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Speakers at the "Girl First" rally want the state to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports — an issue that has landed Maine in the national spotlight during the past month.
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The proposal funds the federal government through September and avoids a government shutdown on Friday. But it's taken on heightened significance amid the Trump administration's unilateral slashing of the federal bureaucracy with the help of billionaire Elon Musk. -
Maine said it wouldn’t break state law to follow President Donald Trump’s order barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats. -
Good Shepherd Food Bank said it also recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold for Good Shepherd — and food banks around the country — through at least June. -
The proposal is designed to resolve a weekslong stalemate between Republicans and Democrats and seemed poised to pass with the two-thirds margin needed to pass as an emergency. However, all but two of the Senate Republicans who supported it during initial votes did so on enactment. -
Dr. James Jarvis, the Association's president-elect, said the resolution is in response to concerns about the erosion of support for public health at the federal level.
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Officials are still assessing the scale of property damage in several states after an outbreak of twisters and dust storms hit the region over the weekend that left dozens dead. -
In an all-time record, 14 of the 68 teams in the men's tournament all come from one conference — the SEC. In the women's, UCLA and South Carolina are top seeds. Games tip off this coming week. -
In the image published online by the Holy See Press Office, the pontiff was seated in a wheelchair and praying in the private chapel of Rome's Gemelli Hospital. -
The Trump administration has invoked a 227-year-old law, the Alien Enemies Act, to target Tren de Aragua, a gang with its roots in the prisons of Venezuela. Who are they and how wide is their reach? -
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
Monday—The origins and stories behind Wabanaki names of places like rivers, mountains, towns and other places—part of our series "Name Calling on Maine Calling"
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