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House Republicans on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to increase congressional authority over the federal rulemaking process, a move that would usurp power from government agencies in favor of elevating elected lawmakers. The legislation — titled the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS) Act — cleared the chamber in a largely…

Maine Voices: Wounds of Trump years run deeper than politics. Are we ready to heal? The United States of America still has to reckon with the darkest eras of its past and to inclusively and equitably reconstruct what America can and ought to be. By Marpheen ChannSpecial to the Telegram Share As an openly gay Cambodian American living in a rural, predominantly white state, I have watched in dismay as the country that my parents and grandparents saw as the land of opportunity, justice and liber...