The outcome should allow the prime minister to fulfill his plan to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union next month.
Carol Semple
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New Jersey attackers linked to anti-Semitic fringe movement
The deadly rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching.
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House votes to empower Medicare to negotiate drug costs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill would cap Medicare recipients’ out-of-pocket costs for medicines at $2,000 a year, but the measure has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Augusta man finds a pile of cash. What he does next is cause for cheer.
Raynard Grover saw what he thought was debris in the road. Hardly.
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Temperature ties record high for Dec. 10 in Portland
Don’t get too comfy – the high Wednesday will only reach about the freezing point.
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Maine message in a bottle dated 1983 turns up on Cape Cod
The bottle contained a message from a Jonesport, Maine, girl, but efforts to contact her haven’t been successful.
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Six people killed, including a police officer, in hourslong New Jersey gun battle
The gunfire started near a cemetery, then the shooters stole a rental van and went to another part of the city, where they shot up a kosher supermarket.
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Saudi aviation student legally bought gun used in Florida naval station attack
The FBI says it has found no signs of any link between a cyberattack on computer systems of Pensacola and the recent attack at the naval air station there.
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Maine’s top court upholds conviction of Jay man who killed his girlfriend
James Sweeney was sentenced to 38 years in prison for beating Wendy Douglas with a baseball bat while she slept.
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U.S. digs into background of Saudi named in navy base shooting
Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani began training there in August 2017, and it included initial pilot training, basic aviation and English-language instruction.