Rep. Chris Collins is under federal indictment accusing him of insider trading and lying to the FBI.

The hearing is announced just hours after she and several colleagues said the Supreme Court nominee and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, should testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

More than half of the money is to oppose Republican candidate Shawn Moody.

Senate Republicans delay a Judiciary Committee vote that had been planned for Thursday.

Vintage Kennedy photographs have been digitized and published online.

A trove of documents show the WikiLeaks founder's budding relationship with Russia.

Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, urges the panel not to act immediately on the Supreme Court nominee.

A top Republican pollster says the outcome hinges not on the economy, but how voters feel about Trump.

While his friend watched, she says, a teenage Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes.

Informed by an influential family and an esteemed role model, a longtime Maine Democratic leader has come prepared with decades of public service as she seeks the governor's job.

Donald Trump and Paul LePage are casting long shadows over elections to fill the 186 seats in the House and Senate.

He was among the participants in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York with Russians and Trump's oldest son and son-in-law that was arranged for the campaign to receive derogatory information about Democratic president nominee Hillary Clinton.

While Florence wreaks havoc on the Carolinas, the president goes back on Twitter on Friday to dispute experts' conclusion that nearly 3,000 died from the effects of Hurricane Maria.

Just 25 percent of Americans say it's very or extremely important that a candidate has strong religious beliefs, according to the poll.

Retired Adm. Will McRaven resigned after he criticised Trump for revoking former CIA director's security clearance.

A group of Bowdoin College students marched through downtown to Collins' office, followed by a second rally with protesters clad in black.

The allegation is made in a letter passed along to the FBI, which vets federal nominees.

It is unclear what information President Trump's former campaign manager is prepared to provide to investigators looking into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

There were indications that Nixon's aggressive challenge pushed the incumbent governor to the left on several issues, including legalizing marijuana and addressing crumbling public housing in New York City.

The party supports its candidate, Mark Holbrook, but independent Marty Grohman also gets Republican backing.

Rep. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, sang the national anthem and read a prayer on Thursday morning to open the last day of the 128th Maine Legislature.

The nature and importance of the information provided by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, as well as who gave it to her, aren't known.

Steven McGrath came from the private energy sector, where he specialized in finance and management.

The state party will host the president's eldest son at an event in Portland on Oct. 1

On its last day of action in a marathon year, legislators also pass a change to foreclosure law, and some level not-so-veiled criticism at the governor.

The Maine senator, feeling the heat in the intense battle over Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination, calls out callers who resort to obscenity.

Maine's independent U.S. senator cites 5 reasons for his decision, and says the 'stakes are too high' to support President Trump's nominee.

The governor declines to talk about a medical problem that resulted in him being taken from New Brunswick to Presque Isle to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Those hoping to be fast-tracked and become LPNs must have served in a medical corps, spent at least 12 months providing bedside patient care and left the military with an honorable discharge.

LePage, who called Republican Tom Saviello 'the most repugnant human being,' says he'll apologize when Saviello does, or 'when hell freezes over.'

Safiya Wazir, a Concord Democrat, fled Afghanistan as the Taliban consolidated power

The tape makes the rounds on social media, driven by Breitbart.

A blue wave could wash away Bruce Poliquin, Charlie Cook says.

An intensifying political climate is among several factors fueling exponentially higher spending rates than in recent midterm elections.

As of Sept. 10, political action committees and party committees had spent nearly $366,000 to influence contests for Maine's Senate and House.

Spending levels risen sharply as a result of a bipartisan agreement to shed budget caps that maintained fiscal discipline.

The Massachusetts governor didn't accept public financing and the $1.5 million limit that would have come with it.

The Maine Democratic Party issues a release that reveals Christopher J. Hoy's misdemeanor convictions and calls on Republican leaders to urge him to withdraw from the District 33 race.

The governor withdrew more than a dozen nominations after a legislative committee rejected his pick for the Maine Turnpike Authority board.

The state has now conformed with the federal tax code, providing $76 million in tax relief for individuals and businesses and making filing easier.

Maine's Republican senior senator ranked 16th on the annual list for being a crucial vote on a host of policy issues, including the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

The national effort would help to bankroll a Democratic challenger's campaign in the 2020 election, a tactic that Collins likens to a ’bribe.‘

John McCain's successor says he would vote to repeal, but a vote is unlikely to be called.

Rep. Ron DeSantis says he shouldn't keep the position and receive a salary when he's likely to miss the vast majority of votes in Congress before the election.

The $100,000 effort to boost the candidacy of Republican challenger Eric Brakey, a state senator from Auburn, is funded almost entirely by Andrew Beal, a Texas banker who gave $2 million to support the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Mainers voted last fall to expand the health insurance program and lawmakers approved the funding in June, but the governor vetoed the bill.

She finds herself in the crosshairs of social media campaigns, a series of rallies and a fundraising drive to bankroll a 2020 Democratic challenger if she votes to confirm the Supreme Court nominee.

Adrienne Bennett, LePage's spokeswoman for six years, has left her bank job to work on legislative affairs for the Labor Department.

Shawn Moody, Janet Mills, Alan Caron and Terry Hayes have varying ideas for attracting and keeping young workers, in the face of a booming economy and record low unemployment.

