Author: Edward Tomic

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.…

Portland City Manager Danielle West presented new recommendations on Monday that the Portland Police will be taking up in response to an April 1 neo-Nazi rally that led to a physical altercation between cops and counter-protestors. The neo-Nazi group of about 15 to 20 people, the Nationalist Social Club or NSC-131, paraded through Old Port, Monument Square, and outside city hall — where police broke up an altercation and the group dispersed without any charges being filed. None of the NSC-131 members present at the rally have been publicly identified. Although video of the altercation has not surfaced public, video…

Country Music Television (CMT) has stopped airing country music star Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” and its accompanying music video which features footage of left wing rioters, a CMT spokesperson told Axios Tuesday. The single was released in May of 2023, but its music video was not released until July 14. Aldean has been accused by commentators of writing “the modern lynching song,” due to some shots of the music video being shot in front of what appears to be the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. The Maury Courthouse was the site of the 1927…

Two IRS whistleblowers who allege the Justice Department interfered with an investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes will testify publicly for the first time 1 p.m. Wednesday before the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means Committees. [RELATED: New York Times Confirms Most Explosive Allegation of IRS Whistleblowers Alleging Biden Admin Cover-Up] Republican lawmakers claim that the whistleblowers’ testimony will reveal that the Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the law unequally when it comes to the Biden family. https://twitter.com/RepRussellFry/status/1681637431936794624?s=20 The House Ways and Means Committee originally released testimonies from the two whistleblowers in late June. One of the IRS whistleblowers is…

A Monday evening school board meeting for Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) adjourned after a parent raised concerns over pornographic books in the district’s school libraries. [RELATED: Most Maine Voters Want Parent “Opt-Out” Option and Safeguards for X-Rated School Books: MAINE WIRE POLL] Scott Jordan of Cumberland, the parent of a child in MSAD # 51, presented the board with documents showing that Cumberland’s Greely High School contains several obscene and pornographic books. https://rumble.com/v30ryus-school-board-in-maine-runs-away-from-concerned-parent.html According to Follet Learning’s Destiny Library Manager, Greely High School’s library stocks “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, a book which contains graphic…

Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo has become the target of media outlets alleging he commands a sinister network of “dark money” organizations that have shaped the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court and influenced the justices’ rulings. [RELATED: Leonard Leo on the Constitution, Guaranteed Rights, and the Supreme Court: “The Courts Are Not Meant to Make Law”] A June 30 opinion piece in The Guardian called Leo the “king of dark money,” and alleged his operation has been “working to influence some of the supreme court’s most consequential cases.” Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee recently sent a letter…

Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo joined the Maine Wire’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson for a wide-ranging interview about the Supreme Court, his judicial activism, and the state of American higher education. If you missed part one, you can find it here. Leo, the longtime head of the Federalist Society, has been involved as an advisor in the nominations of conservative Supreme Court justices from Justice Clarence Thomas to Justice Amy Coney Barrett. In Part 2 of the interview, Leo talks about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to end affirmative action in American colleges and universities. Leo believes that decision was just…

Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed its first advertiser, according to a report Sunday from CNBC. This comes just days after rumors circulated that Carlson was planning to start a new media company with his Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel. [RELATED: Tucker Carlson Hosts 2024 GOP Presidential Forum, Creating New Media Company: WSJ] Sources familiar with the matter told CNBC that Carlson agreed to a seven-figure advertising deal with Public Square (PublicSq.), a “pro-life, pro-family, pro-freedom” shopping app. Michael Seifert, CEO of Public Square, described the app as “the nation’s largest marketplace of businesses that have refused to go…

Al Diamon, a Maine columnist who has had his weekly column “Politics & Other Mistakes” published in numerous news outlets for the past 25 years, such as the Daily Bulldog and the Portland Phoenix, has written a column calling for the resignation of Maine’s House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross. [RELATED: Maine Media Runs Cover For House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ State Police Scandal and “Storm the Capitol” Rhetoric] The July 14 column, “Politics & Other Mistakes: Not suitable for work,” responds to an opinion piece written by former Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling for the Maine Beacon, entitled “In praise of…

In an exclusive interview with Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson, conservative legal activist Leonard Leo gave his opinion on how conservatives ought to address corruption in the administrative state, and revelations regarding the politicization of the United States’ intelligence agencies. [LISTEN: Maine Wire Podcast: Conservative Legal Activist Leonard Leo – Part 1] Leo also addressed overreach by federal regulatory agencies that have affected Maine’s lobstermen, social media censorship, and the importance of education on the constitution and the proper role of government. “What do you do to reign in an administrative state, or an intelligence community, that is becoming political…

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson sat down with conservative legal activist and Co-Chairman of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo to discuss the recent Supreme Court rulings, liberal smear campaigns, and why he’s decided to become a Mainer. Listen to Part 1 of the interview here. Part 2 will publish Tuesday morning. In addition to his work with the Federalist Society, Leo advised President Donald Trump on the selection and confirmation processes of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Leo is a longtime friend of Justice Clarence Thomas, aiding in Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings, as…

