Author: Edward Tomic

A federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas handed the Biden Administration a victory when it ruled Wednesday that the state must remove its 1,000 foot floating buoy barrier on the Rio Grande meant to deter migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. [RELATED: Biden Admin Sues Texas Over Floating Border Barrier After Threatening Gov. Abbott] Senior U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra issued a preliminary injunction ordering Texas officials to remove the floating barrier by Sept. 15, at the state’s own expense. The injunction also prohibits the state from setting up similar floating…

On Maine’s taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio program Thursday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills told host Jennifer Rooks that she has not visited any of Portland’s homeless encampments, some of which are on state property. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] “I’m wondering if you have visited any of those encampments and talked with the people there,” Rooks asked. “No I have not,” Mills responded. Rooks followed up by asking Mills “if there are more ideas if there are more proposals coming forward, given the scale of the problem” in the upcoming legislative session. Mills didn’t supply any…

The Maine State Police issued a statement Wednesday slamming the Bangor Daily News for their article covering the death in police custody of a Patten man last year. Jeremy Lau, 46, died in police custody on March 1, 2022, after he was arrested by officers from the Maine State Police and the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office following a report that Lau was vandalizing a woman’s house and threatening people. The woman who called 911 told dispatch that Lau had broken a window, had access to a knife, and was “on something.” Lau was reportedly swinging a bat at people while…

Portland Director of Health and Human Services Kristen Dow and Fire Chief Keith Gautreau joined the City Council during its Wednesday meeting to provide an update on the clean up of the Fore River Parkway encampment earlier that day. The city’s Encampment Crisis Response Team (ECRT) has been working to move individuals from the Fore River encampment into shelters ahead of Wednesday’s deadline since June, moving 18 of the almost 100 homeless individuals living in the encampment into housing. August saw the greatest increase in new tents observed in Portland — 78 — according to the city’s Unhoused Community Dashboard.…

Maine State Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) filed an official written complaint Wednesday with Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and Ethics Commission against Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook). The formal submission of the complaint comes after a Maine Wire exclusive report detailing Jackson’s years-long legal battle fought over an Augusta home he bought in 2019, potential violations of the Maine Constitution’s residency requirement for lawmakers, misrepresenting his primary residence on campaign documents, and lying to obtain a federally-insured loan. [RELATED: Pictures Suggest Troy Jackson Still Living in Augusta Post-Session, Not His Allagash District] Jackson bought a house in Augusta in Sept. 2019,…

Over 1.2 million native born U.S. workers lost their jobs between July and August, while foreign born workers gained 668,000 jobs, according to the latest Employment Situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS defines “foreign-born” as “those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth.” To be foreign-born, an individual must be born outside the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to non-citizen parents. Native-born persons are those born in U.S., Puerto Rico, or Guam, or born abroad to at least one citizen…

In a CNN interview Saturday, Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the use of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on individual basis in response to a study that claims masks are ineffective. [RELATED: ‘Caught red-handed’: Rand Paul Files Criminal Referral Against Fauci for Allegedly Lying to Congress Over Gain-of-Function Research] “When you’re talking about the effect on the pandemic as a whole, the data is less strong,” Fauci, the former White House chief medical advisor told CNN’s Michael Smerconish. “But when you talk about an individual basis of someone protecting themselves……

Portland’s Public Health Division has been selected as a recipient of a $4 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the agency’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] The CDC’s OD2A program was launched in 2019, awarding 66 grants to state, territorial, county, and city health departments. This month, the CDC awarded new five-year cooperative agreements to 90 jurisdictions under two programs, one designed for states, and one designed for localities and territories which Portland received. The OD2A program focuses on data collection via a…

Shortly before 9 p.m. on Monday, Portland Police were dispatched to a Kennedy Park apartment building where it was reported that a gun had been fired into an apartment. [RELATED: “Zombie Slasher” Machete and Loaded Shotgun Horrify Store Owners Across from Portland Homeless Encampment] Officers were given a description of the potential suspect, a juvenile, and later located him. The juvenile was taken into custody and the weapon was recovered. He received a summons for Aggravated Reckless Conduct and was released on conditions. Aggravated Reckless Conduct is a Class B crime punishable by up to ten years incarceration and a…

The owner of Fogg Lighting, a store across from one of Portland’s largest homeless encampments at the Marginal Way Park and Ride, emailed city officials, Mills Administration members, and state lawmakers Friday to inform them that he found an abandoned “Zombie Slasher” machete on his store premises. [RELATED: “We are asking for help”: Business Across From Portland Park and Ride Homeless Encampment Put on Lockdown After Man High on Drugs Enters Store] “Attached to this message is a photograph of a recovered machete, aptly named ‘The Slasher,’ which was found on the premises,” Sanford Fogg wrote in the email, which…

In a letter sent Wednesday to the Biden Administration, several key Congressional committees, and Maine’s Congressional Delegation, Gov. Janet Mills detailed Maine’s priorities for the forthcoming 2023 farm bill. Chief among them: More federal dollars to recharge EBT cards. [RELATED: $11.2 Billion Lost to Food Stamp Overpayment in FY2022, Highest Amount in Program History: FGA Report…] In her Aug. 30 letter, Gov. Mills expressed her support for a “comprehensive and equitable” 2023 farm bill. “My administration supports an equitable and robust Farm Bill that retains and, in key areas, expands funding to critical agriculture, nutrition, forestry, and conservation programs,” wrote Gov.…

Maine Gov. Janet Mills attended a remembrance ceremony Thursday, Aug. 31, on International Overdose Awareness Day — as the total number of overdoses in the state so far this year reaches close to 6,000. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] Since Mills took office, the number of fatal overdoses in Maine has increased every year. In 2019, there were 380 overdose deaths. From 2019 to 2022, a total of 2,232 Mainers have suffered fatal overdoses, according to state statistics. The ceremony was held in Boothbay, Maine, and hosted by the 716 Candles Project. The number “716”…

Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Attorney General Aaron Frey said Thursday that they are reviewing election laws related to the 14th Amendment in order to determine if former President Donald Trump could be barred from the 2024 ballot over the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. Secretary Bellows and Attorney General Frey, both former Democratic lawmakers, said that they are “working together to research and analyze the legal requirements for ballot access, including presidential ballot access, as we do prior to every major election,” in a written statement regarding “14th Amendment election law questions.”…

In a Thursday letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Ranking Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) called for a subpoena of documents related to the foreign business dealings of former President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The Oversight Democrats initially launched a probe into Kushner’s investment firm, A Fin Management LLC (Affinity Partners), in June 2022, over the firm receiving billions of dollars from wealth funds controlled by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Two months after he left his position as an advisor to then-President Trump on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, Kushner…

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Wednesday that he has filed a civil rights complaint seeking an injunctive order against a Jonesboro man who allegedly threatened an interracial couple and their children near their home in April. The injunctive order would prohibit the man, 52-year-old Dale O’Brien, from having any contact with the victims and from violating the Maine Civil Rights Act in the future, violation of which is a Class D crime, punishable by up to 364 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. [RELATED: AG Frey Files Permanent Injunction Under Maine Civil Rights Act in Racial Threatening and…

Foreign nationals bilked American taxpayers for more than $280 billion as a panicked federal government handed out relief funds during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Republican lawmakers what some answers. Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers from the Department of Justice regarding billions of taxpayer dollars allocated to COVID-19 relief funds that were stolen by international criminal organizations. https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1696553274168549485?s=20 After Republicans won a majority in the House in the 2022 midterm elections, the committee has been tasked with investigating the origins of…

A Texas man has been arrested and charged with aggravated drug trafficking as well as being a fugitive from justice following an investigation into the sale of methamphetamine, crack cocaine and heroin in the Greater Portland and Westbrook area, according to a Wednesday press release from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA). [RELATED: Eight Arrested for Drug Trafficking in Central and Mid-Coast Maine Following Months-Long Investigation] Isaac Mireles, 38, of Richmond, Texas has been charged with one count of aggravated trafficking methamphetamine, fugitive from justice for three outstanding warrants from Texas, possession with the intent to distribute illegal drugs, human…

The Maine Statistical Analysis Center, part of the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute, published a report in July entitled “Recidivism Among Sex Offenders in Massachusetts & Maine.” [RELATED: Left-wing Lincoln County DA Drops Assault Charges on Angolan Citizen Who Brutally Attacked Woman, Gave Man Detached Retina, Then Fought a Cop] The report was funded by a Bureau of Justice Statistics grant, in order to provide policy makers with empirical data on a critical issue of public safety — sex crimes committed by reoffenders. In Maine, recidivism is defined as the presence of an arrest that results in a…

In a video posted to his Instagram account Wednesday, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz said he is the victim of an extortion plot by a criminal network of hackers who gained access to his old phone, and are threatening to release intimate details about his personal life. “I am being a victim of an extortion right now. There are people who hacked my phone from more than 15 years ago, which in recent times I have not used,” Ortiz said in his native language, Spanish. “They browsed through my personal life and have wanted to extort me with that,…

In a letter to his constituents published on his Substack Monday, Democratic Congressman for Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden called out dark money-funded political networks for criticizing his opposition to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. [RELATED: Jared Golden Said an Obviously True Thing About Biden’s Student Debt Scheme — and Radical Leftists Are Losing Their Minds] On Aug. 18, Rep. Golden issued a statement on X, formerly Twitter, in response to a blog post from the Maine Beacon, a digital news and opinion outlet funded by the left-wing dark money organization Arabella Advisors. “Sadly, this is what radical…

Portland Police made a traffic stop last Monday afternoon at the intersection of Park Ave. and Mellen St. in Portland that resulted in the seizure of a large amount of illegal drugs. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] After a brief investigation, officers discovered that a passenger in the stopped car, 22-year-old Justin Williams of Saco, had a warrant. Officers searched Williams, and discovered he was in possession of 83 grams of fentanyl — enough to kill 41,500 people — 45 grams of cocaine base, 60 grams of cocaine HCL, 92 grams of methamphetamine, 169 Adderall…

Lincoln County District Attorney Natasha Irving dismissed five charges against a man who allegedly assaulted his fellow staff members at Camp Chewonki is Wiscasset in late June. The man, whose real name, date of birth, and country of origin was unknown at the time of his arrest, has since been identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as 21-year-old Carlos Dielumbaka Pedro Missione, a citizen of the African country of Angola. Lincoln County District Attorney Natasha Irving The alleged assault occurred on June 24, two days before campers were scheduled to arrive. The victim said she woke up around…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday a lawsuit to challenge the mandatory gender identity disclosure policy of the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education. The policy, adopted in July, requires schools to notify parents if their child requests to use a name or pronoun different from that on their birth certificate or official records. Parents of the Chino Valley School District are also required to be informed if their child requests to use facilities or participates in programs that don’t align with the sex on their official records. This lawsuit comes after an almost month-long civil rights…

Police in Portland, Maine were called Saturday to the house of a recently-deceased man whose daughter found three explosive devices when she was cleaning out her father’s home, according to a Monday press release. [RELATED: Suspicious Package Left at Topsham Walgreens Being Investigated by Maine State Police Bomb Squad] https://twitter.com/PolicePortland/status/1696197015384867239?s=20 Portland Police Department’s Hazardous Devices Unit (HDU) was dispatched to the Verril Street residence to assess the three suspicious items. The HDU found a claymore mine and two grenades. Some of the explosive devices were found to be unstable, and were recovered and placed in a containment vessel for save…

