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It is highly unlikely that Biden would agree to appear before lawmakers in such a setting. The White House has repeatedly called the Republican-led inquiry baseless.
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Maine's senior senator said she doesn't know how she will vote in November, rejecting both President Biden and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The original bill sought to treat substance use as a public health issue and would have set up receiving centers to help people dealing with a crisis.
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The proposal would allow the state to assess the needs of young people accused of crimes and provide them with services so they can remain in the community, rather than be sent to Long Creek Youth Development Center.
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Several Democrats joined solid Republican opposition to reject legislation that proposes a first step in judging utilities' performance when setting rates.
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Trump and 18 others are charged with allegedly participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court disagreed with a Readfield couple who argued the ban contradicts a new 'right to food' amendment voters approved in 2021.
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The decision removes one of the top remaining prospects for the centrist group hoping to upset the two-party system this year with a bipartisan 'unity ticket.'
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The Judiciary Committee also will soon take up a last-minute bill that would put in place 'an improved crisis intervention order' for restricting access to firearms when people are deemed to be a threat.
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The measure would enact strict limits on when a company can collect, store and analyze consumer information, while creating exemptions for nonprofits, educational institutions and hospitals.
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As Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in 2000, he was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party.
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The legislation would set required ratios in an effort to improve working conditions and ease a nursing shortage. Opponents say the measure would reduce access to care.
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Earlier this month, President Biden unveiled a budget plan that proposes to raise more than $4.5 trillion in new taxes over the next decade, largely by targeting corporations.
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Some want a lower minimum wage for young farmworkers, while others advocate preserving the right to sue an agricultural employer for failing to pay minimum wage.
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Seven hosts publicly criticized the decision to make the former Republican National Committee chair a paid contributor.
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The New York judge's order also prohibits the former president from making public statements about prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial.
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The councilor is stepping away from city government after 2 terms on the school board and one on the council.
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Some environmental groups say the rules that would allow for open pit mineral mining provide ample safeguards, but others demand more preliminary testing, smaller pit size limits, stronger reclamation standards and dark skies protections.
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The United Nations Security Council issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the vote.
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A bill proposing to end Maine’s 3 strikes law for thefts, which allows for felony charges on a third offense, cleared the House of Representatives on Monday.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been trying to avoid having to post a bond for the entire $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals a New York trial judge's ruling.
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A New York judge bristles at what he suggested were baseless Trump defense claims of 'prosecutorial misconduct' during the hearing Monday.
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The case could make it harder to get medication abortions even in states where abortion is legal.
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On 'Meet the Press,' a panel of journalists questioned the credibility of her answers and laid into NBC executives for their decision to hire someone who had long attacked the network.
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Voters in 2020 did not blame Trump for the pandemic, but they did fault his response to it.
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Win or lose, Dakota Adams' campaign is built on his belief that people sympathetic to extremist groups might be open to seeing things differently.
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Lawmakers are vowing to adopt new rules to provide more transparency for bills that are submitted with only a vague title and no explanation of intent.
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It took lawmakers six months into the current budget year to get near the finish line on government funding, the process slowed by conservatives who pushed for more policy mandates and steeper spending cuts.
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The amended bill, sponsored by Sen. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, eliminates some of the more controversial elements in the original measure.
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Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committeeThe committee unanimously approved a bill declaring electric vehicle rules to be the responsibility of lawmakers and not the Board of Environmental Protection, an appointed citizen board that rejected EV rules the previous day.
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Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican had already announced he would not seek reelection.
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The House is scheduled to leave town for a 2-week spring recess at the end of Friday’s session. It’s doubtful any vote on removing Johnson would be imminent.
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Senate passes $1.2 trillion funding package in early morning vote, ending threat of partial shutdownThe latest package was clearly unpopular with most Republicans, who viewed it as containing too few of their policy priorities and as spending too much.
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The budget proposal from a large group of House Republicans would, among other things, raise the retirement age for Social Security and endorse a bill that would codify that life begins at conception.
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The measure backed by Democrats passed out of committee on an 8-4 party-line vote and now heads to floor votes in the Legislature.
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The Legislature's Judiciary Committee tabled three other gun-related bills during a work session Thursday and will take them up again at a later date.
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Both parties were touting 'wins' in the package well before unveiling the massive 1,012-page bill, which had already won President Biden’s blessing.
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Donald Trump’s father’s condition also drove a wedge into his family, which fell into years of lawsuits that alleged in part that Donald Trump sought to take advantage of his father’s dementia to wrest control of the family estate.
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In New Hampshire, lawmakers are nearing passage of legislation to let police bring trespassing charges against people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. from Canada.
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If approved, the minimum would increase to $14.15 an hour in September, matching the minimum for all other workers.
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The Republican former president has taken credit for appointing Supreme Court justices who struck down a federally guaranteed right to abortion, and now suggests a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
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Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, praises ‘very valuable’ potential of Gaza’s ‘waterfront property’'It’s a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,' said Kushner, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Suggesting lawmakers should take up such sweeping changes, the Board of Environmental Protection votes 4-2 against the rules on the same day that the Biden administration rolls out the country's strongest-ever limits on tailpipe pollution.
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The committee is left without the hard evidence it was seeking of wrongdoing by the president or his son, and may try to send unspecified 'criminal referrals' to the Justice Department.
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Democratic lawmakers meet in private with a federal firearms regulator to discuss existing rules in preparation for a key committee meeting Thursday. Republicans criticize the move, pass up an offer to do the same and say the discussions should have been public.
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The bill would transfer some of the responsibility for providing disability services to young kids onto individual school districts within 4 years – a timeline that some worry is too quick.
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Final committee votes have yet to be tallied, but the proposed $2 million tax break will now go to the full Legislature.
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Donald Trump and President Biden have for weeks been focused on the general election, aiming their campaigns lately on states that could be competitive in November rather than merely those holding primaries.
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he expects a vote to happen by Friday.
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The bill would prohibit charging such fees for telehealth appointments and require signs be placed to inform patients when the fees may be charged.
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Supreme Court opens new frontier for insurrection claims that could target state and local officialsTaken together, 2 recent high court actions herald a new legal landscape as the liberal groups that pushed the issue of Trump's disqualification to the Supreme Court reboot efforts to target state and local officials linked to Jan. 6.
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They point to the state commission's finding that faulted the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office for not using existing laws to seize guns from the shooter before he killed 18 people in Lewiston.
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It's unclear where any migrants ordered to leave might go if the law is ultimately allowed. It calls for them to be sent to ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, even if they are not Mexican citizens.