Ken Fredette wins back his old job leading Maine House Republicans
The 62-year-old lawyer from Newport replaces Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham, R-Winter Harbor, who won an open Maine Senate seat Tuesday.
The 62-year-old lawyer from Newport replaces Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham, R-Winter Harbor, who won an open Maine Senate seat Tuesday.
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In the battle between Democrats and Republicans for Senate control, the reliably red state of Kansas has moved from the edges to the center of the map. Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska...
In Alaska 70% of the vote is in, but still around 91,000 vote still remain while Mississippi their voters are in the 95%, around 37,000 votes still remain. NewsNation's Alex Caprariello takes a deeper look into...
President Donald Trump lashed out at the Senate on Friday evening, saying the body is “killing our country” and needs to “act” when it returns for the lame-duck session next week. “The Senate has to act. The Senate...
Democratic and Republican lawyers and groups trade sharp legal letters about procedures for counting ballots in tight race Where Trump and Republicans lost the midterms – a visual analysis of the key states Democrat...
New York Times: Democrats flipped the Senate and House, leaving Trump weakened.
The Democratic former Maine House speaker defeated Republican lawyer Bobby Charles and independent state Sen. Covered by 3 outlets: 2 lean left, 1 are centre.
Evan Vucci/REUTERS A MAGA Republican who lost his bid to become Maine’s next governor has immediately pointed the finger of blame at Donald Trump. Bobby Charles was decisively beaten by Democrat Hannah Pingree in...
The race for the Maine House seat represented by outgoing Rep. Election officials announced Thursday that a competitive Maine House race will be decided by ranked-choice voting, as Republican Paul LePage fights to defeat Democrat Matt...
Retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) congratulated his likely successor, Republican candidate Paul LePage, on winning Maine’s 2nd Congressional District and flipping the seat red despite the blue wave that swept the...
Dunlap would have to net the vast majority of blank and write-in ballots to overtake Paul LePage.
Voters demand a new way of doing things in Washington. Covered by 8 outlets: 3 lean left, 5 are centre.
Photos of Natalie Harp holding an umbrella while other officials walked uncovered at Joint Base Andrews sparked online debate as Stephen Miller's appointment as chief of staff dominated headlines.
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's new chief of staff, was reportedly seen chatting and giggling with the president's close aide Natalie Harp.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Reuters Stephen Miller and Natalie Harp were spotted giggling together and chatting as they left the White House on Friday shortly after the president’s personnel...
Donald Trump’s favorite aide Natalie Harp appears to have taken control of the president’s cellphone as everything crumbles around him. The Independent reported Wednesday that their attempt to contact Trump at his...
Seven Siegel, a Gorham town councilor, won 3,229 votes to serve Maine House District 109.
Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) has formally launched a bid to chair the House Financial Services Committee, setting up a challenge to the panel’s longtime Democratic leader, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). In a letter to his Democratic...
House Democrats Eye Their Own Crypto Market Structure Bill With A Bigger SEC Role After Sweep Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine , House Democrats are discussing a plan to turn Rep. Maxine Waters' Crypto Investor and...
Democratic Marine veteran JoAnna Mendoza defeated incumbent Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) in Arizona’s toss-up 6th Congressional District. Mendoza won 53% of the vote compared to Ciscomani, who received 44.9%, according to the Associated...
Democrat JoAnna Mendoza won election Thursday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Arizona's 6th Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent Juan Ciscomani.
House Democrats are already working on a replacement for the Clarity Act, one day after taking both chambers. Reporting from Eleanor Terrett says the draft would give the SEC a larger role, narrow the CFTC, and add ethics restrictions....
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U.S. A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was...
Eric Lee / REUTERS Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is warning that Donald Trump’s inner circle will shrink dangerously small with Stephen Miller running the staff. Without the guidance of his fired chief of...
Officials have spent months on an order invoking Section 501(p) of the tax code, which would let the president suspend groups’ tax-exempt status immediately, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A judge has twice tossed the president’s defamation complaint, which centered on an article about a birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Cato Institute fellow Walter Olson criticised a Wall Street Journal editorial for dismissing concerns about Trump's potential influence on the 2026 midterm elections, citing executive action and litigation
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Maine's Senate election pits incumbent Republican Sen. One of Tuesday's midterm races to watch is in Maine, where five-term Republican incumbent Sen. Covered by 27 outlets: 15 lean left, 5 are centre, 7 lean right.
Canada First: Democrats Aim The Opening Shot Of Their Tariff Rollback At Trump's Smoot-Hawley Levies... But Veto Math Says Good Luck Three days after a blue tsunami swept both chambers, Democrats have picked their...
“Collins was an institutionalist when Trump was tearing down the very institutions of government.”
Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Republican Susan Collins in a major Maine upset, ending her nearly 30-year Senate career. Al Jazeera's Eva McKend reports from Portland. #USMidterms #MidtermElections #USPolitics...
Maine’s soon-to-be ex-Sen. Susan Collins complained Thursday that voters weren't satisfied with her record when it came to Donald Trump — despite her vote to convict him. “Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to...
Johnathan Bauer, 28, died at the scene.
Electric unicycles can reach 93 mph and can be extremely dangerous on the road. State laws often do not explicitly mention electric unicycles.
Federal officials announced that analyses show U.S. fisheries may meet the federal standard for protecting endangered right whales.
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"Ideal habitat precisely describes Maine’s working forest. We have young trees and abundant bugs."
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WESTBROOK – Maine credit unions put their People Helping People philosophy into action this October, participating in the state’s second annual Credit Union Kind Day through acts of kindness, volunteerism and charitable giving. Observed...
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Portland Hearts of Pine and Maine Wildness have been wildly popular, with tickets for both teams selling out in minutes.
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ROCKLAND — On Oct. 30, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization OUT Maine announced the opening of a new 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization to expand their work for LGBTQIA2S+ rights and civic engagement across the state: OUT Maine Action Fund....
Maine's loon productivity — the number of surviving chicks per breeding pair — is growing slightly, according to research from Birds Canada.
Democrats said they won at least 87 seats in the 151-member House and 22 of 35 Senate seats as of early Wednesday.
By 3 p.m., Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' office had heard of no significant problems at the polls, she said.
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The state championship games will take place on Saturday at Edward Little High School in Auburn.
Maine voters on Tuesday pick their next governor, with two-term incumbent Gov. Janet Mills (D) term limited and ineligible to seek reelection, in a race that has been somewhat overshadowed by the high-profile Senate contest in the...
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Orono, Fort Kent, Camden Hills, John Bapst and Wisdom High will have both their boys and girls teams seeking championships.
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HomePort is converting a former Deer Isle nursing home into 23 housing units for older residents and essential workers.
Collins said Democrats are using a national political strategy to distract voters from local issues, while the latest Fox News poll shows her Maine Senate race tied at 49%.
A public schools administrator in Maine wants dogs kept out of classrooms, citing Islamic traditions that consider canines unclean, despite the therapeutic and teaching value his critics say the animals can provide.
Donald Trump was re-elected as US president with a promise to carry out “mass deportations”. Polls showed it was a popular policy at the time. But two years into the reality of his plan, public opinion has soured. Analysts say it has...
BDN Exclusive U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington held the closed-door meeting Saturday at the Ellsworth Elks Lodge with Troy Jackson.
Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed cited Islamic beliefs about dog saliva as impure during a Portland Public Schools policy committee meeting on classroom pets.