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The former president and GOP front-runner acknowledged political motivations in seeking to block a border bill as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings.
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Michael Foley has served as mayor since 2019 and previously sat on the City Council. He will start his new job on a part-time basis Wednesday.
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The bill from Rep. Traci Gere, D-Kennebunkport, would give developers proposing affordable housing in areas identified for growth an alternative pathway to having their projects approved.
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The former New York governor, once a rising star in the Democratic party, left office in 2021 after a report by Attorney General Letitia James concluded he sexually harassed at least 11 women.
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Despite Trump’s bullying tactics, Republican donors are sticking with Haley for now, giving her enough cash to stay in the race as she has promised she would.
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The diminishing prospects for the bill's passage in Congress could have far-reaching consequences for U.S. allies around the world.
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Right to repair advocates are concerned that the bill would gut the core tenets of the existing law, but legislators are concerned that the law puts consumers and their privacy at risk.
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The meeting with Donald Trump is the second this month for Teamsters President Sean O’Brien.
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She plans to submit her budget and policy priorities to lawmakers in writing and use her televised address Tuesday night to talk about 'a period of extraordinary challenge for our state,' including the Lewiston shooting and a series of devastating storms.
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The measure would have further solidified Trump's control of the party and its operation at a time when Nikki Haley is still competing for the GOP nomination.
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Sen. Susan Collins believes the pressure to reach an agreement is going to be greater than the former president's effort to derail a deal so he can campaign on immigration.
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Everytown for Gun Safety is joining with Moms Demand Action and a Maine state senator to push for significant reforms in Maine to prevent more violence like the mass shooting in Lewiston.
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Nikki Haley is vowing to stay in the race, but the leading candidates are already launching the machinery to pummel each other over the next 9 months.
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The Supreme Judicial Court says it can't rule on the dispute because there wasn't a final judgment when a lower court sent the case back to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to await the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on a Colorado challenge.
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A provision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment could prevent former president Donald Trump from running for office again. Here’s how.
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Collins did not endorse Donald Trump in 2016 and wouldn't say whether she supported him in 2020, but voted to convict him after his 2021 impeachment trial.
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The UAW endorsed President Biden, who also spoke to the UAW on Wednesday, courting union voters as the primary election season heats up.
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The call generates a voice similar to Biden’s and employs his often-used phrase, 'What a bunch of malarkey.' It then tells the listener to 'save your vote for the November election.'
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The former president and his allies trained their attacks on the former U.N. ambassador in the week before the N.H. primary, which Donald Trump won easily Tuesday.
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The result was a setback for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state.
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Donald Trump said the state court should wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to provide clarity on whether he can be barred from the primary ballot, but the secretary of state said such a federal ruling may or may not settle the dispute in Maine.
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The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault estimates Maine services will lose $5.8 million in federal funding this year.
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The district attorney is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to seek convictions in Georgia's 2020 election interference case.
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Trump could become the first Republican presidential candidate to win open races in Iowa and New Hampshire since both states began leading the election calendar in 1976.
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The state still needs to create a database for repair data and an oversight board to ensure manufacturers are sharing that information. Until that happens, mechanics and consumers may not see any changes.
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All 6 registered voters of Dixville Notch cast their ballots for over former President Donald Trump.
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The future of the election interference case against former president Donald Trump in Georgia could hinge on a bitter divorce case playing out in the Atlanta suburbs.
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A task force provides updates on the steps it has taken to build on President Biden’s 3 previous executive orders that outline ways that the administration can improve or protect access to abortion and contraception.
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Bureaucratic hurdles have delayed urgently needed funding for Maine's struggling ambulance services.
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The Lewiston congressman favors abortion rights while Mike Soboleski and Austin Theriault call themselves 'pro-life.'
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The concertina wire along roughly 30 miles of the Rio Grande near the border city of Eagle Pass is part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's broader fight with the administration over immigration enforcement.
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The New Hampshire attorney general’s office is investigating complaints of robocalls impersonating President Biden telling voters not to vote in Tuesday’s primary.
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With voting about to begin in New Hampshire, almost every top Republican has lined up behind Trump, and polls in New Hampshire suggest he leads Haley in a state uniquely suited to her strengths.
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Lawmakers heard nearly 6 hours of testimony on the proposal, which faces an uphill battle requiring two-thirds support in both the House and Senate in order to be sent to voters.
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Early polls suggested that the ambitious Florida governor was in a strong position to take on Trump. But in the end, he did not survive the reality of presidential politics in 2024.
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Sununu has emerged as Haley’s most vocal surrogate, campaigning with her across the state and lending his own appeal and local acumen to her cause.
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Haley's best shot at shaking Trump’s grip on the Republican nomination rests with her ability to attract New Hampshire’s independent voters – including some who might not stick with her in November.
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Democrats are working to broaden how they talk to voters about the Supreme Court's decision, delivered by a conservative majority that included three justices nominated by Trump, and what it means for people's access to health care and their freedoms.
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Former President Donald Trump leads Haley by nearly 16 points in the latest RealClearPolitics average of New Hampshire polls, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a distant third.
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Biden’s advisers have also homed in on the campaign’s likely top issues in the presidential race, with prescription drugs, taxes, and corporate price-gouging emerging at the forefront of those discussions.
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Sarasota police said a review of a cellphone video Christian Ziegler made of the encounter showed that it was 'likely consensual,' making it impossible to charge him with rape.
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Business groups say the stricter standard on particulate pollution could hurt manufacturing jobs in states key to President Biden’s reelection chances.
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Demi Kouzounas, the former chair of the Maine Republican Party, announced on Friday that she will run against independent Sen. Angus King for his U.S. Senate seat. Sen. Susan Collins says she does not plan to make a formal endorsement in the race.
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The attack comes four days before the New Hampshire primary, in which Haley is trying to establish herself as the only viable Trump alternative in the Republicans' 2024 nominating contest.
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The Libertarian Party now has the same ballot access as Democrats, Republicans, Green Independents and No Labels.
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Bellows had previously ruled that former President Trump was disqualified from the Maine Republican primary ballot.
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The brief filed Thursday by Donald Trump's lawyer was a precursor to oral arguments on the Colorado ballot case that the Supreme Court has scheduled for Feb. 8.
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The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that the two parties have agreed for the president's son to sit for a deposition on Feb. 28.
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A bill to create a bipartisan commission to tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress won approval from a House committee on Thursday.
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Far-right House conservatives were furious over the move, which sends the bill to President Biden to sign into law and keep the government open.
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A Trump attorney tried to show the jury that E. Jean Carroll has achieved the fame, if not the fortune, she desired after the publication of a memoir accusing Trump of raping her in the 1990s.
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Former President Donald Trump is cramming campaigning and court into a single day.
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The bill is the first piece of gun safety legislation to receive a committee vote since the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston that killed 18 people and wounded 13.