Maine begins accepting absentee ballot requests for November election

Politics

Published
August 8, 2022

Maine begins accepting absentee ballot requests for November election

Requests can be submitted now but actual ballots won't be mailed back until October.
Published
August 7, 2022

Senate Democrats pass budget package, a victory for Biden

The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden's priorities.
Published
August 5, 2022

Democrats could strip Iowa caucus of opening spot in 2024 campaign

Some Democratic rules committee members privately said that the party is leaning toward either New Hampshire or Nevada going first.
Published
August 4, 2022

Senate appropriators want $4 billion for ships the Navy didn’t seek

The fiscal 2023 bill requires the Navy to spend that $4 billion to build all or part of a destroyer, 2 amphibious ships, a cargo vessel and several troop-ferrying hovercrafts.
Published
August 4, 2022

Trump White House lawyers subpoenaed by Jan. 6 probe grand jury

The subpoenas to Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin suggest an intensifying Justice Department investigation into the events surrounding the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Published
August 4, 2022

Green Party co-founder John Rensenbrink dies

An environmental advocate for more than 70 years, Rensenbrink dedicated his life to changing politics to benefit the natural world.
Published
August 3, 2022

Collins-Manchin bill to protect electoral count endorsed at key hearing

The bill would reform the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which former President Donald Trump attempted to exploit in trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
Published
August 2, 2022

Primary takeaways: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens’ collapse

Voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas and repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.
Published
August 2, 2022

Kansas voters protect abortion rights, block path to ban

Voters rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have added language stating that it does not grant the right to abortion.
Published
August 1, 2022

Texas man who stormed Capitol with gun gets more than 7 years in prison

Prosecutors said Guy Reffitt told fellow members of the Texas Three Percenters militia group that he planned to drag House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles.