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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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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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