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Supporting nonprofits on GivingTuesday this year could have bigger impact than usual
Many organizations anticipate falling financial support this year.
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November 27Democratic President Biden's campaign cast his comments as another 'extremist' proposal from the Republican frontrunner.
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November 27The White House said it was sending a climate team, including Special Envoy John Kerry, to the talks, which start Thursday.
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Luxon has promised to deliver tax cuts and train 500 more police officers within two years.
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Mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits.
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One juvenile suspect is in custody, officials said Monday afternoon.
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The mountainous terrain proved too much for a drilling machine, which broke down repeatedly before it was damaged irreparably on Friday.
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53 mins agoThe city says the new shelter, providing housing for up to 179 people, will open up about 120 beds at the Homeless Services Center and hopefully get people off the streets.
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November 27Two adults were found dead in a home Monday afternoon, police said.
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November 27An Israeli government spokesperson declined to say whether Musk was invited to the country, where he toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas militants, or came on his own.
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This time, he will be questioned by his defense team.
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Rapper Young Thug's racketeering trial got underway Monday. Here's what you need to know about the trial and opening statements.
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Nearly 9,000 private schools in Louisiana don’t need state approval to grant degrees.
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November 27About 3 in 4 human resources representatives say that retaining employees who don’t want to work in the office is a problem – including 19% who call it a 'major problem.'
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Doritos Silent is a crunch cancellation software that removes the sound of chewing from voice chat, Zoom or any call that uses headphones.
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at 7:23 AMKaitlynn Buck's attorney wrote in court papers that his client had bought four pistols in exchange for drugs.
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Kyle Hendrickson was accused of posting a video with a gun outside Portsmouth High School in which he threatened to 'shoot up the school.'
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at 12:16 AMMichael Willett, 69, of Denmark and Aremean Mayo, 93, were found dead on Saturday in the home they shared with Tzara Jones, 53, who has been charged with 2 counts of murder.
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November 27To find an Affordable Care Act plan, visit www.CoverME.gov.
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November 27Maine's 1st District congresswoman has submitted an amendment to shorten the waiting period for work permits, and Maine's senior senator is pressing for a similar provision in the Senate.
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November 27The incident is one of a recent string of crackdowns on the press, and even though most recent cases have been dismissed or dropped, such actions could deter other reporters from pursuing important stories.
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November 27Authorities have not yet determined what caused the unrelated fires, or the identity of the person who died in Sanford.
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November 27Lorenze A. Labonte, 25, is accused of killing Ahmed Sharif, 27, of Lewiston, on Friday.
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at 6:38 AMNorth River Co. plans to transform the former Lockwood Mill at 6 Water St. into 65 affordable apartments and some commercial space as part of the $40 million project.
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November 27City Manager Gary Lamb was reprimanded in a letter from the City Council for his initial response to a complaint brought by the Hallowell Pride Alliance about the Fire Department's not providing traffic and safety coverage for the group's annual parade.
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The president used the council meeting to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data as well as other programs tied to the production and shipment of goods.
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The grain traverses a fledgling shipping corridor launched after Russia pulled out of a U.N.-brokered agreement this summer that allowed food to flow safely from Ukraine during the war.
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November 27Life saving measures were used but were unsuccesful in reviving Levi Jewell, 29, who was walking in the same direction as traffic.
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November 27A judge rejected the first attempt at a deal between the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services and the ACLU of Maine.
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November 27Lookups for the word 'authentic' are routinely heavy on the dictionary company's site but were boosted to new heights throughout this year.
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November 27Todd Landry, whose leadership had been questioned by lawmakers, cited "personal reasons" for his resignation, which is effective immediately.
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November 27The newly released hostages included 3 women and 9 children – including 3-year-old twin girls and their mother – from a kibbutz near Gaza that was hard hit in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
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November 27Despite the decline, new-home sales have generally been rising for the past year as elevated borrowing costs discourage homeowners from moving.
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November 27Late Monday, 11 Israelis were released to the International Committee of the Red Cross and 33 Palestinians were returned to their families in the occupied West Bank.
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November 27Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday the Justice Department is investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime.
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The performance Saturday kept the Merrill Auditorium audience rapt.
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November 27Most of the outages were reported in coastal towns, where winds gusted to 40 mph.
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Tanbark Molded Fiber Products in Saco is making clamshell containers for Luke's Lobster shacks with pulp from Maine trees, the latest reinvention of the state's legacy industry.
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Lauren Steidl and Ian Andolsek, both 29, are among the founders of Integrated Reality Labs, the extended-reality gaming company behind the new game, called Slap.
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The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy says a recent study found 45% of 127 medical cannabis samples failed testing that is mandatory for the recreational market.
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November 26The dry stretch of weather in Maine is about to come to an end.
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November 26Authorities on Sunday continued to search for suspects in the Friday death of a 27-year-old Lewiston man.
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As the war in Ukraine grinds into its second winter, audio intercepts obtained and verified by The Associated Press indicate that a growing number of Russian soldiers want out.
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November 26Small cities and towns face many challenges when it comes to applying for grants, including being unaware of the programs in the first place.
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November 26The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third-party and long-shot candidates. Their odds are exceedingly long.
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November 26Paul Harding's 'This Other Eden' was also nominated for a National Book Award.
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November 26Tzara Jones, 53, of Denmark, was arrested Sunday in connection with the deaths of two people Saturday, state police said.
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November 26Koleman Kroesser, 17, has donated food and his time to the Richmond Food Pantry since he was in 8th grade and as he nears the end of the year, he wants to donate 3,000 lbs. of food.
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November 26Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strikes damaged three unspecified buildings, adding that no one was hurt.
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November 26The remains of one man were found in a makeshift tent in Sanford on Saturday, while Portland police discovered a body inside a burning tent near Marginal Way on Sunday.
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November 26Two of the men are in stable condition and the other suffered “much more serious injuries,” Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said in a news release Sunday.
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November 26Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years.
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November 26The president described the negotiations as a day-by-day, hour-by-hour process and said he would continue working until all hostages were free.
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November 26The meta-horror hit’s studio, Spyglass Media Group, clarified the decision to fire 33-year-old Barrera was not linked to her direct support of Palestine, but the comments she made veered into antisemitic territory.
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November 26Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here’s why that makes a deal so toughA small, bipartisan group in the Senate is taking the lead and working to find a narrow compromise that can overcome a likely filibuster by winning 60 votes.
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November 26On March 17, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Putin and his commissioner for children's rights, which accused them of war crimes for unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children.
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November 26For Dr. Le Roy Ladurie, who died Nov. 22 in Paris at 94, the withering persecution of Cathars, a Gnostic splinter group, became a landmark study in ways to reexamine history from the streets and alleys and taverns.
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November 26Travelers get a taste of the work that goes into producing some of the world's top extra virgin olive oil, while providing an alternate source of revenue for farmers whose earnings suffered from rising production costs and effects of climate change.
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November 26Johnson was joined by the U.K.'s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and other senior government officials at the march to express solidarity with the Jewish community.
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November 26From the start, Hamas vowed to destroy Israel, while the Israeli prime minister vowed to destroy Hamas. What happened instead was a decade and a half of uneasy coexistence.
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November 26The pair were honored with a Daytime Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2018. They got their Walk of Fame star two years later.