Social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok and Twitter say they’re taking steps to prevent the spread of misinformation about voting and elections ahead of next month’s midterms.
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IRS raises contribution limits for retirement savings plans
Americans will be allowed to contribute more of their money to 401(k) and similar retirement saving plans next year.
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JD Vance’s firm invested in food company now facing lawsuits
A high-tech sustainable food company in Appalachia is facing five lawsuits alleging it misled investors.
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Day care workers charged, accused of scaring tots with mask
Viral video footage shows the masked person yelling at children who didn’t ‘act good.’
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Massachusetts man killed in crash on I-95 in Pittsfield
Ralph Desrosiers, 21 of Wilmington, died in a single-car accident Friday afternoon.
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Gordon L. Weil: Ukraine ends a post WWII world
The Ukraine War wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of the Second World War, Americans and others drank their own bathwater, as the saying goes. They imagined that the winning alliance – the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China – had finally halted the endless land wars for territorial gain. In 1945, […]
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Midcoast Symphony Orchestra announces Oct. 29-30 season opener
Orchestra to perform music by Brahms, Coleman and Shostakovich with piano soloist.
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UK’s Truss quits after turmoil obliterated her authority
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned — bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous six-week term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party obliterated her authority.
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Letters to the editor: Pausing Brunswick development; political endorsements
Pushing pause The Brunswick Town Council took a commendable stand Monday night by voting unanimously to approve an emergency moratorium on a large development project in the Maquoit Bay watershed. No matter what part of town you live in, Maquoit/Middle Bay is an essential resource for the area. We swim and boat there, tourists come […]
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UK inflation accelerates to 40-year high as food prices rise
British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation’s poorest residents.