LEWISTON — Ifraax Saciid-Ciise, a Lewiston Somali interpreter and nonprofit director, is now the face of a widening backlash over…
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LEWISTON, Maine — Safiya Khalid, a former Lewiston city councilor and former employee of Gateway Community Services, is facing sharp…
Former CNN host Don Lemon defended left-wing rioters who disrupted an evangelical church service Sunday believing a pastor was connected…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is escalating his campaign’s law-and-order message with a new social media video…
LEWISTON, Maine — Republican House District 94 candidate Janet Beaudoin drew a wave of supporters to a Thursday campaign event…
PORTLAND, Maine — U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat, posted a video to social media warning that Immigration and…
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac urged Somali-Americans in Maine to pour “our time our money our skills”…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills says she now supports a “full investigation” into Gateway Community Services after state audits…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, testifying during Monday’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee meeting in Augusta, acknowledged…
LEWISTON, Maine — What should have been a routine step to fill a vacant City Council seat turned into a…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Former Maine Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason officially launched his campaign for governor on Wednesday, jumping into…
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives attempted to ban Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston from entering the House chamber alongside other…
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced Monday that its Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the organization after…
By Nicole Silverio of the Daily Caller News Foundation Nick Shirley, the viral YouTuber who exposed the fraud happening at…
Gov. Janet Mills has spent months on the campaign trail boasting that she “stood up to” President Donald Trump, repeatedly…
As working families in Maine and Massachusetts get crushed by higher taxes, higher rents, and higher grocery bills, two governors…
Federal agents visited a property in Lewiston on Tuesday that has been the source of repeated reports of fraud and…
Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (South Portland) is facing intensifying scrutiny as a widening state and federal investigation into alleged…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
Maine Republican legislative leaders will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss allegations of MaineCare fraud involving Gateway Community Services,…
A condemned building tied to a federal drug bust is continuing to appear on paper as a business address and…
Maine residents will see higher taxes and fees across multiple everyday purchases starting January 1, 2026, as a slate of…
The dark horse in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary went full bore on Christmas for his last, big end-of-year money…
After passing major tax cuts earlier this year, Republicans are laying out a broader affordability agenda they hope will start…
YouTuber Nick Shirley posted video Friday showing multiple purported Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, including one which reportedly received…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is again under fire as the League of Women Voters of Maine steps in…
As Maine continues to grapple with fallout from the Gateway Communities scandal and other nonprofit controversies, Gov. Janet Mills has…
Maine politics in 2025 were defined by confrontation, controversy, and growing public distrust, as a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, mass…
Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a…
Maine leads the nation in one important category, a national news network recently suggested: dynastic politics. Looking ahead to the…
A widening investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee into alleged Medicaid fraud has placed new scrutiny on…
After its Christmas break concludes, Congress is set to return in January with a host of unfinished business that could…
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Mark Warner (D) aimed at strengthening the security of…
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case against a former top aide to Democratic New York…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services has suspended MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after a newly completed state…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The two-term ex-senator, 53, wrote…
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in…
Hunter Biden told podcaster Shawn Ryan in an interview that aired Monday that former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New…
When a politician resorts to using animals as props, you know there must be a problem. Embattled Maine Democrat Secretary…
President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military has launched large-scale attacks on ISIS targets in Syria, one week after…
The Trump White House is predicting what it calls the largest tax refund season in U.S. history, with senior economic…
The controversies surrounding Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows continue to pile up, raising serious questions about competence, accountability, and…
Governor Janet Mills (D) has again opted not to sign a controversial piece of legislation, allowing new “ghost gun” regulations…
An investigation by The Robinson Report suggests migrant NGOs with no connection to the Lewiston shooting survivors were allowed to…
President President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing all executive departments and federal agencies to close on Wednesday, December…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing major changes to federal marijuana and cannabinoid policy, aiming to expand…
Federal prosecutors alleged Thursday that Minnesota may have lost billions of dollars to fraud in its Medicaid program, the latest…
