Efforts in the Maine Legislature to increase broadband funding — a stalled priority of Gov. Janet Mills — are moving forward in 2020, though majority Democrats are split between borrowing or spending outright with Republicans skeptical of both options. Read More
The Maine Republican Party filed a Tuesday complaint with the Maine Ethics Commission alleging campaign finance violations by House Speaker Sara Gideon during the past state election cycle as the Democrat runs against U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in 2020. Read More
Susan Collins has said she will likely support witnesses after both sides have made their arguments, but it hasn’t been fully clear which Republicans might join her aside from Sen. Mitt Romney. Read More
Clearing waitlists for adults with developmental disabilities seeking services in Maine could cost up to $80 million a year, but doing so within the current system is not the path the administration of Gov. Janet Mills wants to take amid a legislative push. Read More
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who was in Maine on Monday to plug his high-dollar Democratic presidential run, said he would actively back his party’s challenger to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine despite past donations to her. Read More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told senators privately Tuesday he does not yet have the votes to block new witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Read More
President Donald Trump's legal team argued forcefully against the relevance of testimony from Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday as they concluded their defense and the Senate braced for debate later this week on whether to summon Bolton and other witnesses into the impeachment trial. Read More
U.S. officials say President Donald Trump's long-awaited Middle East peace plan calls for the creation of a State of Palestine with its capital in portions of east Jerusalem. Read More
Vice President Mike Pence's planned visit on Tuesday to Wisconsin's liberal stronghold of Madison may signal the opening of a new front in the hotly contested campaign to win the battleground state. Read More
Activists trying to repeal a stricter school vaccination law are trying to capitalize of people's anger and distrust of the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the March vote. Read More
Allowing a president to thumb his nose by refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation would set a dangerous precedent, giving the president power to operate without congressional oversight, the senator said. Read More
During a raucous campaign rally in which Trump critiqued some of his Democratic challengers, the president launched into an unprompted defense of Sanders. Read More
American seafood exporters are optimistic that a new trade deal with China will allow them to claw back into one of the world's biggest markets for lobster, but help might not have arrived in time for the biggest day on the calendar. Read More
The floor of the Senate now belongs to President Donald Trump's lawyers as they push the Republican-led chamber for his impeachment acquittal on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress. Read More
Some environmental health advocates say the final recommendations released this week from a state task force examining a family of chemicals known as PFAS are too weak. Read More
Closing out their case, House Democrats warned Friday in Donald Trump's impeachment trial that the president will persist in abusing his power and endangering American democracy unless Congress intervenes to remove him before the 2020 election. Read More
Republicans in the Senate appear unmoved by the Democratic push for witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial despite persistent appeals from Rep. Adam Schiff and the other House prosecutors. Read More
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg will campaign in Portland and Scarborough on Monday as the billionaire opens a Maine campaign office in his late-breaking and self-funded bid to rise up the uncertain Democratic presidential primary field. Read More
Democratic House prosecutors launched their final arguments Friday at Donald Trump's impeachment trial accusing the president of laboring to cover up his actions with Ukraine that finally led to the charges now against him. Read More
President Donald Trump called it his "profound honor" on Friday to be the first president to attend the annual anti-abortion gathering in Washington called the March for Life. Read More
Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a "completely bogus" Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani. Read More
A new poll shows Americans are more likely than not to support President Donald Trump's decision to order a drone strike that killed an Iranian general, even amid widespread skepticism about his foreign policy overall. Read More
