Attorney General Aaron Frey said the group wants the FTC to spur collaboration between regulators to stem practices that "depress wages, limit job mobility, and limit opportunities for advancement." Read More
A Penobscot County legislator who has said Democrats are waging a “war on whites” kicked off a 2020 run against an incumbent Republican state senator on Tuesday with an endorsement from former Gov. Paul LePage. Read More
The 2020 race is expected to shatter Maine political spending records as national Democrats have made Collins a target after her October vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois are calling the proposal the STRANDED Act. Read More
Here’s what opppnents — and CMP — have to worry about between now and the November 2020 election. Read More
A divided House voted Tuesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist remarks telling four minority congresswomen to “go back” to their ancestral countries. Read More
His motivations were immediately greeted with skepticism from some political observers in South Carolina, who have watched Sanford plot a political comeback before and questioned whether he was merely seeking publicity. Read More
The Democratic congresswomen to respond by offering a competing vision of America that they said was based on inclusiveness. Read More
President Donald Trump trails at least three Democratic hopefuls in theoretical head-to-head matchups for the 2020 general election, a new poll showed. Read More
Trump on Monday called on a group of minority, liberal congresswomen to “apologize” to the United States, Israel and to him. Read More
The president's nativist tweets caused Democrats to set aside their internal rifts to rise up in a united chorus against him. Read More
A U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador's blunt assessments of the Trump administration. Read More
Trump's tweets drew a sharp rebuke from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Read More
From whistleblower protections to extending a nuclear arms treaty, here's how Maine's members of Congress voted. Read More
Barr's support signaled a major policy shift since his first stint as attorney general in the early 1990s, when he exuded a tough-on-crime approach. Read More
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Friday to add billions of dollars to a dwindling compensation fund for 9/11 workers. Read More
When Vice President Mike Pence visited a migrant detention center here Friday, he saw nearly 400 men crammed behind caged fences with not enough room for them all to lie down on the concrete ground. Read More
Mueller is scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 17 in a much-anticipated public appearance. Read More
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is resigning following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with a wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Read More
The list of attendees at President Donald Trump’s social media summit reflected the wide-ranging nature of Trump’s supporters. Read More
Trump threatened additional scrutiny to come, promising to bring big tech companies to Washington for an upcoming meeting while directing federal agencies to explore “all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech.” Read More
President Donald Trump said his administration will carry out nationwide raids starting on Sunday to remove those in the country illegally. Read More
At points, Trump made contradictory or arguably misleading comments. Here’s a roundup of his claims. Read More
Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question into next year's census. Read More
A showdown over lobsters and whales appears to be brewing between Maine and the federal government. Read More
Here’s to third parties. In the past week, we’ve had two major losses and an important change in partisan affiliation. H. Ross Perot and Lee Iacoccoa each passed away. Meanwhile, U.S. Read More
President Donald Trump is expected to drop his bid to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, according to a House Republicans aide. Trump instead will pursue other avenues for collecting citizenship information after the Supreme Court blocked his census efforts, according to current and former administration officials familiar with the plans. Read More
