Jordan began working at the Portland Press Herald in February 2022 covering fisheries and civil litigation. Since starting her journalism career in 2013, she has worked as a staff reporter for Midcoast weeklies The Republican Journal, Camden Herald and Courier Gazette, covering a range of beats, and for The Portland Phoenix, covering education, business and the waterfront. Her articles have also appeared in The Maine Monitor and The Free Press. In 2016, her coverage of Maine State Prison was recognized by The New England First Amendment Coalition. Before writing for newspapers, Jordan worked for the MDI Biological Laboratory engaging students in eelgrass restoration and other projects of the Community Environmental Health Lab, as a marine science educator for Boston Harbor Islands National Park, and on the trail crew at Acadia National Park. She lives in Belfast with her husband, stepdaughters and two cats.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2023
Brazilian petrochemical company settles with city where mining destroyed entire neighborhoods
Braskem is one of the biggest petrochemical companies in the Americas, owned primarily by Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras and construction giant Novonor, formerly known as Odebrecht.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
New U.S. sanctions are aimed at choking off Russia’s access to battlefield supplies and revenue
The latest sanctions build on those imposed on Russia when the U.S. and other Group of Seven nations rolled out a wave of global actions during a Japan summit in May.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Former Trump State Department official convicted for attacking police during Capitol riot
Federico Guillermo Klein was convicted of 12 counts, including 6 charging him with assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices
Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to set ethics rules for the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after man threatens to burn Quran in Stockholm
The attack came ahead of a protest by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Quran during a demonstration last month in Stockholm.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Wall Street’s rally fades after Tesla and Netflix fall
Tesla and Netflix are 2 of the first huge tech-oriented companies to report their profits for the spring, and a lot is riding on the results.
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PublishedJuly 20, 2023
Amid labor turmoil in Hollywood, Broadway seems to avoid a strike
The Broadway League and Disney Theatrical Productions announced Thursday they had reached a tentative agreement that had threatened a strike as early as Friday.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2023
Suspect in 4 Georgia deaths killed in shootout with police, 3 officers wounded, authorities say
Authorities say officers shot and killed a man in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest the suspect in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta
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PublishedJuly 13, 2023
Vermont braces for more rain in wake of historic flooding
Transportation officials were moving equipment to areas that were considered more flood-prone to prepare for the storms as they continued to evaluate damage.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2023
Soda sweetener aspartame now listed as possible cancer cause. But it’s still considered safe
Aspartame joins a category with more than 300 other possible cancer-causing agents, including things like aloe vera extract, Asian-style pickled vegetables and carpentry work. The guidance on use of the sweetener, though, isn’t changing.
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