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Most of the legislation is in direct response to actions by Trump that Democrats saw as abuses of presidential power, including his firing of agency whistleblowers, his defiance of congressional subpoenas and his campaign’s interactions with Russians in the 2016 election. -
President Biden is facing a healthy measure of skepticism from allies during his week of high-level diplomacy as he summons allies to quickly address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.
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LePage, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2019, will formally announce his challenge of incumbent Gov. Janet Mills during a rally at the Augusta Civic Center on Wednesday.
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Once a routine matter, now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to provide Republican votes, even though he also relied on Democratic votes help raise the debt ceiling when his party had the majority.
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Physician Alan Braid admitted to performing an abortion that is illegal under the Texas law.
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Kennebec County's second largest city has become a focal point as Democrats and Republicans work to rebalance districts based on the latest U.S. Census figures.
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Congress must fund the government in the next 10 days, or risk a federal shutdown.
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The District 2 councilor was previously a senior adviser for the Biden-Harris campaign in Maine. His new position will be in the Department of Energy.
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After the FDA approved a third shot of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for high-risk people, recipients of the other vaccines are "understandably feeling left out," said chief pandemic medical adviser Anthony Fauci.
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Dental work for Medicare recipients is just one of the changes to health care that Democrats want to achieve with President Joe Biden's massive "Build Back Better" plan.
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The hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.
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Solidarity is the route to success on the $3.5 trillion proposed bill to help families and curb global warming – but it's elusive.
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Proposals by Republicans and Democrats to redraw Maine's 2 congressional districts and 35 state Senate districts are criticized for lacking details to show voters how boundaries would shift.
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Parents of students with health conditions argued that the governor's executive order endangered their children and hurt their ability to attend in-person classes.
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The indictment accuses Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI when he was questioned about a September 2016 conversation he had with the FBI’s general counsel.
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Nebraska's Republican-controlled legislature is considering changes to the congressional map that would give them an edge in a competitive congressional seat — and the presidential election
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Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who once had a bright political future, cites his two young children for his decision and notes ‘the chaotic political environment that currently infects our country.’
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Maine Sen. Angus King and Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said a patchwork of state laws was proving costly for businesses.
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The indictment accuses Michael Sussmann of hiding that he was working with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign during a September 2016 conversation he had with the FBI’s general counsel,
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Maps showing how Republicans and Democrats want to change Maine's two U.S. Congressional districts and 35 state Senate districts were released late Thursday for voters to contemplate.
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The result could offer a road map for other governors and state leaders heading into midterm elections next year: Identify a galvanizing issue and invest in getting out supporters.
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The plan envisions the government shoring up U.S. households, setting industrial policy to tackle climate change and confronting the gaping income inequality that was laid bare by the COVID-19 crisis.
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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says his conversations with Gen. Li Zuocheng during the final months of Donald Trump's presidency were intended to avoid misunderstandings.
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Because Democrats control the Senate, Hawley can effectively only delay President Biden's nominations.
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City voters have for the first time narrowed the field of mayoral candidates to two women of color, a major shift away from two centuries of local politics dominated by white men.
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The Democrats are proposing that the top tax rate rise back to 39.6% – in addition to a 3% surtax on Americans with adjusted income beyond $5 million a year.
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Republicans have vowed to scuttle the bill, which would establish national rules for running elections, limit partisanship in the drawing of congressional districts and force the disclosure of many anonymous donors.
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The election, which turned on Newsom’s response to the pandemic, mirrored the nation’s heated political divide over business closures and mask and vaccine mandates.
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Antony Blinken echoes White House talking points blaming the Trump administration for making a deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The attempted whitewashing of the attack on Congress threatens to further divide an already polarized nation that finds itself drifting away from what had been common facts and a shared commitment to civic order.
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says he won't support even half that amount of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion plan or the ambitious timetable envisioned for passing it.
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The special legislative commission had little for the public to weigh in on Friday when it held its first public hearing on the redistricting.
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An offshoot of the Republican Attorneys General Association held a special meeting weeks before the election to discuss its strategies if then-President Donald Trump lost.
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The president calls the governors ‘cavalier’ with the health of young Americans and tells those who would file legal challenges: ‘Have at it.’
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The Minnesota senator, 61, says it was detected during a routine mammogram, and eventually she had a lumpectomy to remove it.
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A spokesman for King says the independent voiced concerns about the controversial pick of David Chipman, who was a gun-safety advocate and critic of the National Rifle Association.
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Maine's congressional districts are about to get a makeover, as a legislative commission contemplates how to move about 23,300 voters out of what is now the 1st District in response to the latest federal census.
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The White House is asking for $14 billion in aid to respond to natural disasters that occurred before Hurricane Ida, as well as $6.4 billion to pay for the ongoing relocation of tens of thousands of Afghans who partnered with the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan.
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The reapportionment commission is responsible for redrawing congressional and legislative districts based on new U.S. Census data.
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The laws are part of a national GOP campaign, including in Florida, Georgia and Arizona, to tighten voting laws, partly driven by Trump's false claims that the election was stolen.
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A group collecting signatures says it wants Maine to do a ‘forensic audit’ of its 2020 results, but Attorney General Aaron Frey says the document that voters are signing has no legal merit.
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April Fournier's decision runs counter to the city attorney's recommendation that she recuse herself from discussion of the clean-elections case.
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh's decision late Wednesday night revives questions of whether the Maine senator was misled by the nominee or whether she was intent on supporting him no matter his views on abortion rights.
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Their mixed reactions illustrate the political risks for the Republican Party as their anti-abortion allies begin actually achieving goals they have long sought.
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If he withholds his vote, Democrats essentially cannot proceed in the Senate, where party lawmakers must stay united in the face of a guaranteed Republican filibuster.
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Cheney's position will boost Democrats' arguments the probe is bipartisan even as many Republicans oppose it.
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President Biden has noted several times recently that the Taliban are avowed enemies of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, suggesting a shared interest with the United States.
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The panel on Monday asked 35 companies to retain phone records and other information related to the U.S. Capitol attack as it develops its investigation.
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The law is the strictest against abortion rights in the United States since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
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The legislation limits voting hours and bans drive-thru voting.
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Advocates want the City Council to reverse course and put the 2019 citizen initiative on the November ballot, but the clerk says ballots are already being printed.
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The president has faced tough questions about the way the U.S. went about leaving Afghanistan – a chaotic evacuation including a suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members and 169 Afghans.
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The dissonance between the rhetoric of Capitol rioters and their supporters and the record established by courts highlights both the racial tension inherent in their arguments and the flawed assessment at the heart of their claims.
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Ed Thelander, a retired Navy SEAL from Bristol, announced he will challenge incumbent Democrat Chellie Pingree, who is serving her seventh term, in 2022.