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced Sunday that the death of Republican legal activist Alexander Talcott, 41, in his Durham home Saturday is being investigated as a homicide. Talcott, a lawyer and member of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA), was pronounced dead at his home early Saturday morning. The New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jennie V. Duval determined the cause of Talcott’s death was a stab wound to the neck. State Director of the New Hampshire chapter of the RNLA, William O’Brien, told NBC10 Boston that Talcott stood out as a “staunch advocate for the core values…

York County residents are being targeted with unsolicited purchase agreements by a Utah real estate investment company, but county officials say residents may want to consider seeking legal advice before moving forward. The York County Registrar of Deeds, Nancy Hammond, said in a press release last Wednesday that her office has received about half-a-dozen calls from property owners who have received letters from Edge Equity LLC, a land investment company based in Washington, Utah. The letters from Edge Equity state that the source of the ownership record is “from the York County assessor.” In one instance, Edge Equity offered a…

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is fighting back against a Maine hospital that threatened to file a defamation lawsuit in response to a 15-year-old’s op-ed which called attention to patient safety concerns at the hospital. Samson Cournane, then 14, wrote a Change.org petition in September 2022 addressed to Rep. Jared Golden regarding patient safety concerns at the Northern Light Health’s Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. Dr. Anne Yered, his mother and a pediatric intensive care doctor, was fired from the same hospital in June 2022 after she raised concerns about patient safety. While Dr. Yered…

Port City Flooring, a business directly across from one of the city’s largest homeless encampments at the Maine Department of Transportation Park and Ride, was put on lockdown Wednesday after a man high on drugs entered the store fearing that someone was trying to stab him. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] In an email sent Friday to Portland city officials and Maine State Legislators, Port City Flooring Vice-President Anna McCoy told the terrifying story of what it is like operating a business across from a homeless encampment and open air drug market. “We had a…

Officers from the South Portland Police Department were dispatched at approximately 4 a.m. Friday to Summit Terrace apartments for a domestic violence call with shots fired. Upon arrival, the victim told the officers that Christapher Dodge, 47, had fled the apartment in his pickup truck. During the officers’ investigation, Dodge returned to the scene and engaged the officers in an “armed confrontation.” Officer Anthony Verville shot Dodge, who was later pronounced dead at the scene. Verville has been placed on administrative leave, a standard procedure in all police involved shootings. The incident will be investigated by the Attorney General’s Office…

Former President Donald Trump has returned to X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — for the first time since January 2021, when his account was suspended over fears that he would incite violence following Jan. 6. Trump’s Twitter account was unsuspended by Elon Musk last November after he took control over the company. The former president’s return to X came shortly after he surrendered at Fulton County Jail on charges brought by District Attorney Fani Willis alleging that he used a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. [RELATED: House Judiciary Launches Probe…

Instead of attending the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News, former president and current primary frontrunner Donald Trump did a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on X (formerly Twitter)– which has now raked in over 200 million impressions since it was published Wednesday night. According to Nielsen Ratings, the concurrently-programmed Fox News Republican primary debate drew in 12.8 million viewers, about half as many as the first GOP presidential debate in 2015, which hit 24 million viewers. https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1694513603251241143?s=20 Although X shows the Trump and Tucker Carlson interview as currently having more than 238 million views, X…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter Thursday to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis demanding answers on whether her indictment of former President Donald Trump was politically motivated. [RELATED: Trump and 18 Allies Face Racketeering Charges in Georgia Election Interference Probe] This letter comes the same day that Trump is expected to surrender to authorities in Atlanta, Georgia, to face the charges brought by Willis’ indictment that he formed a criminal racketeering enterprise along with 18 allies in an attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election. “Your indictment and prosecution implicate substantial federal interests,…

The Cumberland Police Department has found that the Greely High School library is not in violation of Maine state laws against dissemination of obscene matter to minors for providing access to the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, according to an Aug. 22 police report obtained by the Maine Wire. Multiple complaints were filed with Cumberland Police after a MSAD #51 board meeting was adjourned when a parent of a child in the school district raised concerns with the board over pornographic books in Cumberland’s Greely High School library. [RELATED: Maine School Board Shuts Down Discussion of Pornographic Books, Police…

Maine’s Congressional Delegation is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down numerous illegally operated Chinese marijuana growing operations in the state, according to a Thursday letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland This comes after the Daily Caller first reported on a leaked federal memorandum distributed within Border Patrol that identified 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana growing operations in Maine worth an estimated $4.37 billion. [RELATED: Illegal Chinese Marijuana Grow Operations Are Taking Over Maine, Leaked Memo Says: DCNF EXCLUSIVE] “These illegal growing operations are detrimental to Maine businesses that comply with State laws, and we urge the…

Maine State Representative Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) is considering challenging Rep. Jared Golden in the 2024 race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Rep. Soboleski, a Marine Corps veteran, is serving his first term representing House District 73, having been elected in 2022, defeating Democrat Vincent House. While Rep. Golden portrays himself as a moderate, Soboleski says that he is enabling the Biden administration to make decisions that have taken a toll on the nation’s and on Maine’s economy. I asked Rep. Soboleski about the most important issues facing Maine, the 2nd Congressional District, and the nation today in an exclusive interview…

A MaineHealth executive hosted an antiracist prayer service in which he had a group of White people apologize for their internalized racism, according to a since-deleted video reviewed by Fox News Digital. [RELATED: MaineHealth Insider Sounds Alarm: Trans Kids on Hormones Frequenting ER for Self-Harm] The executive, Ryan Polly, has served as Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at MaineHealth since February 2021, having previously served as the Maine Medical Center’s Director of DEI, and Interim VP of DEI at MaineHealth since September 2020. Polly, who holds a Ph.D. in “Transformative Studies,” also refers to himself as a…

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of a non-profit prisoner advocacy organization Tuesday, finding that Maine County Commissioners Association Self-Funded Risk Management Pool (Risk Pool) refused in bad faith to comply with the non-profit’s request from records under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act (FOAA). [RELATED: UMaine Professor’s First Amendment Lawsuit Against the University of Maine System Given Green Light by District Court Judge] This case was the first in which the court could consider what constitutes “bad faith” for the purposes of a FOAA provision allowing attorney’s fees and litigation expenses to be awarded to a plaintiff if…

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 16, 2022, would have a negligible impact on inflation. President Biden himself said at a recent campaign stop in New Mexico that the Inflation Reduction Act “has nothing to do with inflation.” “It has nothing to do with inflation: it has to do with the… $368 billion, the single largest investment in climate change anywhere in the world,” Biden said a campaign reception in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Aug. 8. “And it’s beginning to take hold.” [RELATED: Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Did…

Former President Donald Trump says that he will surrender Thursday to authorities in Atlanta, Georgia, to face charges that he formed a criminal racketeering enterprise along with 18 allies in an attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election. [RELATED: Trump and 18 Allies Face Racketeering Charges in Georgia Election Interference Probe] “Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis, who is overseeing one of the greatest Murder and Violent Crime DISASTERS in American History,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. According to a court…

The House Committees on the Judiciary and on Ways and Means issued subpoenas Monday to IRS and FBI officials in an ongoing probe into the Biden Department of Justice’s conduct in handling an investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax crimes. https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1693692803119726895?s=20 The subpoenas, which come after the DOJ and IRS refused to comply with multiple requests for voluntary transcribed interviews, target four officials who were either present at or with direct knowledge of a meeting on Oct. 7, 2022, in which now-Special Counsel David Weiss allegedly claimed he was stymied from bringing charges against President Biden’s son. “Our Committees, along…

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Monday that the Court granted his request for a permanent injunction under the Maine Civil Rights Act against Alisha Sayed, 28, of Portland for allegedly threatening and using racial slurs against two Black women in Portland. On Aug. 4, 2022, Sayed approached a Black woman at the Portland Public Library and repeatedly called her racial slurs, saying to the woman “[w]atch your back. I’m coming for you. I’ll be looking for you,” according the State’s Complaint. He then threatened another Black woman at a nearby apartment building later that same day, calling her racial…

Former President and current front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary Donald Trump confirmed in a post to Truth Social Sunday that he will not be participating in Wednesday’s first GOP primary debate hosted by Fox News– or any others. Trump cited an Aug. 20 CBS poll that shows the now four-times indicted candidate with his largest lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis yet, ahead by almost 50 points nationally. “The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy…

In his latest episode of “Tucker on Twitter,” Tucker Carlson sat down with 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy, an independently wealthy businessman and political outsider, has seen a recent rise in the GOP primary polls — currently sitting at a somewhat distant third place nationally behind Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. [RELATED: 2024 GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the Migrant Crisis, Free Trade, NATO] https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1692282708397863374?s=20 Ramaswamy, the first millennial to run for president as Republican, and the youngest Republican candidate ever, has distinguished himself from the rest of the GOP primary field with his anti-hawkish position on the…

Dr. Meryl Nass, a Ellsworth doctor who has been a vocal critic of official policies during the pandemic and of the COVID-19 injections, has filed a lawsuit against the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine (BOLIM) and its members that alleges the board violated her First Amendment rights and the Maine Constitution, and suspended her in retaliation for her dissenting opinions. [RELATED: State agency defends punishment for Ellsworth doctor who criticized COVID-19 policies] Dr. Nass was issued a license to practice medicine in Maine in 1997, and had no previous disciplinary findings against her license, according to her complaint. Nass…

Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund, commonly known as the “Rainy Day Fund,” has reached a record high and its statutory maximum at $968.3 million, and the state will transfer its surplus into supporting affordable housing efforts. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] Under Maine state law, the Budget Stabilization Fund is allowed to reach a maximum of 18 percent of that Fiscal Year’s General Fund actual revenue, which based on Fiscal Year 2023, amounts to $968.3 million The Fund reached its maximum after the state ended FY 2023 with a…

Through March of 2023, there were more than of 1.6 million pending asylum applications in the United States — a backlog larger than the total population of Maine, and made worse by the Biden administration’s border release policies, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies. That massive backlog bears heavily on the legal statuses of the thousands of migrants in Maine who have applied for asylum status since arriving in the United States. [RELATED: City of Portland Relocates Asylum Seekers to Hotels in Freeport and Lewiston to Clear Expo for Maine Celtics] These asylum applications fall into…

Portland Police announced Tuesday that they have arrested a 17-year-old Honduran national in connection to the abduction of a 10-year-old child from Baltimore, Maryland. The Portland Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division said it was contracted by the Baltimore Police Department in regards to the abducted child, who was taken from Baltimore and believed to be in Portland. Portland Police worked with the Baltimore Police Department and the FBI in order to locate the 10-year-old, who has been successfully reunited with their parents. In a Wednesday press release, Portland Police said that a 17-year-old “juvenile Honduran national” was charged in relation…

Portland Department of Health and Human Services Director Kristen Dow updated the City Council Monday on the progress of the city’s Encampment Crisis Response Team (ECRT) in moving homeless individuals into housing from the city’s largest encampment along the Fore River Parkway Trail. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] In an Aug. 11 memo to Mayor Kate Snyder and the Portland City Council, Dow said that the number of tents citywide grew to 237 as of Aug. 10, up from 214 on July 17. As of Aug. 11, the Fore River encampment accounted for 64 of…

Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday a new initiative to help Maine schools recruit, train, and retain educators through pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs to address Maine’s educator workforce shortage. The initiative will be funded in part by Gov. Mills’ Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan, while also receiving support from the federal government through the U.S. Department of Labor. The governor’s Jobs & Recovery Plan, approved by the Legislature in 2021, is Mills’ plan to invest nearly $1 billion in federal funds to help Maine recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. “As the daughter of a longtime public school teacher,…

