The Pentagon reported on March 2 that five U.S. military personnel have been found responsible for the inadvertent burning of Qurans at a prison in Afghanistan last month that prompted a week of rioting and violence in that country.

We’re not meteorologists or soothsayers, so we’re not going to speculate as to whether this year’s spring severe weather season will rival last year’s in intensity, destructiveness and loss of life.

It would be easy to call the gridlock in Congress laughable, except for the real impact it has on our everyday lives — such as the gridlock on highways.

People love their smartphones and all the amazing things that the devices can do for them.

A month ago, we welcomed the news that Gov. Paul LePage and Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen had rolled out their education reform agenda. At the time, we noted that some of the elements of the plan likely would be controversial — such as using public money to pay tuition at religious schools — but believed […]

Any teenager can buy a movie ticket for “This Means War,” a comedy featuring gunplay, fisticuffs, car crashes and “romantic stalking.”

For the last three months, the LePage administration has been clear about two things: the size of the shortfall in the Department of Health and Human Services budget and its cause — overly generous eligibility standards for the state’s low-income health care safety net.

It’s not clear that Israel is convinced, but President Barack Obama deserves credit for his forceful argument that the Jewish state shouldn’t precipitously attack Iran’s nuclear program.

Back in the ’90s, Maine looked like an island of moderation in a country divided. We had two Republican senators, two Democrats in the House, a closely split Legislature and an independent governor who was broadly popular across the political spectrum.

The political reform movement Americans Elect has chosen an odd way to go about opening up the presidential nomination process to disaffected voters: Instead of being transparent in all of its activities, the group that plans to put an Internet-selected ticket on the ballot in all 50 states won’t say where it gets its money.