The vice president says he would take a lie-detector test to prove he didn't write the anonymous New York Times op-ed.

Rep. Ron DeSantis, Republican candidate for governor, has been under scrutiny for his views on race.

The Republican who hopes to follow in the current governor's footsteps banks on his proven entrepreneurial ability and a life story built on success.

The Maine Democrat, whose tenure as Senate majority leader included several Supreme Court appointments, nonetheless says Brett Kavanaugh's nomination will prevail.

The party's resistance to President Trump enters a new stage.

The House passed the Empowering Students Through Financial Counseling Act that requires students and their guardians to receive financial counseling before assuming federal loan debt.

He's accused in Washington of financial crimes including conspiring to launder money.

Brakey, a two-term state senator, is challenging independent U.S. Sen. Angus King.

The moderate Republican wields a key vote and says she won't make a decision until she has a chance to review Brett Kavanaugh's paperwork and testimony.

The Republican wants Democrat Janet Mills, the attorney general and gubernatorial candidate, to provide legal bills as detailed as those done by private law firms.

The Supreme Court nominee has gone on record with his support for religious groups.

The governor had proposed the measures, one of which would shift state policy away from family reunification and toward the best interests of the child.

Sam Patten, a Camden native who has pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, allegedly sent digital messages threatening to release damaging information about former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.

Its report calls for conducting all federal, state and local elections on paper ballots by 2020.

George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a professor who had told him the Russians held dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The judge sticks to a well-rehearsed script throughout his testimony.

Republican Rich Donaldson of Georgetown, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Eloise Vitelli, shared images and jokes that mocked Mexicans, gays and prominent Democrats in 2016.

Friday was a filing date for Maine's political action committees and party committees to report their donations and expenditures.

The former president speaks at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as he begins to re-enter the political fray ahead of the midterm elections.

The nationally funded group uses a new social media tactic to build an audience with clickbait content.

The governor, who was hospitalized last month for ‘discomfort,’ is in good health, his spokesman says.

Democrats raise questions about why so many Kavanaugh documents have been kept from the public.

The independent says he plans to visit every city and town in Maine before Election Day.

A spokeswoman for Maine's Republican senator says a 2003 email by the Supreme Court nominee doesn't contradict past statements that he views the landmark abortion decision as 'settled law.'

With two months left until Election Day, Democrat Janet Mills replaces campaign manager Michael Ambler with veteran political operative Jeremy Kennedy.

Rep. Larry Lockman of Amherst, leader of the Maine First Project, says similar fliers were sent out in four other House districts.

Booker had questioned Kavanaugh about his use of the term 'naked racial set-aside.'

Opponents of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination focus on the abortion issue, but their chances of blocking his confirmation appear to fade.

The effort by 20 Republican-led states argues that the health care law was rendered unconstitutional after Congress repealed the individual mandate.

The president says on Twitter that The New York Times must, 'for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!'

The action by state and local governments comes just a few years after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act.

The Vermont senator's bill would force big businesses to cover the cost of federal benefits used by their poor employees on basic necessities.

The president blasts the op-ed in The New York Times, which says a group within the administration is 'trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't.'

When Jones refuses to back off, Rubio says, 'You're not going to get arrested. I'll take care of you myself.'

But both Democrats and Republicans said they were doubtful that the social media giants had fully cleaned them up ahead of the midterm elections

An AARP Maine poll of 804 voters older than 50 also indicates Sen. Angus King and Rep. Chellie Pingree have big leads among those voters, and Rep. Bruce Poliquin is in a tight race against a Democratic challenger.

The Supreme Court nominee leaves some ‘hypothetical’ questions unanswered.

The portrayal sets off a firestorm with its descriptions of current and former aides calling the president an 'idiot' and a 'liar.'

With no Republican opponent, Ayanna Pressley is a virtual lock to become the state's first black woman elected to Congress.

In a key generic ballot question, registered voters say they favor the Democratic candidate over the Republican candidate in their district by 52 percent to 38 percent.

Many of the hundreds of violations over the past five years took place while President Trump's son-in-law was running the family real estate company.

The governor, a staunch opponent of expanding Medicaid, wrote in his application that additional funds have not been appropriated.

The mayor's announcement comes the day before the start of one of the biggest police-shooting trials in Chicago history – the murder trial of police officer Jason Van Dyke.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey planned to make the announcement Tuesday. It was revealed in a tweet by McCain's widow, Cindy McCain.

Scott Pruitt, who resigned his job as head of the EPA this summer, faced a barrage of criticism from both sides of the political aisle for millions in additional spending on security, travel and perks.

The book, 'Fear,' paints a picture of the Trump presidency in which his anger and paranoia paralyze the White House, while staffers endure his temper and insults.

While Brett Kavanaugh says he would not judge cases based on his own views, Democrats call for a delay in the confirmation and protesters disrupt the proceedings.

Councilors Nicholas Mavodones and Spencer Thibodeau are targeted by the local chapter of Democratic Socialists of America as the national group becomes more active in elections, endorsing candidates in 20 states so far.

A liberal group goes to the dogs to entice college students to register to vote.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders attends a Labor Day breakfast organized by the New Hampshire AFL-CIO, but does not mention the 2020 presidential race or whether he plans to join it.