This was not supposed to be as big a moment as the last one. President Barack Obama’s second inaugural would be witnessed by a smaller crowd than his first. It would not be as historic because it would be the second time an African American took the presidential oath, not the first.

France’s surprise intervention in Mali may well turn out to be more than French President François Hollande bargained for.

Like any successful company, Wal-Mart knows a public relations coup when it sees one.

President Barack Obama is accelerating one of his biggest and riskiest foreign pledges: a withdrawal from Afghanistan that will hand the fighting to Afghan troops by spring instead of summer with nearly all U.S. forces gone by the end of this year.

State officials will have lot of explaining to do as the Legislature unpacks Gov. Paul LePage’s two-year budget proposal.

Maine is a fairly small, fairly law-abiding state. So it comes as a shock to hear that Pine Tree State residents lead the list of tollbooth scofflaws in Delaware.

Gov. Paul LePage has proposed keeping $200 million to fund the state budget rather than distribute it to cities and towns in an effort to balance the budget.

The images are still fresh in our minds. We still see the shock on the parents’ faces, the tired eyes of the first responders, and the steady parade of funerals for innocent children who were gunned down in their classrooms.

Who says we are a divided nation? A full 75 percent of Americans tell pollsters they agree when it comes to their opinion of Congress. They disapprove.

U.S. President Barack Obama’s move last year to delay a decision on a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline extension was widely — and rightly — regarded as self-serving. He was up for re-election and needed to curry favor with the eco-electorate.