Adrienne Bennett and Dale Crafts, challenging Brakey in Maine congressional primary, tie him to a Republican congressman Trump said should be thrown out of the GOP.

Eric Brakey is alone among the three Republicans in Maine's 2nd District congressional primary in rejecting the compromise bill that won unanimous backing in the U.S. Senate.

The Biddeford resident cites the coronavirus pandemic as a factor in preventing him from running the type of campaign he had planned.

The chamber stayed in session late Wednesday night in anticipation of passing the bill after days of delays. The House is expected to pass it on Friday.

Sticking points remained as negotiations went late into the night.

The party says it will conduct drive-thru events with single-use pens and hand sanitizer as it tries to prevent the method from being used in the November presidential election.

Among other legislation, the Senate passed a bill to provide a 77-day extension of certain authorities for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations.

Adrienne Bennett accused Eric Brakey of putting elderly and sick at risk from COVID-19 by knocking on doors in a bid to gain more 2nd District votes.

The president spent much of Friday's news briefing in a fury, sparring with reporters he deemed overly critical of the response.

Despite holding a near-insurmountable delegate lead, the presumptive Democratic nominee is confined to his home like all the rest of us.

Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an American Samoan and practicing Hindu, was part of what once was a historically diverse Democratic field.

The Vermont senator confronts the grim calculation that he has virtually no chance of leading the Democratic Party's ticket.

The measure includes $38 million more for Maine's public schools, funding for coronavirus response and dozens of other new initiatives.

The former vice president swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, while officials had to scrap voting altogether in Ohio.

A judge ruled that Hunter was not eligible for home confinement given the amount of money he misspent.

Joe Biden also won the Democratic presidential primaries in Missouri, Mississippi, Michigan and Idaho.

Senate Democrats plan to release a proposal that would provide at least $750 billion to assist businesses and individuals.

The new spending bill is $52 million less than the supplemental budget Gov. Janet Mills proposed last month, reflecting concern about potential impacts to the Maine economy.

The Democratic presidential candidates, in their first one-on-one debate of the 2020 campaign, are looking to cast themselves as best-positioned to lead the nation through a global pandemic.

On Friday, Louisiana became the first state to postpone its presidential primaries due to the virus.

Among other legislation, the House passed the Divided Families Reunification Act, requiring the State Department to work with South Korea on attempts to reunite Korean Americans with their relatives in North Korea, either in person or by video.

For the first time in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, only two candidates will face each other in a debate.

Two legislators introduced the measure after the Maine Sunday Telegram reported that state police are using a provision in Maine law to conceal whether they are using technologies capable of mass surveillance of citizens.

The president also announces a range of executive actions, including a new public-private partnership to expand coronavirus testing capabilities with drive-through locations, and he waives interest on federally held student loans.

Maine's senior senator said she has been dissatisfied with ‘inconsistent’ messaging on coronavirus from the federal government.

The bill would increase the threshold for salaried workers in the state to earn overtime pay, but lawmakers said it would burden businesses in an uncertain economy.

Washington is straining for a comprehensive response to the coronavirus outbreak that is testing the nation's political, financial and health care systems.

The proposal is in response to Hydro Quebec's spending to support a 145-mile transmission line planned by Central Maine Power Co.

The bill, which would also need voter approval, would funnel $90 million to the state's highway fund and $15 million towards the expansion of high-speed internet for parts of rural Maine.

The Vermont senator offers no details on what his campaign may look like before or after he and Joe Biden debate Sunday night in Arizona.

Allies of the one-time front-runner acknowledge that his campaign now faces an existential threat.

The Democratic candidates canceled their primary-night rallies in Cleveland as public health fears began transforming the race.

Former Vice President Joe Biden also took Missouri and Mississippi and Idaho on Tuesday.

The commission's decision follows a complaint from a political action committee backing Central Maine Power's proposed $1 billion transmission line through western Maine's mountains.

Senate Republicans are cool to additional spending, and Democrats prepare their own package of low-cost virus testing, unemployment insurance and sick pay for workers struggling to keep paychecks coming as the outbreak disrupts workplaces.