A Tuesday post on the subreddit community for Portland claims that residents in the city’s West End neighborhood received a flyer asking citizens to contact city officials over public health and safety concerns caused by the homeless encampment on the Western Promenade. [RELATED: ‘Millsvilles’: The Maine Wire Visits Portland’s Drug-Infested Tent Cities] Source: reddit.com/r/portlandme, user: apart_tale4982 The flyer lists several events that it claims have taken place at the Western Prom encampment in recent weeks: June 28, 2023: Outdoor furniture, bikes, plants, BBQ grills stolen from multiple West End homes. August 3, 2023: Homeless man threatens the life of a…

Former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted by a grand jury in Georgia on Monday on charges that they formed a criminal racketeering enterprise in an attempt to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. The nearly 100-page indictment, which comes after an over two-year investigation, is the fourth criminal indictment levelled against the former president this year — Trump has ongoing cases in New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C. [RELATED: Biden DOJ Indicts Trump for Jan. 6 Role] Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis initially launched an investigation into Trump’s alleged participation in a…

On Monday U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins, Angus King, and Congressman Jared Golden announced a $194,000 federal grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to modernize the electric grid and improve the energy resilience for the Mi’kmaq Nation in Aroostook County. The funding will go toward strengthening the Mi’kmaq’s power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters. “Access to reliable energy should always be a given,” said Senators Collins and King and Congressman Golden in a joint statement. “We’re glad the Mi’kmaq Nation is getting the federal resources they need to help keep their homes warm, lights on, and…

The $445 million Fiscal Year 2024-2025 supplemental budget passed by the Maine Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills in July will direct $3.5 million in state funding to school districts in order to assist English Language Learner (ELL) students. The $3.5 million will go to the ELL Hardship Fund, which was established last year by the Legislature, and will be distributed across several school districts, with the funds becoming available at the end of October. The Portland School District will receive an additional $784,174.25 from the ELL Hardship Fund to hire staff and provide services to ELL…

U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has filed four articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, including bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud and financial involvement in drug and prostitution transactions. “It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” said Rep. Steube in a press release last Friday. “He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens.” “The evidence continues to mount by the day – the Biden Crime Family has…

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he will be appointing the U.S. Attorney from Delaware, David Weiss, as special counsel in the ongoing investigation into the president’s son, Hunter Biden. [RELATED: Susan Collins Rips Hunter Biden Plea Deal, Questions President Biden’s Involvement in Suspect Foreign Business Deals] https://youtu.be/ZOwpaAy7pJQ Weiss was nominated in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2018. Weiss launched an investigation into Hunter Biden beginning in 2019, and has led to two federal misdemeanor charges on tax crimes and a felony gun possession charge, the subject of a plea deal which…

Tucker Carlson released an interview Thursday with the former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to discuss the intelligence and security failures surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building. [RELATED: Selling the Biden ‘Brand’: Tucker Carlson Interviews Ex-Hunter Biden Business Partner Devon Archer] While Carlson was still employed at Fox News, he recorded an interview with Sund which the network never aired and which he no longer owns. Now that Carlson has launched his own independent show “Tucker on Twitter,” he invited Sund to his studio to conduct a second interview about what he saw and experienced…

Portland Police announced Wednesday that they are investigating the death of a 58-year-old man at a homeless encampment in the Western Promenade cemetery area. On Wednesday, at approximately 2:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of an unresponsive male who was inside of a tent in the Western Promenade encampment. The man was pronounced deceased a short time later, and the department is now investigating the incident as an unattended death. An autopsy will be conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to determine the cause and manner of death of the 58-year-old. The Western Promenade encampment is…

Maine’s Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona expressing her concern over the agency interpreting the 2022 “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” (BSCA) to withhold federal funds from schools with hunting or archery programs in their curriculum. Sen. Collins was among 15 Republican Senators who voted in favor of the bill, which was spurred on by calls for gun control legislation following the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and at a school in Uvalde, Texas. [RELATED: Susan Collins Among Republicans Who Voted For Bill That Allowed Biden Admin to Block…

Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability James Comer (R-Ky.) released a third bank records memorandum Wednesday which outlined how President Joe Biden’s family members and their business associations received tens of millions of dollars from foreign oligarchs during Biden’s vice presidency. [RELATED: Susan Collins Rips Hunter Biden Plea Deal, Questions President Biden’s Involvement in Suspect Foreign Business Deals] The Committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Bidens and their associates from when Biden was vice president to former President Barack Obama, including from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1689260391036010497?s=20 Devon Archer,…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday the suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit for dereliction of duty and incompetence during her tenure that endangers public safety and welfare. Worrell was the beneficiary of a last-minute $1.5 million ad campaign run in Orange and Osceola counties, a campaign that was funded by a group tied to left-wing megadonor George Soros in 2020. The political committee behind the ad campaign, “Our Vote Our Voice,” received $1 million from Democracy PAC, a political committee set up by Soros. Soros has funded advertising campaigns for several state prosecutors, including…

The Maine Department of Public Safety provided an update to a July shooting in Lewiston that resulted in the deaths of two individuals. On Sunday, July 30, shortly after 10:18 a.m., Lewiston Police responded to a report of a shooting on Knox St. One individual died at the scene, and the second person died at Central Maine Medical Center after being transported from the scene. A post mortem examination by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta on July 31 concluded that the cause of death for both individuals was gunshot wounds, and the manner of death was…

On Monday, Maine State Police Troopers from the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unity and Southern Field Troop apprehended two fugitives wanted in Oklahoma for charges related to the sexual abuse of a minor and the manufacturing of child pornography. The two fugitives were traveling through Maine in a tractor-trailer truck owned by Semi Transport INC of Chicago, Illinois, the company at which they were both employed. The company was unaware of the pending charges against the fugitives and were fully cooperative with police. An investigation led troopers to 400 Killick Pond Road in Hollis, the address of bottled water company Poland…

Following a tense Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) board meeting in July that was adjourned after a parent raised concerns over pornographic books in the district’s school libraries, a board member called the police on a group of parents speaking peacefully with the district’s superintendent outside of the meeting. [RELATED: Maine School Board Shuts Down Discussion of Pornographic Books, Police Called on Parents] During the July 17 MSAD #51 board meeting, Scott Jordan of Cumberland, the parent of a child in the district, used his public comment time to present documents to the board showing that Cumberland’s Greely…

In a letter sent Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) declared a state of emergency due to “rapid and unabating increases” in the number of newly arriving migrants and refugees. Gov. Healey attributed the state of emergency to federal policies on immigration and work authorization, inadequate production of affordable housing over the last decade, and the end of COVID-era food and housing security programs. [RELATED: Maine Governor Wants to Resettle 75,000 Foreign-Born Migrants in Maine by 2029…] More than 5,500 families, including very young children and pregnant women, are living in emergency shelters and…

Rising costs and logistical issues have led to a series of delays in recent weeks for at least 10 offshore wind projects across the U.S. and Europe totaling $33 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The trouble has surfaced just weeks after Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an offshore wind power bill that will hand billions in taxpayer-funded contracts to wind power port and turbine developers. “At the moment, we are seeing the industry’s first crisis,” said Anders Opedal, chief executive of Norwegian offshore wind manufacturer Equinor, in a WSJ interview. The Norwegian company and BP are working together to develop…

Maine’s Democratic House leadership blamed “older white guys” in their party for opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill in a bid to motivate, and accused a Republican representative of using fake tears while speaking on the House floor, texts obtained by the Bangor Daily News via the state’s Freedom of Access Act show. The texts reveal that on June 22, Democratic leadership was scrambling to find the votes to pass the controversial bill, LD 1619, through its first roll call in the House. [RELATED: Maine House Votes to Approve Gov. Janet Mills’ Controversial Late-Term Abortion Bill in Major…

Portland Police announced Monday the arrest of a Lewiston man over the weekend in connection with two incidents at the Commercial St. Starbucks and Becky’s Diner. On Saturday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m., Portland Police responded to a report of a male bothering customers and causing a disturbance at the waterfront Starbucks on the corner of Market St. and Commercial St. The male refused to identify himself, and officers arrested him and took him to the Cumberland County Jail after speaking with sidewalk vendors outside of the coffee shop. Immediately following this first call, police received a report of a…

Eighty-seven-year-old retired teacher and Brunswick resident Marjorie Perkins fended off an assault by a teenage home invader, and then fed him snacks in her kitchen while she called the police on her rotary phone. Shortly after 2 a.m. on July 26, Perkins awoke and saw a man standing over her in bed. “I woke up to see a male standing over me by my bed, telling me he was going to cut me,” Perkins told News Center Maine. Perkins, who lives alone, said that she got out of bed and put on her shoes to get ready to defend herself. “I…

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey released a letter Friday sent to Chief Jared Mills of the Augusta Police Department announcing the completion of his office’s investigation into a 2021 shooting of a suicidal man at an Augusta homeless shelter. The shooting resulted in the death of 34-year-old Dustin Paradis of Augusta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a9wYqHFdiM The incident in question occurred on the evening of Oct. 13, 2021, when a 9-1-1 caller reported an assault at the Bread of Life Homeless Shelter in Augusta and a person cutting his wrists with a knife. Surveillance footage showed that prior to the 9-1-1 call, Paradis was…

“The allegations against Hunter Biden are serious, and they do deserve the same kind of in-depth investigation, particularly since in some of the reports President Biden is cited as well,” Sen. Susan Collins said. “Now, I don’t know whether those reports are accurate or not, but that’s why they need to be thoroughly investigated.” “We need to have an equal system of justice here, and surely it is telling that the judge refused the plea bargain that was worked out between Hunter Biden and the prosecutor,” she said. “That’s unusual, for a judge to refuse a plea bargain. And that…

Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shared newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives and Biden administration officials that show the White House pressured the social media company to censor posts regarding COVID-19. https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1687116316073930752?s=20 In July 2021, President Biden told reporters that social media companies are “killing people” by allowing certain statements about vaccines to be posted on their platforms. “They’re killing people – I mean they’re really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” Biden said in 2021. “And they’re killing people.” It’s now widely understood that the vaccinations never…

In the final installment of a three-part interview series with former Trump lawyer John Eastman, Chairman of the Board of the conservative think tank the Claremont Institute Tom Klingenstein explores the prudence of Eastman’s guidance to former President Trump on the legality of delaying the certification of electors on Jan. 6, 2021. A third indictment against Trump was announced Tuesday by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, which charges the former president with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official…

As illegal crossings over the southern border surge and Maine reckons with a migrant crisis of its own, the U.S. Border Patrol is seeking to hire more agents in Maine as part of a national hiring spree. “We are currently hiring nationwide, to include all of our locations in Maine,” said Mark Phillips, a Special Operations Supervisor at the Houlton headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “This is an opportunity that has not come along in over a decade. The USBP usually only hires for southern border locations.  Usually, in order to get back to Maine, you have to work…

The ACLU of Maine is calling upon the owners of Cyr Bus Line to end its practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to board buses in order to interrogate customers regarding their immigration status without a warrant. [RELATED: Biden Admin to Maine: Get Ready for Busloads of Migrants] In a Wednesday press release, the Maine ACLU alleged that CBP is taking advantage of a Cyr Bus Line rest stop in Houlton, in order to inspect Cyr buses with drug-alert dogs and conduct blanket interrogations of all customers. In letters to Cyr Bus Lines on June 1…

Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. debt rating on Tuesday from the highest rating of AAA to AA+, citing “expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years” and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance.” [RELATED: Bidenomics: A Look at Maine Manufacturing by the Numbers] The decision drew criticism from the White House, with both President Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying they strongly disagree with the decision. “We strongly disagree with this decision,” Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Tuesday. “The ratings model used by Fitch declined under President Trump and then improved under President…