On Friday, former Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson hosted a forum event for five 2024 Republican primary candidates for president in 2024, in which he grilled the candidates on the Ukraine war, COVID-19, border policy and immigration, and “gender-affirming” treatments for minors. [RELATED: Tucker Carlson Hosts 2024 GOP Presidential Forum, Creating New Media Company: WSJ] The event, hosted by conservative media outlet the Blaze and called “The Summit”, featured Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. The…

An attorney for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has sent a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump, alleging Trump’s frequent comments on social media and rallies about him “could lead to [Hunter Biden’s] or his family’s injury.” [RELATED: White House Refuses to Acknowledge Hunter Biden’s Daughter] Abbe David Lowell, who represents Hunter Biden as part of Winston & Strawn LLP, authored the letter — sent Thursday to four Trump attorneys. “I am sending this letter to make a demand that your client, former President Donald Trump, cease and desist from making public statements about my client which are both…

An executive order signed Thursday by President Joe Biden will allow the the Pentagon to send up to 3,000 individual reservists to active duty in Europe in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. [RELATED: ‘This is about justice’: Zelensky Defends Use of Cluster Bombs in War Against Russia] Biden states in the order that “it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.” The order authorizes the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Homeland Security to order to active…

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is working with former White House advisor and co-founder of the Daily Caller Neil Patel to start a new media company, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. [RELATED: Fox News Viewership Falls Behind MSNBC After Dropping Tucker Carlson] Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that Carlson and Patel are seeking to raise more than $100 million to start a new company that could potentially be built on Twitter. A subscription-based model would drive traffic from Twitter to the company, where subscribers would be able to watch interviews and episodes…

An Ohio plastic surgeon known as “Dr. Roxy” who livestreamed her procedures on TikTok has been permanently banned from practicing medicine after the state’s medical board found she injured patients in front of hundreds of thousands of live viewers. [RELATED: Legislature Unanimously Approves TikTok Ban on Government-Issued Devices] On Wednesday the State Medical Board of Ohio voted to permanently revoke Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe’s (@doctorrroxy on TikTok) based on her failure to meet standards of care. The board had originally decided to suspend Grawe’s license in November on claims that she neglected her patients as she live-streamed their procedures, spoke…

Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs fund sanctuary states and localities that undermine immigration law and protect illegal aliens from federal authorities, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies. [RELATED: Bad Food, No Showers: Migrants Protest Outside Portland Expo Over “Awful Conditions,” Uncertain Future Benefits] The report focuses on three federal funding programs— the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. More than 40 percent of the available funds across these three programs were awarded to sanctuary cities, despite having adopted…

Portland Mayor Kate Snyder joined WGAN Morning News Host and CEO of the Maine Policy Institute Matt Gagnon Thursday to discuss the city’s response to its ongoing migrant and housing crises. Mayor Snyder revealed that Governor Janet Mills had not yet responded to the city officials’ most recent letter to the Governor asking for her support on a proposal to shelter asylum seekers at Unity Environmental University. The letter, sent June 29, also asked the Governor to use the National Guard to set up an emergency shelter if the Unity campus cannot be used for transitional housing. [RELATED: Unity College…

The U.S. Secret Service announced it has concluded its investigation into cocaine found at the White House without being able to identify a suspect, according to an official statement released Thursday. [RELATED: Texas Congressman: Secret Service May Have Already Identified White House Cocaine Suspect] The cocaine was found on July 2 in a cubby area in the West Wing entry area where visitors and tourists store electronics and personal devices prior to entry. Preliminary testing by EMS responders concluded the substance was cocaine, and it was then sent to the FBI crime laboratory and tested for advanced fingerprint and DNA…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the decision by the United States to send them cluster munitions to aid in their war effort against Russia, speaking Wednesday at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. “Russia constantly uses cluster munitions on our territory. It wages war exclusively on our land. It kills our people,” Zelensky said Wednesday. “This is about justice,” Zelensky added. “We defend ourselves, without using [these] weapons on the territory of other states.” Zelensky said that all cluster munitions supplied to Ukraine would be used “purely for military purposes” in the Russian-occupied southern and eastern regions of the country.…

FBI Director Christopher Wray denied that the agency is protecting President Joe Biden or his family during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing. The hearing marks the first time the FBI Director has testified before the Judiciary Committee since the Republicans won their majority in the 2022 midterm elections. House Republicans have been eager to investigate the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under Director Wray and the weaponization of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) pressed Wray to respond to a WhatsApp text from Hunter Biden to a Chinese businessman…

After a town hall event in Nashua, New Hampshire Tuesday evening, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took questions from the media about the migrant crisis, free trade, NATO expansion and how he sees the current state of the 2024 primary race. In Maine, we have a severe migrant crisis, thousands of migrants have come to very small towns who don’t have the resources to take them in, while U.S. citizens are on the street. What specific steps would you take as president to address not only the border crisis, but the people that are already here? “So my view is,…

