Strong winds caused several panels of a new barrier wall to fall over into Mexico.
2020
Posted inNation & World, News
Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat
President Donald Trump has been conspicuously quiet about a big issue that has much of the globe on pins and needles.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Democratic AGs sue to force U.S. to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
Before Virginia’s vote this week that made it the critical 38th state to approve the ERA, Nevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018 were the most recent to ratify the amendment.
Posted inNation & World, News, Sports
Vanessa Bryant: ‘We are completely devastated’
Kobe Bryant’s widow made her first public comment since the helicopter crash that killed her husband, 1 of their daughters and 7 other people.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
U.S. economy grew modestly last quarter against a hazy outlook
Growth slowed significantly in 2019 because of a weaker global economy and trade war uncertainties.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
U.S. life expectancy rises — a little
However, U.S. life expectancy, which has been on a downward trend, is two years lower that the average for the 10 other wealthy nations.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Maine bill would ease restrictions on trucking of live lobster
Truck drivers transporting live lobsters might be from some hours-of-service restrictions.
Posted inLife & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Les Miserables’
Issa Perica is a talented young actor with remarkable presence, J.P. Devine writes.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: A Maine school, an election and an assault on democracy
The kids at Coffin School in Brunswick thought they’d elected a chickadee for their new school. They thought wrong.
Posted inAnimals, Local & State, News
An inspirational tail: Collie goes from animal cruelty seizure in Solon to Puppy Bowl
Duncan was one of more than 130 animals seized from a business in Solon in July.