In efforts to roll back Obama-era mpg improvements, the White House contends that freezing the standards at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives a year.
Donald Trump
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Canada being shut out of NAFTA talks between Mexico, U.S.
The Canadian negotiating team has been told that the U.S. is focusing first on bilateral negotiations with Mexico.
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Up to 168 acres of legally protected dunes wiped out in building of Trump golf course
The sensitive sites in Scotland had developed over 4,000 years, but records show some are now gone. A Trump executive says the special attributes of the land remain.
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Greg Kesich: Republicans stand firmly on Team Trump
The president may not look or talk much like a traditional Republican, but the whole party is on board with his policies.
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Cynthia Dill: Being fiscally conservative means something different these days
President Trump, Gov. LePage & Co. use record debt as a good excuse to cut social programs.
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Maine Voices: There are some things that should never be rebranded – like Air Force One
Changing the look of such a powerful symbol to the world would be like painting the White House purple.
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LePage stay at Trump hotel again figures in landmark court case
U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte again cites the governor’s stay at Trump International during a visit to lobby the administration last year in a case that represents the first legal test of the Constitution’s “emoluments” clause.
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Trump, European Union leaders announce a trade path toward ‘zero tariffs’
The two sides agree to hold off on further tariffs as part of trade talks aimed at averting a crippling trade dispute involving the lucrative automobile market.
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Juror screening begins in Paul Manafort’s fraud trial in Virginia
The judge tells the jury pool that the trial is expected to last three weeks as he prepares them for the types of pre-selection questions they’ll have to answer.
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White House plans to give $12 billion in aid to farmers hit by Trump tariffs
It’s the latest sign that growing trade tensions between the U.S. and other countries will not end soon.