Independent Tiffany Bond has spent $1,100 so far while the major party candidates each have $2.3 million in their coffers
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Maine man who allegedly breached U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleads not guilty
Joshua Colgan, 35, of Jefferson, pleads not guilty via videoconference on Tuesday.
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Jan. 6 takeaways: Extremists and ‘screaming’ in Trump meeting
House investigators lay out how the former president turned to the widest possible audience on Twitter, calling his supporters, some of them violent, to Washington to ‘be wild’ as Congress certified President Biden’s victory.
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Trump attempted to contact Jan. 6 witness, House panel says
The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Trump’s multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden’s victory.
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U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree tests positive for COVID-19
In a written statement Monday, Pingree said she is fully vaccinated and boosted and was experiencing mild symptoms.
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Amid growing national tensions, U.S. governors meet in Portland this week
The National Governors Association is hosting its semiannual meeting in Maine for the first time in nearly 40 years.
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Trump ally Steve Bannon now willing to testify before Jan. 6 committee
Bannon had been one of the highest-profile Trump-allied holdouts in refusing to testify before the committee, leading to two criminal counts of contempt of Congress last year for resisting the committee’s subpoena.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court disallows absentee ballot drop boxes
The ruling has critical implications in the 2024 presidential race, in which Wisconsin will again be among a handful of battleground states.
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Giuliani, Graham subpoenaed by Georgia grand jury investigating Trump election interference
The special grand jury has been investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia as he desperately tried to cling to power after Joe Biden’s victory.
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From one July Fourth to the next, a steep slide for Biden
His approval rating remains at 39 percent, the lowest since taking office, down from 59 percent one year ago.