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The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) alerted providers last week that unless lawmakers approve the proposed supplemental…
As Armenian-Americans in Maine voice their outrage with past anti-Armenian advocacy by Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) newly appointed Director of…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, suggested during a recent interview with Politico that President…
Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New…
Frenchville resident and Voice of the People radio host Dan Smeriglio calls himself “an activist first,” so he was ready…
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans,…
Maine politicians love to brag that 67 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources. Sounds impressive, right? It’s a…
When you run for office without the backing of a political party, it can seem like a steeper climb so…
Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the…
A Democrat lawmaker has proposed allowing candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of State to participate in the Maine Clean…
The Trump administration has fired Darcie McElwee, the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, according to the U.S.…
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk released new information about the U.S. Social Security database on Sunday, showing…
President Donald Trump is on track to have all of his Cabinet nominees confirmed despite a slim Republican majority in…
Maine state Rep. Randall Hall (R-Wilton) is facing multiple forgery charges after an Oxford County grand jury indicted him on…
The push for boilerplate ‘Red Flag’ laws that would give authorities the ability to remove firearms and deny Second Amendment…
Judge Lance Walker issued a federal preliminary injunction on Thursday, halting Maine’s recently established 72-hour waiting period between purchasing and…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs held a public hearing on Wednesday to consider Rep. Benjamin Hymes’…
The Senate confirmed Director of National Intelligence (DNI) nominee Tulsi Gabbard Wednesday morning. She was confirmed in a vote of…
Worcester, Massachusetts’ city council voted 9-2 on Tuesday to declare their city an official sanctuary city for transgender and “gender…
Tired of your straw decomposing before you’re halfway through your drink? Sick of only being able to buy LED bulbs?…
Elon Musk’s visit to the Oval Office on Tuesday was no simple courtesy call, a new executive order setting strict…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) is renewing his push for his “Kids Off Social Media Act,” a bipartisan…
After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature were poised Monday afternoon to once again invoke an…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins has stated that she will be voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker made a Facebook post for Black History Month celebrating Assata Shakur, an FBI’s most wanted terrorist…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would launch a two-year, state-funded pilot program to provide inmates recently…
President Donald Trump proclaimed the first ever Gulf of America Day from Air Force One on Sunday while en route…
David Asher, a long-time U.S. advisor on national security, appeared on Canada’s state-funded CBC news on Sunday to defend Trump’s…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to end the controversial practice of same-day voter registration in Maine. Rep. Barbara…
As Maine faces an impending half-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) considers a flurry of tax increases…
The annual tradition of visiting an auto mechanic to get an inspection sticker could come to an end if a…
Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden urged his party to pump the brakes on their reflexive, hair-trigger responses to Republican advances…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins reintroduced legislation Thursday to criminalize protests that block highways. Collins’ Safe Passage on Interstates Act…
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman protested the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, claiming it violates the separation between church and state.…
The Kennebec County Democratic Committee pulled its support from a planned protest outside the State Capitol in Augusta on Wednesday…
New Hampshire State Rep. Travis Corcoran (R-Weare) is working to pass a bill through the state’s Republican-controlled legislature that would…
A Maine-based nonprofit funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers is using its social media presence to teach illegal aliens tips and…
As Elon Musk moves to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency’s support for the discovery of novel…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
More than 20,000 federal employees have announced their resignations in response to President Donald Trump’s severance offer, which would allow…
A Maine Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would classify political affiliation as a protected class under the Maine…
The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in a…
The Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, voted Monday evening to confirm fracking executive Chris Wright as secretary of Energy. Senators voted 59…
A bipartisan group of five New Hampshire state legislators put forward a bill calling on the federal government to declare…
Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Mathea Elizabeth Larson Daughtry (D-Cumberland) will name members of special…
A bill introduced in the Maine Legislature by a Democratic lawmaker seeks to help alleviate the caseload on the state’s…
Lawmakers in Augusta heard arguments on Monday for and against a series of bills that would reform Maine’s campaign finance…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Monday published a thread on X outlining what steps Congress, federal courts and the…
A Republican lawmaker has proposed amending Maine’s constitution to clearly state that only United States citizens may vote in state…
Are you frustrated with the unorthodox was Mainers elect federal officials or do you think it works well? Members of…
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday. The forest green hats with…
Several of the tax increases and changes included in Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) proposed biennial budget are set to have…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation on Tuesday into the Denver, Colorado Public Schools District for converting…
A group of 29 Maine Republicans sent a letter to the state’s Department of Education (DOE), urging it to comply…
An effort is underway to give Maine citizens the right to elect their constitutional officers, including the Secretary of State,…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered on Tuesday to give all federal employees nearly eight months of…
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) to 11 years in prison on Wednesday…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memorandum freezing some federal grant spending that could have…
Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, faces a series of challenges to her…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) delivered her 2025 State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt of New Hampshire held the Trump Administration’s first official press briefing Tuesday afternoon. At…
10:55am State House, Augusta This morning the Maine Senate took up the nomination of Heather Sanborn to be Maine’s next…
The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s Secretary of Defense in a vote held late Friday night. With three…
Matt Brackley had a sense of foreboding long before the FBI showed up at his home two days after he…
President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source…
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon on Thursday for 23 pro-life activists who were incarcerated after the Biden Administration…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
A sanctuary city mayor, who once suggested he’d use his police force to stop deportation officers and be willing to…
President Donald Trump was lectured about showing ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children during a sermon from a left-wing…
President Donald Trump signed a wide array of executive orders related to immigration policy and the southern border on his…
The nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee appeared to accept preemptive pardons issued by former President Biden…
President Donald Trump is expected to issue hundreds of Executive Orders on his first day in office, including several orders…
Just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden issued presidential pardons for retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, former Chairman of…
President Joe Biden released a statement Friday declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “has become part of our Constitution.”…
A group of Republican lawmakers in Maine are hoping to repeal Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) this legislative session. LD 234…
With three recent votes, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1) has taken extreme positions on immigration and transgender ideology, including opposing…
Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden has reintroduced his proposed bill that would implement a universal 10 percent…
Heather Sanborn, Gov. Janet Mills’ pick to serve as Public Advocate for the state, was confirmed by the Maine Legislature’s…
The Department of Defense (DOD) under President Joe Biden spent more in September than in any previous month since 2008,…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday morning in the case concerning a potential ban of the popular,…
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the nation, to Hillary Clinton and…
The Biden administration announced on Friday it will provide protections to hundreds of thousands of El Salvadoran nationals living in…
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to allow concealed carry license holders to carry their guns in…
Sen. Craig Hickman (D-Kennebec) has sponsored a bipartisan bill that would grant the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee (GOC) the right…
A bipartisan bill imposing an “impact fee” on megayachts has been introduced by Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) and co-sponsored by…
The first bill of Maine’s 132nd Legislature is a governor’s bill aimed at implementing the recommendations from the Maine Infrastructure…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) wrapped up the 118th Congress last week without missing a single vote, extending…
The Mills administration managed to botch the rollout of their own new Paid Family and Medical Leave program, mistakenly listing…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday. The pronouncement came during Trump’s pre-inauguration press…
The Democratic majority on the Joint Rules Committee voted Monday to preserve the controversial practice of “concept drafts,” brushing aside…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign from office Monday in the wake of a public dispute…
Maine’s Secretary of State received more than 170,000 petition signatures on Monday from a conservative group that is looking to…
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has officially been reelected as Speaker of the House, allowing lawmakers to move forward with their…
First lady Jill Biden collected tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders throughout 2023, according to documents…
A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s administration with a…
Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This…