14+ hour, 20+ min ago   (426+ words) President Donald Trump's proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (314+ words) Roughly 40 percent of the state is currently experiencing severe drought conditions. Maine’s wildfire danger is currently rated moderate by the Maine Forest Service, placing the state at Level 2 on a scale of 1 to 5. While a Level 2 rating is considered relatively…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (568+ words) A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child, who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (375+ words) President Donald Trump’s promise to give every adult U.S. citizen $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in November is drawing criticism from two members of Maine’s congressional delegation. Trump announced the proposal Wednesday at the Republican Party’s…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (465+ words) Janette MacAusland, of Wellesley, will continue to be held without bail, judge says The attorney for a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her two young children before fleeing to Vermont earlier this year asked the court Thursday to dismiss the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (253+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party's sagging fortunes in November. “If the Republicans win, you win…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (513+ words) President Donald Trump had been eagerly awaiting his trip to Texas for his Republican Party's midterm convention. But he was briefly delayed by the deployment of an inflatable emergency slide on the new Air Force One plane that was a…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (234+ words) A building at the Fisher Engineering headquarters in Rockland was evacuated after a machine caught fire, according to officials. Rockland Fire Chief Chris Whytock said that at about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, the Knox County Communications Center received a phone call from a…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (431+ words) President Donald Trump is heading to Dallas, Texas, for a Republican convention, marking the first time the GOP has held such an event ahead of midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. Democrats organized similar events in the 1970s and…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (669+ words) A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November election, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to get involved in the twisting and confusing legal battle. The decisions highlight the…...