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The Latest: Trump undercuts health experts – again – in debate over reopening schools

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. WASHINGTON— The White House seating chart spoke volumes. When the president convened a roundtable this week on how to safely reopen schools with coronavirus cases rising, the seats surrounding him were filled with parents, teachers and top White House officials, including the […]

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On this date in Maine history: July 10

July 10, 1962: The newly built Andover Earth Station successfully transmits a television image from Andover to the Pleumeur-Bodou Ground Station, on the Brittany coast in northwestern France, via the Telstar 1 satellite, which was launched that morning in Florida. It is the first trans-Atlantic transmission of a TV signal via satellite. The first image […]