The practical implications of the ruling are unclear because the Senate impeachment trial over the president's interactions with Ukraine ended weeks ago in an acquittal.

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He must turn things around as the primary calendar quickly shifts to other states in the coming weeks that could favor Joe Biden.

The former vice president continues his strong run of turning competitors into endorsers.

In Maine, where Joe Biden narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders, over 200,000 registered Democrats voted Tuesday, or about 58 percent.

The president will instead celebrate with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.

They are his most enduring supporters as he tries to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Biden accepts the endorsement of Rep. Bennie Thompson, while Sanders accepts Jesse Jackson's endorsement.

The endorsements come before the next round of primaries, with six states voting Tuesday, including Michigan.

Among other bills, the House passed a resolution condemning all forms of violence against children globally.

Democrats and Republicans will gather Sunday to fill out local committees, pull in volunteers, hear from candidates and elect delegates to the state conventions.

Some say the photos were insensitive during the global coronavirus scare.

Many Democrats feel that his more moderate views means he has a greater chance of beating Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders does.

Some activists are disappointed that a once diverse field of women and minorities has dwindled to two white men in their late 70s.

An analysis of Tuesday's voting in the state's largest towns shows that 1 in 5 of the party's primary voters left the president's oval blank or wrote in another name.

The win of former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina Democratic primary set off a cascade of events that carried him to a consolidation of support for Super Tuesday.

Opponents of a proposed transmission line accuse a PAC funded by the utility of conducting an 'outrageous intimidation campaign,' but Clean Energy Matters contends that petition-drive workers violated state law.

The legislation would direct the DEP to find the best ways to measure and control odors and other air emissions from petroleum storage facilities.

The Senate is expected to take it up for final time next week.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he was referring to political consequences, not physical threats, when he said 2 Supreme Court justices would 'pay the price' for their decisions on an abortion case now before the court.

The survey by the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling also shows President Trump trailing both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders among likely Maine voters.

Disappointed in her Super Tuesday finish, the Massachusetts senator dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday.

Voting results defied conventional geographic and demographic divisions among the state's Democrats, who reacted to a winnowing of the field in recent days.

Lawmakers hear from proponents of reform and those who say the measure doesn't go far enough to close down the state's problematic detention center in South Portland.

The first major abortion case to come before the court since Brett Kavanaugh was seated has renewed criticism of Sen. Susan Collins' vote to confirm him.

Lisa Savage, who left the Maine Green Independent Party to make it easier for her to get on the November ballot, now has enough petition signatures, her campaigns says.

However, legal experts say the proposal is unprecedented and would challenge the independence of the Public Utilities Commission, probably prompting a legal battle.

Janet Preston received 415 votes to Christopher Hahn's 414 and Kevin Rhoades' 299 votes in Tuesday's election.

Maine's congressional delegation criticized the proposed diversion of $37.4 million in LIHEAP funding to pay for the federal coronavirus response.

Although Maine had not had a presidential primary in 20 years, the turnout of roughly 60% of Democratic voters was higher than anyone anticipated and slowed the vote counting.

Joe Biden swept to victory in Democratic primary contests across the country on Super Tuesday, from New England to the Atlantic seaboard swing states, from the Upper Midwest to the Deep South.

Turnout was heavy for Maine's first presidential primary in 20 years, and with 78% of polling places counted, Biden leads Sanders by about 1,350 votes.

The proposal to overturn Maine's new childhood vaccination requirement was losing badly as the tally mounted, with 74% of voters rejecting the 'people's veto' effort.

As lawmakers examine the supplemental budget offered by Gov. Janet Mills in February, Republicans on the Health and Human Service Committee are balking at some of the spending proposals.

Super Tuesday's 14 primaries leave the Democrats with what appears to be a two-man race, with the campaigns of Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren teetering.

City officials initially told the state Republican Party it couldn't collect signatures for a people's veto on the use of ranked-choice voting in presidential primaries.

Unofficial live election results collected by the Portland Press Herald and the Associated Press.

Real time town-by-town voting results in the vaccination repeal referendum.

Real time town-by-town voting results in the March 3 Democratic primary.