Maine Sen. Susan Collins was among 15 Republican U.S. Senators who voted in favor of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” (BSCA), a bill signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 which is now being used by the Department of Education to withhold funds from elementary and secondary schools with hunting or archery programs in their curriculum. The Department of Education confirmed to Fox News Digital Monday that the agency is prohibiting funds for schools with shooting sports activities nationwide, funds which were earmarked under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. “This prohibition applies to all…

Ousted Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson released an interview Wednesday with Devon Archer, an ex-business partner of Hunter Biden who testified Monday to the House Oversight Committee. In his testimony, Archer revealed that Hunter Biden had put his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone during business meetings more than 20 times over a ten year period in order to sell the Biden “brand.” [RELATED: Ex-Hunter Biden Partner Devon Archer Testifies Then-VP Joe Biden Put on Phone During Business Meetings 20+ Times to “Sell Brand”] Tucker Carlson began his interview by asking what specific skills Hunter Biden brought to…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on the Biden Administration to control the border and provide more aid to his city as it struggles to accommodate the arrival of tens of thousands of illegal alien, some of whom have applied for asylum status. Mayor Adams first declared a state of emergency with an Emergency Executive Order in October of last year, a measure which he has since extended and that remains in effect as of July 29. “Eventually this [is] going to come to a neighborhood near you,” Adams said in a press conference Monday. “We need to…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Saturday that he has sent an official criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice after newly surfaced emails from 2020 appear to contradict Dr. Fauci’s claim in a 2021 Congressional hearing that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. [RELATED: House Oversight Report: Top Scientists Suppressed COVID Lab Leak Hypothesis to Protect China] In a July 2021 Congressional hearing, Sen. Paul asked Fauci if he wished to retract his earlier claim that the NIH had never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,…

An insider at MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children who are taking hormonal pharmaceuticals show up to the hospital’s emergency room undergoing severe mental health crises. The whistleblower’s claims were first reported by Fox News, but the Maine Wire has not been able to independently verify the sources identity or claims. [RELATED: Transgender Youth, Like Any Other American, Deserve the Highest Quality of Care] The source, who is described as being familiar with patient care information at MaineHealth, voiced their concerns to Do No Harm, an organization that seeks…

Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business partner Devon Archer sat down Monday for a closed-door transcribed testimony before the House Oversight Committee. [RELATED: “Can you ring your dad?”: Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Father on Speakerphone With Foreign Business Partners, Ex-Partner to Testify] According to Fox News senior Congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, Archer testified that Hunter Biden put his then-Vice President father Joe Biden on speakerphone during business meetings over 20 times in order to sell “the brand.” https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1686082659850555392?s=20 Archer also testified that Hunter was placed on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma to enhance the “brand,”…

Last week city officials in Sanford suspended a syringe exchange program and cleaned up a homeless encampment at Heritage Crossing near Weaver Drive, which local business owners said was making them feel unsafe and causing their businesses to suffer. The Maine Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (MECDC) partners with several nonprofit organizations that run “Syringe Service Programs” throughout the state, which provide sterile syringes to people in exchange for dirty ones in an effort to reduce disease and encourage the safe disposal of sharps. The nonprofit in charge of the needle exchange program in Sanford is Maine Access Points…

When a flyer produced by the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the state’s abortion laws became politically problematic for Gov. Janet Mills’ push for a late-term abortion bill, the governor’s staff coordinated with top AGO employees to have the guidance deleted from their website, according to internal emails obtained by the Maine Wire. The emails also revealed that AGO employees worked with a Planned Parenthood executive to craft the public guidance on the state’s abortion laws to make sure it wouldn’t deter minors from having abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. After Assistant House Minority…

A plea deal that would have allowed President Joe Biden’s son Hunter to avoid jail time for two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun possession charge fell through Wednesday after the presiding federal judge expressed concern over the agreement. Hunter Biden arrived at a federal court in Delaware Wednesday morning where he had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for failing to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income from 2017 and 2018. [RELATED: Hunter Biden Strikes Deal on Federal Criminal Tax Charges, Felony Gun Possession Charge] The President’s son had…

The Office of the Maine Attorney General announced Wednesday that they have charged a deputy superintendent of two state correctional facilities with theft and bribery. Gerald E. Merrill, Jr., Deputy Superintendent of the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston and the Downeast Correctional Facility in Machiasport, is alleged to have engaged in a long-running scheme using state funds to purchase products from certain vendors in exchange for illegal kickback payments. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) launched an investigation after auditors noticed an “irregular volume of funds being spent on purchase cards under Merrill’s control.” “These allegations that a public official…

An official White House transcript appears to differ with President Joe Biden’s Tuesday remark that his administration had “ended cancer as we know it.” On a video recording of President Biden’s remarks, he appears to say “I said ‘I’d cure cancer.’ And they looked at me like, ‘Why cancer?’ Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We ended cancer as we know it.” https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1683923720908201997?s=20 The official White House transcript of Biden’s remarks, however, states that the president said “We can end cancer as we know it.” In February of 2022, the Biden-Harris administration announced an ambitious…

Note: If you’re an employee of the state of Maine who would like to share information with the Maine Wire, you can always drop us an email. The labor union that represents Maine’s state government employees was stunned Tuesday evening when negotiators from the Mills Administration rejected their pay raise proposal and instead counter-offered with an agreement that fell far short of their expectations. The Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA), which is part of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and is Maine’s second largest labor union, has been locked in tense negotiations with the Mills Administration all year. The…

