Schools recruiting top athletes could now offer tens of thousands of dollars in education-related benefits.
Katherine Lee
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Watch: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs as Interior Secretary Haaland visits Acadia
Deb Haaland touts park improvements and investments on a day she toured Acadia National Park, one of the biggest nature tourism drivers in the state.
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Pandemic swells Medicaid enrollment to record 80 million people
The pandemic-caused recession and a federal requirement that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled until the national emergency ends swelled the pool of people in the program by more than 9 million over the past year, according to a new report. The latest figures, released Thursday, show Medicaid enrollment grew from 71.3 million in February 2020, […]
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Lawmakers mark Juneteenth with talk of ‘abolition amendment’ to end forced labor by felons
Lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery — forced labor for convicted felons — to thrive.
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U.S. stocks lower after Fed official sees interest rate hikes in 2022
Stocks were broadly lower Friday after a Federal Reserve official said that the nation’s central bank might need to raise interest rates as early as next year.
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Janet Malcolm, provocative author and journalist, dies at 86
The author of numerous influential books and magazine stories, the Prague native practiced a kind of post-modern style in which she often called attention to her own role in the narrative.
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Opioids rip through U.S. workforce, with deaths at record level
Opioids are behind about three-fourths of the overdoses, according to Wednesday’s data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Reports find U.S. housing crisis is getting worse
Two studies released Wednesday found that the nation’s housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic, likely putting homeownership out of the reach of lower class Americans.
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MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7 billion to 286 organizations, including 2 in Maine
Two Maine arts organizations together received $4 million from Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, a graduate of Oxford Hills high school.
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Heat bakes West, forcing Texas to gird for blackouts
Temperatures will top 100 degrees Fahrenheit from Montana to Southern California Tuesday.