The Democrat graduated recently from the University of Maine School of Law, and said post-law school work that begins next week requires him to leave the Legislature.

In a federal lawsuit against Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, 4 voters contend they were either disenfranchised by the system or forced to cast ballots for candidates they did not support.

Collins said she disagrees with President Trump's effort to prevent emergency funding for the nation's mail service.

The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and other GOP groups filed the lawsuits Tuesday against elections officials in Linn and Johnson counties.

Speaking to investors last week, the founder of the private prison company GEO Group predicted his company would rebound after the November election.

Republicans had attempted to roll back the suspension of a law that requires two witnesses or a notary to vote by mail.

Matt Dunlap, for the second time, has determined that the Maine Republican Party failed to collect enough valid voter signatures to put a citizen's veto question on the November ballot.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee ad levels a charge of hypocrisy that supporters of Republican Sen. Susan Collins have returned to repeatedly.

She embraces a far-right conspiracy theory that President Trump is waging a secret campaign against the 'deep state' and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.

She says her campaign will now focus on mobilizing voters to block President Trump from carrying Minnesota.

Democrats have blasted the plan as an attempt to undermine Social Security's finances.

All indications are talks will not resume in full until Congress resumes in September.

The new hires include the former chief of staff to Senate President Troy Jackson.

The former vice president and California Sen. Kamala Harris appeared for the first time together as the Democratic presidential ticket.

She defeats Antone Melton-Meaux, an attorney and mediator who raised millions in anti-Omar money.

She has gone from being California's 'top cop' to leading congressional efforts to revamp the criminal justice system, and has been especially outspoken since George Floyd died in May while in police custody.

The Democratic presidential candidate embraces a former primary rival and makes history by selecting the first Black woman to run on a major party’s presidential ticket.

No one is giving up on an accord, though near-term prospects aren’t promising.

The Democratic challenger has a 5-point lead over the longtime Republican incumbent in a poll of 500 likely Maine voters released Tuesday by the Bangor Daily News.

The panel is considering whether Flynn's attorney is entitled to leapfrog a lower court judge and get an order from the appeals court forcing the judge to dismiss the prosecution before he himself has had the chance to rule.

McConnell and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday exchanged blame but no new ideas on breaking the deadlock.

The nominating convention will encompass the left flank of New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the Republican old guard of former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Joe Biden has an unusual opportunity to unify a party still reeling from Donald Trump's 2016 win.

Negotiations over the latest coronavirus bill shifted with the arrival of Mark Meadows, the president's new chief of staff, a conservative former head of the House Freedom Caucus.

The action would make states pay for one-quarter of the $400-per-week enhanced jobless benefit, but it is unclear how the program would be implemented.

Both major parties have their highest enrollments in at least 30 years, but Democrats are gaining members at a faster clip, driven in part by recent presidential and U.S. Senate primary elections.

The House passed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act to fund Defense Department programs for fiscal 2021.

Success in a mass-inoculation effort to achieve herd immunity depends on communicating its efficacy and overcoming 'vaccine hesitancy.'

President Trump’s re-election campaign denies involvement.

Chaotic events during this year’s primaries did not instill confidence.

Part of the challenge is the perception that he’s too moderate to deliver on issues that are important to them.

He falsely claims the pandemic ravaging the nation and endangering his re-election campaign was 'disappearing.'

Mainers broke records in the July primary when they cast more than 200,000 votes by absentee ballot, and Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap thinks that number will triple for November.

The debate, which will feature Susan Collins, Sara Gideon, Lisa Savage and Max Linn, will be held at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11.

The Democrat's climate agenda includes supporting the U.S. rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and requiring electric utilities to obtain some energy from renewable sources.

The statement from the nation's counterintelligence chief is believed to be the most pointed declaration by the U.S. intelligence community linking the Kremlin to efforts to get Trump reelected.

The lobbyist who pushed for the change is a former longtime aide to the Maine senator.

President Trump is engaging in a deeply personal attack on his presidential opponent, even questioning without foundation the former vice president's faith in God.

King, a longtime advocate for the agency, warns a key Senate leader that post offices will struggle to keep up with mail-in ballots unless policies are changed.

The book includes 43 portraits of immigrants painted by the 43rd president, along with biographical essays he wrote about each.

Quinnipiac University's survey of 807 registered Maine voters finds Republican Sen. Susan Collins trailing the Democratic House speaker by 4 points.

Voting rights groups have expressed concern that delays in service amid a surge in voting by mail could lead to ballots being thrown out.

State Finance Commissioner Kirsten Figueroa directed department leaders to find ways to reduce costs as the state grapples with COVID-19-related revenue losses.

The president is considering giving his acceptance speech on the grounds of the White House, while the former vice president has scrapped plans to accept the Democratic nomination in Milwaukee.

Top Democrats want the Legislature to take up hundreds of unfinished bills, but Republican leaders say they first want an agreement on the scope and length of a session.

The former vice president will go up in 15 battleground states, expanding the playing field.

The president tweets that the system is safe despite having earlier said the election should be delayed because mail voting may encourage fraud.

At the Waterville Republican Committee caucus Monday, no one was chosen to run for mayor against Democratic nominee Jay Coelho, a former city councilor.

Those appointed for their political connections to the president, rather than any qualifications, have raised eyebrows and, in at least 1 case, ethics concerns.

Multiple obstacles remain in crafting a bill, including an impasse on extending a $600-per-week pandemic jobless benefit, funding for the U.S. Postal Service and aid to renters facing eviction.

Four primary races decided by ranked-choice voting, including the 2nd District Republican contest, were not affected after the Secretary of State's Office discovered the errors.

The summer meeting of the National Governors Association had been scheduled to convene Wednesday in Portland.

Areas of agreement include a $1,200 direct payment and changes to the Paycheck Protection Program to let especially hard-hit businesses obtain more loans under generous forgiveness terms.

The Supreme Court last month rejected claims by the president’s lawyers that he cannot be criminally investigated while in office.

The former president, still popular, especially among Democrats, endorsed 57 candidates for the U.S. House and Senate on Monday.

Nevada joins seven states that plan on automatically sending voters mail ballots.

Bre Kidman, who finished third in the Democratic Senate primary, bucks tradition to endorse Savage instead of the primary's winner, Sara Gideon.

A roundup of measures approved in each chamber.

The veteran lawmaker from Lisbon won a three-way primary last month and is challenging first-term incumbent Democrat Jared Golden.

The Trump administration is willing to extend the $600 jobless benefit but is balking at other Democratic demands.

The leading contenders include California Sen. Kamala Harris, California Rep. Karen Bass and Obama national security adviser Susan Rice.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his advisers vow to unleash a tsunami of change.

The White House chief of staff says Democrats rejected reasonable offers, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi derides Republicans for trying to advance a short-term fix.

The two-term Republican incumbent fended off primary challenger Larry Lockman by 52 votes in a closely watched primary. Rosen will now face Democratic challenger Beverly Ulenhake in the Nov. 3 election.

A government oversight group says President Donald Trump’s reelection effort is hiding the funds by routing payments through companies tied to his former campaign manager.

Linn accused former state GOP leader Charlie Webster of threatening him to try to help Susan Collins' reelection bid.

Along with Coelho, 11 other Democrats were nominated as the party's candidates in the November election.

While it’s not clear when or where he was infected, but he was hospitalized less than 2 weeks after attending a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June.

The date of the presidential election – the Tuesday after the first Monday in November – is enshrined in federal law and would require an act of Congress to change.

The Lincoln Project, a national super PAC, was established by a group of Republicans who oppose President Trump and are working to unseat Republican senators they view as his supporters.

Part of his plan is to build 1.5 million new homes and public housing units in hopes of addressing the nation's affordable housing crisis.

Key to the debate is the $600 weekly unemployment benefit bump that is expiring for millions of jobless Americans.

The survey of nearly 900 likely Maine voters, conducted between July 18-24, also shows high favorability ratings for Gov. Janet Mills and low favorability for President Trump.

The former Auburn state senator, who lost a congressional primary this month, is moving to Austin to raise money for a libertarian group.

The hearing marks the attorney general's first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, bringing him face-to-face with a panel that is holding hearings on what Democrats say is politicization of the Justice Department under his watch.