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Woman charged in theft of Pelosi’s laptop during Capitol riot
The FBI says Riley June Williams, 22, appears to have recorded and shared a video of another person lifting a computer off a desk.
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New England
New Hampshire state lawmaker loses committee seats over tweet about rioters
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Obituaries
Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77
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News
Flu cases in Maine have decreased significantly as people take COVID precautions
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Arts & Entertainment
Secret Service investigated John Mulaney for Trump jokes in ‘SNL’ monologue
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Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency has erased dozens of public health and environmental protections.
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7 mins agoThe Municipal Review Committee, which represents the solid waste interests of 115 Maine municipalities, held a virtual town hall meeting Tuesday to announce Delta Thermo Energy Inc. as the prospective buyer for the Hampden plant.
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40 mins agoCity Hall announced the closed-door session after the Press Herald reported that Portland's program is the only one in Maine to disregard public health guidelines and keep strict rules for syringe exchanges in place during the pandemic.
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at 3:32 PMThe president also has been using his final days in office to issue steady a stream of executive orders as he tries to lock in initiatives that President-elect Joe Biden is likely to ignore.
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at 3:02 PMU.S. defense officials have been worried about a potential insider attack or other threat from service members following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 by Trump supporters that shocked the nation.
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at 2:21 PMOn his way out the door, Pompeo made the determination just 24 hours before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
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at 2:09 PMThe nation’s leading standardized testing organization also said it was developing a more flexible SAT that would be digital.
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at 5:58 PMPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take part in an evening ceremony at the Reflecting Pool to honor the nearly 400,000 American lives lost to COVID-19.
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at 1:28 PMRepublican senators, in particular, face a daunting choice of whether to convict Donald Trump of inciting the insurrection, the first impeachment trial of a president no longer in office.
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at 5:46 PMLawmakers are urging Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sauschuck to put Capitol Police Chief Russell Gauvin on administrative leave after a series of social media posts.
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at 11:20 AMJoin us Friday, March 12 at 1:00 p.m. when Lisa DeSisto sits down with Joan Ferrini-Mundy of University of Maine.
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41 mins agoThe latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
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at 8:55 AMOvershadowing everything at the very start is Biden's effort to win congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion plan to combat the coronavirus and the economic misery it has caused.
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45 mins agoThe problem happened during packaging or shipping, but replacement doses were on the way to Maine, says Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC.
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at 8:40 AMThe document warned that 'lone wolves' and QAnon conspiracy theorists, some of whom participated in the violent siege on the Capitol , have indicated that they plan to come to Washington.
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Birth announcements for Jan. 19.
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Brief listings for Jan. 19.
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at 12:31 AMRiley June Williams was arrested Monday in her home state of Pennsylvania, the Justice Department said late Monday.
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January 18On average, the state has had about 500 deaths and 40,000 new cases daily for the past two weeks.
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January 18At stake in several states including Maine are the rules governing school voucher programs and whether some students and certain types of private schools can be excluded from the programs.
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at 12:17 AMWith overdose deaths on record pace during the pandemic, city officials are urged to take advantage of state waivers intended to ensure that drug users have access to clean needles and overdose reversal drugs.
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Three extremist groups have drawn the most attention from the feds as they seek to avoid inauguration violence: the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.
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January 18Criticized for acceding to President Trump's demand for citizenship information at the expense of data quality, Steven Dillingham says he will resign Wednesday.
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Some people think they have too much home equity or too much savings to qualify.
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January 18The online ceremony included prerecorded remarks by President-elect Joe Biden.
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January 18The proposal, expected to be sent to Congress on Inauguration Day, also includes addressing the root causes of migration from Central America.
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January 18‘You would not believe the lack of progress,’ he says in the message. ‘It makes me physically sick.’
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One poor country has so far just given out 25 doses, he says.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pitch in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects.
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January 18Interviews with members of the U.S. Capitol Police show just how quickly the command structure collapsed on Jan. 6.
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The overall U.S. toll barrels toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
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The man, who is a member of 'Texas Freedom Force,' a militia extremist group, remained in federal custody on Monday.
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at 8:30 AMSome answers to a few common questions on Maine's COVID-19 vaccination campaign ahead of additional details expected to be released by the Mills administration this week.
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at 7:47 AMThe Criminal Justice Commission on Mitigation of Pandemic Impact has issued a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the overload on the state's court system.
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January 18A Boston woman who traveled to the United Kingdom tested positive after feeling ill the day after she returned.
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January 18
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Despite the 9.8 million jobs lost due to the coronavirus, there are signs the country is on the cusp of a kind of boom unseen in the Obama and Trump eras.
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January 18Proponents say the deal could allow Israel to become the first country to vaccinate most of its population, while providing valuable research that could help the rest of the world, but critics say the deal raises major ethical concerns.
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January 18Lanny Dellinger, 12, of Winslow was hanging on to ice to keep his head above water when first responders with wetsuits on freed him.
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Much of the protected land is at the top of West Mountain.
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January 18The hot-air dirigible made its debut during a protest of Trump’s first visit to the United Kingdom.
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January 18Bobi Wine, who took 34 percent of the vote in last week's presidential election, has rejected the official outcome as fraudulent and insists he will use all legal means to protest the allegedly 'cooked-up' results.
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January 18A daylong webinar series explores racial equity in Maine; Gov. Janet Mills and other elected officials honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 18A source told the FBI that Riley June Williams intended to send the device to a friend in Russia who planned to sell it to that country's foreign intelligence service, but that plan fell through and she either has the device or destroyed it.
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January 18Jeanne Pouchain has a problem. She's officially dead even though she's very much alive.
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January 18The words 'Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit' appeared on the transition briefing note for Jan. 20 – Inauguration Day.
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January 18Such vetting for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration would involve running people's names through databases and watchlists maintained by the FBI.
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January 18Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is buying Donald and Bertha Maxim's 170-acre farm on the Gordon Hill Road.
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January 18Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she becomes the nation’s first female vice president — and the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that office
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January 18Among the dead was a U.S. citizen, Saeed Baraka, from Atlanta, who was visiting family in Darfur.
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January 18President-elect Joe Biden will take the stage for his inaugural address at perhaps the most difficult starting point for a president since Franklin Roosevelt began his first term.
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January 18The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
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January 18The anti-vaccine groups are ramping up their tactics and messaging at a moment when more and more Americans are searching for accurate information about the coronavirus vaccine.
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at 6:15 AMMajor health care networks say vaccine clinics are imminent, as the state reports 317 new cases and three more deaths.
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January 18In the past week, Trump has been consumed with the question of whether to issue preemptive pardons to his adult children, top aides and himself.
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January 18The best strategy for those working from home is to try to recoup added expenses from your employer, says one local tax expert.
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Racial-justice activists have fought similar battles in King's time and today; for that reason, his most famous speeches are still relevant.
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January 18Black Mainers reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.