Last month the U.K. refused dozens of French fishing boats a license to operate in its territorial waters.
2021
Posted inNation & World
Sudan arrests 3 critics of coup as pressure mounts on military
Protests denouncing Monday’s takeover continue in the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere, and many businesses shut in response to calls for strikes.
advertisement
Posted inNation & World
Stacey Abrams’ PAC donates $1.34 million to wipe out medical debts
The Fair Fight Political Action Committee said it has donated $1.34 million to the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to wipe out debt with a face value of $212 million that is owed by 108,000 people in Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Posted inNation & World
U.S.-China relations tense as Biden heads to twin summits
The president again won’t be meeting with Xi Jinping, but the tensions and aggravations between the world’s two largest economies will nonetheless be on ready display.
Posted inElections, Maine, News
Big drop in absentee ballots this year, but in-person voting hard to predict
Voters shattered absentee voting records in 2020 during the height of the pandemic and a close presidential race, but absentee returns are down sharply this year.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Movie set, site of fatal shooting, showed ‘some complacency’ with weapons
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza says 500 rounds of ammunition – a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and suspected live rounds – were found while searching the set of the Western ‘Rust.’
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Dana Wilde: Inside Indian summer
Those transparently beautiful autumn days with comfortable weather are a sort of grace period increasingly receding, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Waterville planners get first look at expansion proposal for Mitchell School
The Planning Board on Tuesday heard a presentation for a 5,000-square-foot kindergarten classroom addition to the George J. Mitchell School that’s intended to provide additional space for children during the pandemic.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Little damage reported, some outages in central Maine as nor’easter brushes by region
Spotty power outages and a few fallen trees marked the passage of a late October storm that blew across Maine on Tuesday into Wednesday.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Democrats detail billionaire tax to fund Biden spending plan
About 700 taxpayers would be affected, according to a summary of the plan.