The legislation would direct the Food and Drug Administration to issue a rule banning the intentional use of PFAS in cosmetics such as makeup, moisturizer and perfume.

The Republican's comments were a rare expression of regret by the conservative agitator, who has embraced violent and offensive conspiracy theories.

The bill would change laws governing how political action committees make payments to legislators who are connected to the PAC in a leadership role or as a primary fundraiser.

The proposal by Democratic Senate President Troy Jackson would stop the spraying of glyphosate and other synthetic herbicides as a forest management strategy.

Maine joins a growing list of states to make June 19 an official holiday, although the closure of Maine state offices won't start until next year.

The former Californian, who's been called 'Putin's favorite congressman,' confirmed he was at the march to protest the 'stolen election' but said he urged fellow protesters not to storm the Capitol.

The House had passed the measure to end funding for the Maine Information and Analysis Center, which was created in the wake of 9/11, but the 29-6 vote in the Senate effectively kills the legislation.

The measure to close the South Portland youth prison passed the House last week but it faces a possible veto by Gov. Janet Mills.

John Demers was sworn in a few weeks after the subpoena for the Democrats’ records and is one of the few Trump appointees who has remained in the Biden administration.

President Biden has stepped up his effort to rally allies to speak in a more unified voice about China’s human rights record, its trade practices and its military’s increasingly assertive behavior that has unnerved U.S. allies in the Pacific.

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Julien Xavier Neals to serve as a U.S. district court judge for the New Jersey district.

Maine could become the first state where lawmakers order 'divestment' from fossil fuels, although changes to the bill could slow the process.

The unanimous vote against vacating a subpoena for information from an unidentified Virginia-based political consulting firm came after a lengthy closed-door meeting.

Along with reviewing new state laws, Attorney General Merrick Garland says the department will examine existing ones for their potential to discriminate against minority voters.

With 3.7 million people lost in the pandemic, the world’s richest democracies are eager to show themselves the champions of the afflicted.

Phone information from two members of the House Intelligence Committee and others was obtained by the former administration as it aggressively investigated leaks, sources say.

After a closed-door session Friday, the Maine Ethics Commission voted 5-0 not to pursue an investigation into a complaint against a state lawmaker.

The broadcaster cites broad First Amendment protections, but the company says Fox relied on and amplified irresponsible sources intent on spreading lies about the election.

A senior IRS official said Thursday that a federal criminal investigation into the leak has been requested.

The Maine Department of Corrections would have to develop a plan to close Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland by June 30, 2023.

Such a package would be more than the previous Republican-only effort, but still short of the $1.7 trillion over 8 years President Biden is seeking.

The Senate supported the measure on a 22-12 party-line vote, with Republicans in opposition, a day after it won preliminary approval in the House.

The Pew Research Center surveys show majorities of the citizens across the countries — more than 6 in 10 in each — express confidence in Biden to “do the right thing” in world affairs.

The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Campaign Finances will meet in an executive session Friday to consider a conflict of interest complaint against a member of the Legislature.

The Texas bar association is looking into whether Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

The proposal by the Problem Solvers Caucus comes a day after talks between President Biden and Senate Republicans collapsed.

Unofficial results reported by municipal clerks from Tuesday's voting.

Unofficial results reported by municipal clerks from Tuesday's poll votes.

The president has started new talks with a bipartisan group of 10 senators working on a deal and welcomed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan effort from a group in the House.

The House voted 92-52 to support allowing unenrolled voters to vote in a party's primary without having to register in that party.

Bills to fund studies of service to Lewiston, Bangor and more are moving toward approval and could lay groundwork for federal aid down the tracks.

The 68-32 vote for the bill demonstrates how confronting China economically is an issue that unites both parties in Congress.

The breakdown comes as the 2 sides fail to broker the divide over the scope of the president's sweeping infrastructure investment and how to pay for it.

The durable clout of the National Rifle Association shows how difficult it is to claw back control from a lobbying powerhouse that has deep roots in the American political system.

Patrick Scully, an attorney who specialized in energy and utility issues, will join the 3-member Maine Public Utilities Commission.

Voters will cast ballots Tuesday on school budgets, and some communities are choosing candidates and deciding whether to pass new ordinances.

Fed up by the delays, some senators are ready to change the rules to eliminate the filibuster, which they blame for the inaction.

The legislation, which carries a price of $34 million, won unanimous support from lawmakers, who said it would help students avoid stigma and improve learning.

