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34 seconds agoThe decision on the Willow project – which some environmentalists have dubbed a 'carbon bomb' – is politically perilous for President Biden, who campaigned on pledges to end new drilling on public lands. -
at 2:53 PMThe search was the latest discomfiting moment for a president who has sought to contrast his sensitivity to rule-following with that of his predecessor Donald Trump, who faces a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents.
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It was not immediately clear whether the FBI search of the president's former office uncovered additional classified documents beyond those found on Nov. 2 by Biden's attorneys.
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January 31Secretary of State Shenna Bellows told lawmakers that she referred a case to the attorney general involving a rejected 2022 citizens initiative intended to prohibit noncitizens from voting.
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January 31The governor will speak to a joint session of the Legislature about her $10.3 billion two-year budget proposal.
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January 31Santos has faced numerous calls for his resignation and is facing multiple investigations by prosecutors over his personal and campaign finances and lies about his resume and family background.
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The president came to familiar terrain to promote his 2021 infrastructure law, a bipartisan win that is just now ramping up the spending on major projects.
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January 30McCarthy confirmed to reporters that he met with Santos but would not say what they discussed.
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at 9:25 AMThe Mills administration says it plans to mail out 200,000 a week, and that the 'vast majority' of the 880,000 eligible taxpayers should receive them by the end of March.
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January 29The speaker pledges that cuts to Social Security and Medicare would be off the table.
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January 29As the state enjoys a record surplus, lawmakers from both parties have submitted proposals that would reduce taxes for lower-income Mainers.
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January 28He remains the only announced candidate, and early polling shows he's a favorite to win his party's nomination.
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Ronna McDaniel's reelection to an unprecedented fourth term as RNC chair is expected to do little to heal the splintered GOP.
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They now have a platform to cast further doubt on the integrity of votes in two major battleground states.
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January 29Maine's 2nd District lawmaker sees hope for compromise and progress in a narrowly divided, Republican-controlled U.S. House
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January 27The former vice president said national security depends on the proper handling of classified documents but hopes people realize he acted swiftly to correct the error.
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January 27It’s the first time in history that the four leaders of the two congressional spending committees are women.
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January 27Jeff Zients is a former business executive who has held a series of posts under President Biden and former President Barack Obama.
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January 27The payments raise new questions for Santos, the 34-year-old freshman Republican from New York who has faced calls to resign after he lied to voters about key details of his biography.
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January 27Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said backers of No Blank Checks collected more than enough signatures to be approved for the state ballot in November.
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January 26Handling of classified documents has been a problem off and on for decades, from presidents to Cabinet members and staff across multiple administrations stretching as far back as Jimmy Carter.
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January 25There are similarities – but also major differences – among the classified-records situations of President Biden, former President Donald Trump and Trump's vice president, Mike Pence.
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January 25The mishandling of classified documents has been a problem off and on for decades, from presidents to Cabinet members and staff across multiple administrations.
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January 24A judge says he will consider arguments and would reach out to both parties with any questions before making a final decision on whether to release the findings of a special grand jury investigating possible interference in the 2020 election.
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January 24The U.S. announcement is expected to come on Wednesday in coordination with an announcement by Germany that it will approve Poland’s request to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
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January 24Documents with classified markings discovered in Pence's Indiana home are the latest in a string of discoveries of confidential information in private residences.
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Prosecutors said the Arkansas man had a stun gun tucked into his pants when he stormed the Capitol and invaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
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January 23The Republican National Committee filed lawsuits asking judges to declare noncitizen voting unconstitutional.
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January 23It’s another major victory for the Justice Department, which is also trying to secure sedition convictions against the former leader of the Proud Boys and 4 associates.
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January 23The attacks have been led by Ronna McDaniel's chief rival, a Trump attorney who has accused McDaniel of religious bigotry, chronic misspending and privately claiming she can control the former president.
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January 23With control of both the House and Senate, Democrats will set the agenda, but Republicans still hope to leave their mark.
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January 22Despite their criticism, Biden's fellow Democrats defended what they said was his cooperation with the Justice Department as the search for additional classified material unfolds.
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January 22Since serving as COVID-19 response coordinator, Zients has returned to the White House in a low-profile position to work on staffing matters for the remainder of Biden's first term.
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'Here we are!' Gov. Janet Mills declared Jan. 4 in her second inaugural address.
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January 19Ninety-seven employees of the court were formally interviewed; all denied disclosing the opinion but some later admitted they told their spouses.
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January 19The Treasury Department says it has started taking 'extraordinary measures' as the government has run up against its legal borrowing capacity of $31.381 trillion.
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January 19A Meta spokesman said the company will announce its decision about reinstating Donald Trump's access this month.
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January 18Solomon Peña, who is charged with directing shootings at the homes of Democratic elected officials, should be held without bond, prosecutors say.