A once-quiet coastal town has been thrown into turmoil after local officials voted to allow an 8-year-old biological boy who…
The widening rift between Maine’s Democratic leadership and federal immigration authorities intensified Thursday after state Sen. Matt Harrington (R) posted…
The U.S. House moved to ban transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers for minors on Wednesday with a narrow,…
Across Maine, unanswered questions are no longer isolated mysteries but instead form a pattern, one marked by official silence, selective…
Amid the millions of dollars of government waste buried in the thousands of Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) no-bid contracts obtained…
The House of Representatives rejected a bipartisan attempt Wednesday evening to reign in President Donald Trump’s authority to use force…
A sweeping $900.6 billion national defense bill backed by Susan Collins (R) has cleared Congress and is headed to the president’s…
Four Republicans serving in the United States House of Representatives broke with party leadership Wednesday to sign onto a Democrat-led…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is pushing back hard against a federal lawsuit seeking voter information, even as she…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined the vast majority of Democrats in the House to oppose a bill on Tuesday that…
Norman Podhoretz, a longtime chief editor of Commentary magazine who once said he lost many good friends over his support…
In a unanimous 7–0 vote Tuesday night, the Lewiston City Council approved a non-binding resolve urging the incoming council to…
If Maine voters were looking for a warning sign about the direction of Janet Mills’ U.S. Senate bid, they just…
A state senator who was a Republican before he decided the only ostensible way to win the governor’s office was…
The State of Maine and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows have filed a motion to dismiss the case brought recently…
Ex-Senate President Troy Jackson has a sexy idea designed to appeal to your wallet. That’s right, a Democrat who says…
Maine elections chief Shenna Bellows has a new ally trying to stop the federal government from making sure illegals aren’t…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he plans to classify the deadly drug fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,”…
Iman Osman quietly completed his term on the Lewiston School Committee Monday night, attending his final meeting without participating as…
Portland Mayor Mark Dion warned Monday night that looming federal budget cuts could strain city services while raising sharp concerns about the…
Despite claims from two Rockland councilors that they have received threats in the wake of their anti-ICE votes, police say…
Gov. Janet mills (D) announced on Monday she will allow a bill restricting how Maine law enforcement may cooperate with U.S. Immigration…
No human is garbage. No human should ever be treated badly or cast out because of their country of origin.…
Governor Mills, Is It Me — or Is It You? Governor, I’ve asked myself this question more than once over…
A legal challenge over voter participation rules ahead of a Democratic caucus in Lewiston moved into court Friday, adding tension…
The United States Senate considered two proposals this week to extend the expanded health insurance tax credits first introduced during…
Twenty House Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues Wednesday to rebuke the Trump administration on federal union organizing. The bipartisan legislation, spearheaded…
A Democrat U.S. Senate contender from Maine is suddenly showing off a new suit, while taking a dig at a…
New accounts from former Bates College classmates are raising serious questions about the past conduct and political character of Democratic…
Just when you thought a young Mainer might be catching a break, The Establishment struck back with a new poll…
A citizen’s initiative aimed at ending the sale and production of recreational cannabis in Maine can now begin collecting signatures…
The Trump Administration has rolled out TrumpCard.gov, a new federal portal outlining the structure of the high-dollar immigration initiative known…
The nomination of Judge Andrew Benson to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine cleared a major hurdle…
Critics abound, and they always will. They should. Pursuing truth is a high calling. Our Founders urged us to test…
Having disastrously failed at a job promotion, ex-VP Kamala Harris is nonetheless trying to be stone-cold serious about her legacy.…
A new omnibus poll from Pan Atlantic Research, a Portland-based research company headed by former Maine Democratic Party chair Victoria…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Angus King (I) announced Tuesday that ten Maine organizations will be receiving a combined…
The political firestorm surrounding Gateway Community Services, the Somali-run nonprofit accused of defrauding Maine’s Medicaid system, is rapidly escalating, and…
Current Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, now running for the Second Congressional District House seat soon to be vacated by…
Another day in Lewiston brought yet another cascade of questions, contradictions, and controversies, from nonprofit leaders refusing to comment, to…
On Monday, a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s (R) Executive Order pausing wind energy projects that he signed…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has reached out to members of the Trump Administration urging them to provide relief to…
A member of the Goffstown, New Hampshire, school board claimed that allowing a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter would cause…
By Owen McCarthy I grew up in a trailer in Patten, the son of a logger and a lunch lady.…
Illegal border crossers who need sanctuary from U.S. limits on their conveniently discovered “freedoms” have a home in Rockland, Maine.…
The Trump administration on Monday rolled out a $12 billion relief package, funded by tariff revenue, aimed at farmers who…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is partnering with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on new legislation aimed at reshaping Affordable Care…