The American vice president emphasizes the need for action to improve the situation on the ground for Guatemalans, who she said don’t want to leave their homeland but are forced to by poor living conditions.

Rep. Christopher Caiazzo, D-Scarborough, filed the lawsuit last week in Cumberland County Superior Court.

The West Virginia senator says the bill is too broad and would lead to more division.

The White House is clearly standing with the doctor, despite the onslaught of criticism.

Lawmakers are under the gun to review the Mills administration's plan for spending $997.5 million from the American Rescue Plan, with less than two weeks left in the session.

Incumbents Dawn Kliphan and Doug Ide and newcomer Charlie Hippler IV are on Tuesday's ballot.

On a 10-2 vote, the Legislature's Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill that would prohibit jailing suspects who can't pay bail on most misdemeanor charges.

Patrick Scully represented a range of companies and industries before the Maine Public Utilities Commission, a record of experience that was problematic for Republicans.

After the release of a modest May jobs report, the president made the case for his robust investment package to push the economy past the COVID-19 crisis and downturn, and into a new era.

The House Judiciary Committee will question former White House counsel Don McGahn behind closed doors on Friday.

The former vice president says he's not sure he and former President Trump will 'ever see eye to eye on that day.'

Many Republicans, led by Donald Trump, are continuing to question the validity of the 2020 election, and critics say that denial shows how the party is increasingly open to bucking democratic norms.

The proposal, which faces further votes in the Legislature, is a response to concerns that reforms are not happening quickly enough after several high-profile child-abuse deaths.

Justice Stanfill will succeed former Chief Justice Leigh Saufley, who stepped down last year to become dean of the University of Maine School of Law.

Maine is one of only 10 states that do not cover preventive and restorative dental care under their Medicaid programs.

Michael Perkins hopes to unseat two-term U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Lewiston Democrat, in the 2022 political contest.

The votes came after Rep. John Andrews, a Libertarian from Paris, refused to comply with masking requirements in the State House, delaying a House floor session by more than an hour.

Melanie Stansbury will replace Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, preserving an all-female House delegation for the state.

The lawmakers were removed from committee assignments last week after they flouted rules enacted by legislative leaders by entering the State House without masks.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers and former lawmakers seeking to open Maine's party primaries to unenrolled voters.

If confirmed, Justice Valerie Stanfill, of Wayne, will sit on the state’s top appellate court and oversee the complex operation of the Judicial Branch.

Republicans are forced to abandon for now an elections overhaul crammed with previously unseen restrictions.

After being away since March 2020, lawmakers will be back in the Capitol to finish their work on dozens of bills, including a supplemental state budget package that adds $187 million to public school funding.

Republican senators last week outlined a $928 billion proposal as a counteroffer to President Biden’s $1.7 trillion plan.

Among other legislation, the Senate passed the COVID-19 Origin Act, to require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID-19.

A bill finalized Saturday would eliminate drive-thru voting, reduce polling hours and scale back Sunday voting.

The For God & Country Patriot Roundup conference is being held for three days at the Omni Dallas Hotel.

While President Biden pitches his infrastructure plan to the American public, the real work of delivering his agenda takes place behind the scenes.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked passage of a bill that would have set up a nonpartisan commission to investigate the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol spurred on by former President Donald Trump.

Opponents of the high-voltage transmission line through western Maine have alleged that contractors cut a wider swath through the forest than its environmental permit allows.

The vote comes a day after emotional appeals from police who fought with Trump supporters who smashed their way in, and from fellow lawmakers who fled Capitol chambers that day.

The Legislature's Judiciary Committee discusses two bills on the doctrine that shields police and other public employees from frivolous lawsuits but has come under new scrutiny since the murder of George Floyd.

A policy requiring that people entering the State House wear face coverings remains, even with mask mandates lifted in other places.

The pharmaceutical industry has made it clear that it will sue Maine if the state approves the ‘excessive pricing’ bill, which now goes to the full Legislature.

The Capitol Police are caught in the middle of a political firestorm involving the lawmakers they are sworn to protect.

Ahead of Thursday's vote, the mother of the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was meeting with at least 6 Republican senators to try to persuade them to act.

Republicans have rejected President Biden’s proposed corporate tax increase to pay for new investments, and instead want to shift unspent COVID-19 relief dollars to help cover the costs.