, while lowering prices for longer-term passes, benefiting residents and people who work on the islands.
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April 26The justices on Thursday took up for the first time whether a former president has absolute immunity from criminal charges for actions he took while in office.