Maine is among the places where police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects and to enter potentially dangerous spaces.
Carol Semple
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U.S. offshore wind power gets jump-start with 1st lease auction
The auction Tuesday is to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in the deep waters off the West Coast, and similar auctions are in the works off Oregon’s coast next year and in the Gulf of Maine in 2024.
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Researchers are looking for lost graves at Native American boarding school
Children from over 40 tribes were brought from as far away as Idaho and Maine to the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in central Nebraska.
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Maine lobster on menu for White House dinner with France’s Macron
The White House says Thursday’s state dinner for the president of France is meant to highlight the ties that bind the United States and its oldest ally.
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Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies at 79
The soulful British musician sang lead on many of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits.
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Indiana moves to penalize doctor who spoke of Ohio 10-year-old’s abortion
The state’s Republican attorney general has asked the state medical licensing board to discipline Dr. Caitlin Bernard for not reporting the Ohio girl’s child abuse to Indiana authorities and for allegedly violating patient privacy laws by discussing her case.
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Fed to keep rates higher for longer to cut inflation, chairman Powell says
Federal Reserve chief Chair Jerome Powell also signals that the Fed may increase its key interest rate by a smaller increment at its December meeting, only a half-point, after 4 straight three-quarter point hikes.
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House votes to avert rail strike, impose deal on unions
The bill would impose a compromise labor agreement that was voted down by four of the 12 unions representing more than 100,000 employees at large freight rail carriers.
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Railroad unions decry Biden’s plan to block possible strike
Lawmakers may be asked to vote this week to impose the terms of the deals the 12 unions agreed to in September, even though 4 of those unions representing more than half of the 115,000 rail workers rejected them.
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Landmark same-sex marriage bill wins Senate passage
It would require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed, and protect current same-sex unions.