The Supreme Court is allowing a 12-year-old transgender girl to continue competing on her middle school’s girls sports teams while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.
Katherine Lee
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Winter to summer temps in the space of a week
You know the saying about the weather in Maine and how, if you don’t like it, wait 15 minutes? This time we will have to wait a little longer than 15 minutes, but the change will be well worth the wait. Winter will hang around Maine to start the holiday weekend. There will even be […]
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Bowdoin graduate 1 of 2 Tennessee lawmakers expelled from legislature over gun-control protest
The banishment of Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, a Bowdoin College graduate, was a move the chamber has used only a handful of times since the Civil War.
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Applications for unemployment rising, but still at low levels
The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of applications has exceeded 200,000 since early February – above previous estimates.
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Blinken says WSJ reporter ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has ‘no doubt’ that Russia has wrongfully detained Evan Gershkovich, a Bowdoin grad and American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested last week on spying allegations.
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U.S. job openings slipped to 9.9 million in February
Vacancies were down from 10.6 million in January, the Labor Department says.
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Trump is heading to court. Here’s what to expect
Former President Donald Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime.
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Tennessee House moves to expel 3 Democratic reps for joining gun control protest
The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move and has further fractured an already deep political division inside the Tennessee Legislature.
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Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts in hush money scheme
The case involves payoffs through an intermediary to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to conceal an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 election.
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Chinese surveillance balloon picked up intelligence from U.S. military sites
An American fighter jet shot down the balloon near the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4.