The moderate Republican wields a key vote and says she won’t make a decision until she has a chance to review Brett Kavanaugh’s paperwork and testimony.
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LePage signs 4 bills aimed at improving child protection system
The governor had proposed the measures, one of which would shift state policy away from family reunification and toward the best interests of the child.
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Ex-Trump campaign adviser sentenced to 14 days in prison
George Papadopoulos, the first campaign aide sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation, said he was “deeply embarrassed and ashamed” for having lied to the FBI.
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Expert panel calls for sweeping election security measures
Its report calls for conducting all federal, state and local elections on paper ballots by 2020.
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State Senate candidate under fire for social media posts called racist, homophobic
Republican Rich Donaldson of Georgetown, who is challenging Democratic Rep. Eloise Vitelli, shared images and jokes that mocked Mexicans, gays and prominent Democrats in 2016.
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Obama says Trump is ‘the symptom, not the cause’ of division
The former president spoke at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as he begins reenter the political fray ahead of the midterm elections.
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Democratic super PAC spends almost $500,000 to back Janet Mills for governor
The nationally funded group uses a new social media tactic to build an audience with clickbait content.
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Two weeks after hospital stay, LePage skips trade trip to U.K. and Ireland
The governor, who was hospitalized last month for ‘discomfort,’ is in good health, his spokesman says.
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Gubernatorial candidate Alan Caron begins statewide campaign road trip
The independent says he plans to visit every city and town in Maine before Election Day.
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Collins not swayed by email that Kavanaugh critics see as sign he would reverse Roe v. Wade
A spokeswoman for Maine’s Republican senator says a 2003 email by the Supreme Court nominee doesn’t contradict past statements that he views the landmark abortion decision as ‘settled law.’