A report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee on the suppression of the hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a virology lab found that Dr. Anthony Fauci employed “fatally flawed science” to avoid blaming China for the pandemic. Since April 2020, the GOP-led Oversight Committee has been investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their report focuses on the handling of a 2020 study entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin), which has been accessed 5.8 million times since it was published in the journal Nature Medicine, receiving the fifth most attention of any paper ever…

Academic achievement levels stalled and fell short of pre-pandemic trends for most K-12 students, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). [RELATED: U.S. Student Testing Shows Another Drop for 13-Year-Olds in Math and Reading: NAEP] The research organization, which has been assessing Pre-K-12 students for 40 years, tracked the academic progress of 6.7 million U.S. public school students in grades 3-8. The study examined the achievement gap between students in the 2022-23 school year relative to pre-pandemic years, and compared the COVID year student group to pre-pandemic students. According to the NWEA report, the…

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Monday that the Secret Service may have already identified the suspect who left a bag of cocaine at the White House last week. [RELATED: Mystery Surrounds Discovery of Cocaine at Biden White House] On Sunday, July 2, a small baggy of a white powder, later identified as cocaine, was found in a cubby in the West Wing entry area accessible to visitors and tourists. The discovery led to widespread speculation about who the Schedule II substance might have belonged to and how it may have found its way into…

Ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Lithuania, President Joe Biden told CNN over the weekend that the Russia-Ukraine war must end before the alliance can consider NATO membership for Ukraine. Biden told CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria that he considers it premature to add Ukraine to the alliance, and that there is disagreement on the issue among the other NATO member countries. “I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,” Biden said in the CNN interview. “For example, if…

LGBTQ+ student self-identification at Brown University has reached 38 percent of the student body, according to polling data collected by school’s student newspaper, the Brown Daily Herald. The Herald first collected data on Brown University students’ sexual orientation in 2010, when it found that around 14 percent of respondents said they were not straight, a proportion which has now more than doubled. Brown University’s percentage of LGBTQ+ identifying students is more than five times the national rate, according to a 2022 Gallup survey which found 7.1 percent of U.S. adults, and 19.7 percent of those aged 18 to 25, identify…

Installation of the buoy border wall ordered by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbot began Friday on the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. [RELATED: Border Agents Accidentally Let A Migrant On The Terror Watchlist Enter The US] Once finished, the floating barrier and its attached webbing will cover 1,000 feet in the middle of the Rio Grande. https://twitter.com/TxDPS/status/1677402476880842753?s=20 The floating barrier system, made of four-foot-wide-buoys which can be quickly installed and moved, is meant to deter and impede migrants who attempt to cross into the U.S. by swimming across the Rio Grande, a treacherous way to pass into the country…

Appearing in his first interview since leaving Fox News, on Friday Tucker Carlson joined comedian and actor Russel Brand on his podcast “Stay Free with Russel Brand,” discussing Big Pharma, the Russia-Ukraine war, immigration, censorship, January 6 and Donald Trump. The interview, which can be watched in full below, streamed live on Rumble to over 130,000 viewers. When speaking about former President Donald Trump, Carlson said that he thinks Trump’s emergence is the “most significant thing that happened in American politics in 100 years, because he reoriented the Republican Party against the wishes of Republican leaders.” “I’m struck by his…

On Friday Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional Delegation made a joint announcement that President Joe Biden has approved the a request for a “Major Disaster Declaration” for Maine counties impacted by a severe spring storm. The storm, which occurred April 30 and May 1, brought flooding, swelling rivers, power outages, tree damage, and more than $2 million in infrastructure damage to eight Maine counties. In June Gov. Mills requested that President Biden issue the Disaster Declaration for Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc, and Waldo Counties. “We are grateful that President Biden has approved Maine’s request for a Major…

The historic Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro, Maine, will be hosting the Portland-based drag show “Curbside Queens” for a performance on Saturday, July 29. The event offers general admission tickets to people aged 16 and up. “The Waldo Theatre welcomes Portland-based Curbside Queens as they spread the joy and celebration of the Queer experience and the art of Drag with the people of Maine,” the event page reads. “Creative dress is encouraged!!!” The event page says. The Curbside Queens are a traveling troupe of drag performers that use a pink shuttle bus named “Peg” to do shows in driveways, parking lots…

On Thursday Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives reaffirmed their support for a bill that would extend taxpayer-funded MaineCare benefits to illegal aliens and other non-citizens with qualifying low incomes, but made a series of concessions in decreasing the scope and fiscal impact of the bill. [RELATED: Maine House Approves Taxpayer-Funded MaineCare Coverage for Illegal Aliens] The bill, LD 199, was sponsored by the House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), and as initially proposed would have made all noncitizens over 21 with qualifying low incomes living in Maine eligible to receive MaineCare benefits, regardless of their immigration status. A fiscal…