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Schools in Maine are in the middle of a political and legal battle between the Trump administration and Gov. Janet Mills. Key programs for the most vulnerable students are at stake.
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Jackson, a Democrat, said in March he was exploring a bid for governor. He's now joining a growing primary field angling to replace Gov. Janet Mills next year. -
NHPR obtained psychiatric evaluations for John Madore that were ordered to be done following a 2016 standoff with law enforcement in Strafford, seven years before he killed a security guard inside a Concord psychiatric hospital. -
Maine regulators found the sawmill was polluting a nearby stream and groundwater.
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Congress has set aside $23 million to build a jetty near the coastal neighborhood to lessen wave damage and sand loss. -
Democratic state lawmakers are sounding alarms about proposed federal cuts and work requirements for Medicaid- known in the state as MaineCare- which they say would be extremely detrimental to Mainers who rely on the program.
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For a show that's never been shy about celebrating itself, Saturday Night Live was bound to lean hard into its 50th season. But the results were as mixed as ever. -
Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola says. -
A new book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson paints the story of how President Biden believed he was capable of serving a second term even though his inner circle hid that he wasn't. -
Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia. -
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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