New sanctions target members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, a notoriously violent group.
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Louisiana’s new law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms churns old political conflicts
Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in ‘large, easily readable font’ next year.
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Waterville City Hall exterior to get $85,000 paint job
The City Council on Tuesday voted 7-0 to award the $85,000 contract to Clean Cut Painting Co. of Bethel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Donald Sutherland, whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘The Hunger Games,’ dies at 88
Kiefer Sutherland, the actor’s son, confirmed his father’s death Thursday.
Posted inNation & World, News
Putin signs deals with Vietnam in bid to shore up ties in Asia to offset growing isolation
Putin’s recent visits to China and now North Korea and Vietnam are attempts to ‘break the international isolation,’ said Nguyen Khac Giang, an analyst at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
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Russia obliterates Ukraine’s front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network
Russia has accelerated its destruction of Ukraine’s front-line cities in 2024 to a scale previously unseen in the war using the glide bombs and an expanding network of airstrips, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Maine home insurance rates are rising. Blame climate change.
More frequent and intense weather extremes and rising sea levels will drive up Maine home insurance premiums by 19% this year, the second-highest increase in the U.S., a recent report says.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fails to qualify for CNN debate with Biden, Trump
Both the Biden and Trump campaigns fear that Kennedy could play spoiler in what’s anticipated to be a close general election.
Posted inNation & World
Supreme Court upholds tax on foreign income over challenge backed by business interests
The justices left in place a Trump-era provision that is expected to generate $340 billion, mainly from the foreign subsidiaries of domestic corporations that parked money abroad to shield it from U.S. taxes.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, News
Central Maine’s L.C. Bates Museum has preserved natural history for more than a century. Now it must preserve itself.
Volunteers say the work is extensive, costly and a labor of love for the museum in the Hinckley area of Fairfield.