The Maine attorney general’s office said it will review a contested finding that alcoholism contributed to the death of an Appalachian Trail hiker as part of a complaint by a lawmaker who said that autopsy was “very disturbing.” Read More
President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment in the House and subsequent trial in the Senate presents a distinct dilemma for Susan Collins. Read More
From confirming a new appeals court judge to female veterans' access to health care, here's how Maine's members of Congress voted. Read More
Maine’s medical examiner said alcoholism contributed to the hiker's death, although his wife said he stopped drinking after his diabetes diagnosis roughly 15 years ago. Read More
Maine’s attorney general is calling for Congress to provide more resources to the courts that handle minor offenses involving veterans. Read More
The briefings show that U.S. officials knew early that Zelensky was feeling pressure to investigate Biden, even though the Ukrainian leader later denied it in a joint news conference with Trump in September. Read More
Pushing back against accusations from the president that the process has been stacked against him, Pelosi said Trump is welcome to appear or answer questions in writing, if he chooses. Read More
North Carolina's Josh Stein is emblematic of a new kind of state attorney general — more aggressive, often bipartisan — rising to prominence nationwide. Read More
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to announce on Monday that the U.S. is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a series of Trump administration moves that weaken Palestinian claims to statehood. Read More
Like candidates from the time of George Washington, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor is leaning hard on his seven-month deployment as an intelligence officer in Afghanistan as a powerful credential. Read More
As he had done so many times before, Trump reversed course — this time on a plan to address a major public health problem because of worries that apoplectic vape shop owners and their customers might hurt his re-election prospects. Read More
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Saturday afternoon's visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was for a routine physical exam. Read More
Fifty candidates — 33 Democrats and 17 Republicans — managed to get on the ballot for the 2020 primary before the filing period closed Friday. Read More
Recent episodes have illuminated tensions within the conservative political movement as far-right activists seek influence among young Republicans on campuses and elsewhere ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Read More
The survey showed Buttigieg with support from 25 percent of likely caucusgoers, followed by essentially a three-way tie for second place. Read More
With his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support Saturday to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, getting about 51 percent of the vote. Read More
Asylum seekers rejected by the United States could be transported to a remote airport in the lowland jungles of Guatemala as part of the Central American nation’s new migration accord with the Trump administration. Read More
Elizabeth Warren announced Friday that she won’t immediately push to give every American fully government-funded health care and instead will work to oversee passage of a “Medicare for All” program by the end of her third year if elected president. Read More
Now that Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has conceded, Beshear is moving quickly to translate the political activism of teachers that began in 2018. Read More
Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, has been found guilty at his trial in federal court in Washington. Read More
The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Read More
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop a prosecutor’s investigation of his personal finances, a bold assertion of presidential power that seeks a landmark decision from the nation’s highest court. Read More
The attack came two weeks after Biden issued a statement attacking President Donald Trump’s North Korea policy and referring to that country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, as a “murderous dictator.” Read More
“I have one problem,” Trump said. “Impeachment to me is a dirty word, it’s been very unfair, very hard on my family.” Read More
An ambassador, her firing and a pair of fixers. Those details stand at the center of Marie Yovanovitch’s story, a personal ordeal she’ll describe to Americans and the world Friday. Read More
Maine has begun developing a plan to import prescription drugs from Canada under a new law without guidance from the federal government, which will eventually have to sign off on the state roadmap. Read More
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin conceded to Democratic archnemesis Andy Beshear on Thursday, putting an end to Kentucky’s bitterly fought governor’s race. Read More
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that agreement on a new North American trade deal is “imminent” and she would like to pass it by year’s end. Read More
The inspector general’s report recommended that Pompeo consider disciplining Brian Hook, currently the point man for Iran policy. Read More
