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Around 250 asylum seekers, mostly from Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Haiti, have arrived in the city over the last year.
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Currently, veterans who need residential care for substance use disorder must go out of state to get it.
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Residents will vote Saturday on an ordinance drafted by high school students, local restaurants and environmental advocates.
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Bookings are already up 15% as the international CAT ferry service between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Novia Scotia begins another season.
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State lawmakers had attempted to push back the referendum until 2026 to allow a special commission to come up with an alternative design. But the bill to delay the vote fell victim to late-session tensions with Gov. Janet Mills.
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If approved, the federal grant would cover about two-thirds of the nearly $760 million that the state of Maine estimates it will need to build the port and a heavy-lift semi-submersible barge that's needed to launch the floating wind turbine foundations.
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Iran's ultraconservative president, killed in a helicopter crash, oversaw a crackdown on women's protests and was linked to extrajudicial killings in the 1980s.
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Without addressing his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who is seen in the video being kicked and dragged in 2016, the hip-hop mogul says, "I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now."
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Ed Dwight, a former Air Force test pilot who was passed over to become an astronaut in the 1960s, described his flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard as "life changing."
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Facing potential headwinds with both young voters and Black voters, President Biden's Morehouse College commencement address focused on his view of the importance — and future of — democracy.
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Stefanik spoke before a caucus of Israel's parliament focused on antisemitism on college campuses around the world. She called for Hamas to be wiped "off the face of the earth."
Tuesday—Columnist and author David Ignatius discusses his new novel and comments on current events
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