In his first visit to Maine as president, Joe Biden is slated to visit the state Friday as part of a tour discussing his economic policies, which he has dubbed “Bidenomics.” “The President will discuss how Bidenomics is driving a manufacturing boom and helping workers and innovators invent and make more in American,” the White House said in a statement Sunday. CBS13 learned Tuesday that President Biden will be visiting Auburn Friday from Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque. Levesque told CBS13 that the White House reached out to him on Monday to inform him of the president’s upcoming visit. The mayor…

Hunter Biden brought in $1.3 million selling his paintings at his September 2021 New York art gallery debut, and one buyer later won a prestigious appointment from President Joe Biden, according to internal documents obtained by Business Insider. [RELATED: “Can you ring your dad?”: Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Father on Speakerphone With Foreign Business Partners, Ex-Partner to Testify] The prices of Hunter Biden’s pieces were priced between $75,000 and $500,000 — the price point sparked ethics concerns which the White House addressed in July of 2021. Sources familiar with the sales arrangement reached between the White House and SoHo New…

In a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Republican Senator from Utah and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on GOP donors to team up to force “lost-cause” candidates out of the 2024 Republican primary and to back the candidate with the best chance of beating former President Donald Trump. Sen. Romney is a longtime opponent of Trump — in March of 2016 Romney gave a speech at the University of Utah in which he denounced then-2016 primary front-runner Donald Trump, calling him a “phony” and “con man.” Romney called on voters to support whichever candidate out of Sen. Ted Cruz,…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Biden Monday to counter threats from the U.S. Department of Justice to sue the state over its deployment of a floating buoy barrier system in the Rio Grande. [RELATED: Texas Installs 1,000 ft Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande to Deter Border Crossings] Installation of 1,000 feet of the buoy border barrier began in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 7. The floating barrier, made of four-foot-wide buoys with attached webbing, are meant to deter and impede migrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally by swimming across…

Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California-based conservative think tank the Claremont Institute, has released the second of a three-part interview series with former Trump attorney John Eastman. [RELATED: Claremont Institute’s Tom Klingenstein and John Eastman Discuss 2020 Election Fraud in New Interview] In part one of the interview series, Klingenstein pressed Eastman to give a thorough account of fraud in the 2020 presidential election — which Eastman believes was substantial. Watch part one of Tom Klingenstein’s interview with John Eastman here. Klingenstein moves in this second interview to understand — if the 2020 election really…

A massive joint-agency search for a missing paddle boarder on Edgartown Great Pond near former President Barack Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard mansion concluded Monday morning when the body of the paddle boarder was recovered by Massachusetts State Police Underwater Recovery Unit divers. The search for the paddle boarder began Sunday evening when Martha’s Vineyard police and fire agencies responded to a call for a male paddle boarder who had “gone into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface.” Another paddle boarder was with the victim at the time, shortly before…

In over a dozen instances, Hunter Biden put his then-Vice President father Joe Biden on speakerphone with his overseas business partners during meetings, according to Biden associate Devon Archer, who is set to testify before Congress this week. [RELATED: Joe ‘Big Guy’ Biden in Room While Hunter Shook Down Chinese Businessman Henry Zhao: Whistleblower] Archer, who was first subpoenaed in June but has canceled his scheduled depositions three times, is expected to testify before the GOP-led House Oversight Committee this week before Congress’ month-long August recess. “We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the…

Fox News, the purported conservative cable news network, matches employee donations to numerous left-wing charities and activist groups, according to a report from Blaze Media. [RELATED: Fox News Encourages Employees to Donate to LGBT Charities, Monitors Them With ‘Woke AI’] While putting on airs of supporting conservative causes, Fox will apparently match employee charitable contributions to the Satanic Temple, the Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), insider sources told Blaze Media. The Trevor Project runs anonymous online forums where children can get advice from adults on their gender and sexuality — in September of last…

The City of Portland is teaming up with the Quality Housing Coalition (QHC) and the Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) to launch a new program to house asylum seekers in the homes of landlords and homeowners with extra space, according to a Tuesday city press release. [RELATED: Portland Officials Meet With Asylum Seekers for Second Closed-Door Meeting Regarding Post-Expo Housing Arrangements] As almost 300 asylum seekers face being kicked out of temporary housing at the Portland Exposition Building in August, city officials have scrambled to find them accommodations. In late June, Mayor Kate Snyder and City Manager Danielle West…

The FBI had confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop in November 2019, almost a full year before the New York Post article on the laptop was published and censored and painted as Russian disinformation, according to testimony revealed Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee. [RELATED: FBI Told in 2017 That Bidens Allegedly Pressured Burisma to Pay $10 million to Have Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired] Chair of the Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter Thursday to FBI Director Christopher Wray sharing testimony from Laura Dehmlow, Section Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF). https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1682024280853295105?s=20 In…

The FBI was informed by a confidential human source (CHS) in 2017 of a possible bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter coercing executives at the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma into paying them to get rid of a prosecutor investigating the company. [RELATED: Grassley Claims Ukrainian Exec Has Audio of Bidens Discussing Bribery Scheme] According to a bombshell FBI document publicly released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the CHS had several meetings with Burisma executives starting in late 2015, during the Obama Administration. The CHS first provided details of those meetings to the FBI…

U.S. Representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district Jared Golden was the only House Democrat to vote in favor of reinstating airline pilots who were fired or forced to resign due to vaccine mandates. [RELATED: Golden Backs “Lukewarm” Debt Ceiling Deal But Criticizes Cuts to IRS] The Wednesday evening vote was on whether to adopt an amendment to H.R. 3935, the “Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act,” that would require airlines to reinstate pilots who lost their jobs because of the vaccine mandates. The bill is meant to address a shortage of pilots that began during the COVID-19…

A transgender former New Hampshire State Representative is now facing federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and aiding and abetting for allegedly using a connection with a daycare worker to collect explicit images of children. [RELATED: Transgender Former NH State Rep Arrested on Child Porn Charges] Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Nashua, will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date and if convicted for the sexual exploitation of children will face at least 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, up to a lifetime of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.…