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January 20While the leader of Maine's Catholics is vocal in his opposition to Gov. Mills' bill, other religious leaders are divided.
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January 18The discovery complicates a federal probe into former President Donald Trump and is a political headache for President Biden.
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January 18One of four bills to be introduced would allow abortion at any point in a pregnancy with the approval of a qualified medical professional.
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January 15Ohio's tightened window for receiving mailed ballots is likely to affect just several hundred of the thousands of military and overseas ballots received in any election. Critics say any number is too great.
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January 15While the U.S. Secret Service provides security at the president's private residence, it does not maintain visitor logs, an agency spokesman says.
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January 15Republicans renewed demands for cuts, and Democrats insisted the government be allowed to honor commitments made by previous Congresses.
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January 13The Government Oversight Committee voted to appeal a court ruling that lawmakers are prohibited from viewing confidential child protection records.
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January 13The $400 million allocated for transportation projects would help unlock an estimated $1 billion in federal infrastructure spending, state officials say.
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January 13It was early last November when President Biden's personal attorneys first came across Obama-Biden administration documents, including classified material, in an office that Biden had used in Washington after his time as vice president.
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January 12Robert Hur's appointment comes as the political ramifications surrounding the investigation intensify.
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January 12The NSA and other spy agencies use authorities under FISA's Section 702 to collect huge swaths of foreign communications, which also results in the incidental collection of emails and calls from Americans.
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January 12Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree opposed a number of measures pushed by the new congressional majority.
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January 12For years, problems with classified materials have been a shortcut to controversy in Washington.
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January 12The announcement followed Biden's acknowledgement Thursday morning that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his personal library, along with other documents found in his garage.
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January 12Past forecasts suggest a default could instantly bury the country in a deep recession, right at a moment of slowing global growth.
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January 12The 651-page budget proposal aims to address some of Maine’s biggest challenges.
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January 11In the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Americans elected Senate Democrats 'to be a firewall' against what he said are Republicans’ extreme views.
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January 12The spending proposal does not call for raising taxes and would use projected revenue surpluses to expand programs such as free community college tuition and public school investments.
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January 11The new congressman from Long Island, who lied about his resume and family heritage, flatly rejected the call to resign, saying, 'I will not.'
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January 11While Republicans accused Biden of staging a shallow photo-op, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez countered that that’s exactly what Cruz and other Republicans have done for years.
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January 10There are significant differences between the Trump and Biden situations, including the gravity of an ongoing grand jury investigation into the Mar-a-Lago seizure.
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January 10While unlikely to affect the Justice Department’s decision-making with regard to charging Trump in his own case, President Biden's document disclosure could intensify skepticism among Republicans and others.
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January 10The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol is no more, and Republicans have no plans to revive it, vowing instead to take a closer look at the actions of law enforcement.
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January 10Mills said in a radio interview that she's looking to continue investments in public education, housing and child care, though she offered few details ahead of the official unveiling planned for Wednesday.
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January 10The complaint questioned where Santos got $705,000 he loaned his campaign last year, noting that when he ran for Congress in 2020, he reported only $55,000 in assets.
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January 11As a senior advisor, Fecteau will help develop policy solutions for housing development and land use.
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January 10To win the votes he needed to secure the gavel, McCarthy had to agree to a series of House rule changes that weakened the power of his post.
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January 10Republicans have shown interest in proving their opposition to Democrats’ efforts to boost tax code enforcement and crack down on tax avoidance.
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January 10All 3 world leaders were to discuss migration, trade and climate change as they look to mend tensions that have divided the continent.
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January 10With sky-high ambitions for a hard-right conservative agenda but only a narrow hold on the majority, Republicans are rushing headlong into an uncertain, volatile start of the new session.
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January 10Attorneys for Biden notified the White House, which alerted the National Archives, when a small number of papers with classified markings were found locked at the president's former institute.
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January 9Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was to join President Biden in Mexico, and the countries' three leaders will spend the next days discussing migration and the other major issues.
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January 9King, who traveled to Ukraine over the weekend and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, says the Russian invasion is faltering and Vladimir Putin's only hope is to divide the American public and Ukraine's allies.
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January 9By increasing the difficulty of a bipartisan agreement on spending, it could raise the risk of a market-rattling battle over the debt limit and a partial government shutdown later this year.
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January 9The special grand jury has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
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January 8The trend reflects how conservative scrutiny of instruction related to race, gender, and sexuality has extended from schools to higher education.
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Police say three homes and two offices in Albuquerque were hit by gunfire in the past month.
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More than two dozen such measures are introduced across 11 states.
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January 7After four days of grueling ballots, McCarthy flipped more than a dozen conservative holdouts to become supporters.
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January 6Friday’s moment of silence at the Capitol to contemplate the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on it was expected to draw mostly Democrats.
