The president presses for $1,200 stimulus checks and new aid for airlines and other businesses hard hit by the pandemic.
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Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
Pence and Harris spar over pandemic in vice presidential debate
Both candidates sidestep some difficult questions, in a debate far more respectful than the opening presidential debate eight days earlier.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Sen. Collins says she’s still working on coronavirus relief package
Maine’s senior senator called it a ‘huge mistake’ for the president to end negotiations on a relief package, but her election opponent says Collins has been ineffective.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News, Politics
Trump administration to sharply limit skilled-worker visas
Department of Labor officials say the move will help more Americans get back to work, but critics argue that H-1B holders fill critical needs.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Maine, News, Politics
Mask mandates, health care key issues in fast-paced 1st Congressional District debate
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, seeking a 7th term in Congress, faces a challenge from conservative Republican Jay Allen.
Posted inElection 2020, News, Politics
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Maine Republicans’ appeal on ranked voting
The party’s last-ditch effort would have stopped ranked-choice voting from being used for the first time in Maine’s presidential election.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Top Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive for virus
Miller is an architect of the president’s ‘America First’ foreign policy and restrictive immigration measures.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, News, Politics
Five questions as Pence, Harris prepare for debate
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris meet on the debate stage for the first and only time Wednesday night in Utah.
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Kamala Harris and Mike Pence set to debate as virus spreads at White House
The candidates are less likely to sling the sort of attacks that highlighted the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland between President Trump and Joe Biden.
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Collins says Trump set poor example by removing mask at White House
Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins says she was ‘shocked’ to see the president discharged from the hospital so soon.