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19 hours ago in National, Trending One officer was killed and another injured when a driver slammed into them at a barricade Friday afternoon. The attack comes after officers were overrun and injured when a violent mob of Trump supporters overran the Capitol on Jan. 6, breaking through insufficient barriers and pushing their way to within steps of lawmakers. 2 days ago in National, Religion

The justices are meeting in private Friday to discuss adding new cases to their docket for the fall. Among the prospects is an appeal from gun rights advocates that asks the court to declare a constitutional right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-protection. 14 hours ago in National, Trending

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The Maine Idea: Democracy starts with primary elections By Douglas RooksThe Maine Idea Share The results of the Nov. 3 election, for many, still seem contradictory: Donald Trump was soundly defeated by Joe Biden, but of 23 U.S. Senate seats held by Republicans, just two were won by Democrats. Pending runoff elections in Georgia, the GOP could still control the Senate. Yet such analyses don’t even scrape the surface, let alone explain what happened. Rather than voting for “divided governmen...

Douglas Rooks The results of the Nov. 3 election, for many, still seem contradictory: Donald Trump was soundly defeated by Joe Biden, but of 23 U.S. Senate seats held by Republicans, just two were won by Democrats. Pending runoff elections in Georgia, the GOP could still control the Senate. Yet such analyses don’t even scrape the surface, let alone explain what happened. Rather than voting for “divided government,” as said a thousand times, voters chose between two candidates in each race...

A group of congressional Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to add four seats to the Supreme Court, a long-shot bid designed to counter the courts rightward tilt during the Trump administration and criticized by Republicans as a potential power grab that would reduce the publics trust in the judiciary. 7 hours ago in National, Trending Former Officer Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday, passing up the chance to exp...

One by one, the Republican leaders of Congress have made the trip to Mar-a-Lago to see Donald Trump. But missing from the appearances has been perhaps the most powerful Republican elected official in the country, Mitch McConnell, a onetime ally who ushered the former presidents legislative and judicial agenda to fruition, but now claims to want nothing to do with Trump. 18 hours ago in National, Trending The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Clevel...

everybody on the committee has one way or the other. tell us what happens if we bend to the easy decision and not do brac, what do we give up in that tradeoff? >> look, you all know this, the defense only has so many parts. ive identified the areas that involve savings that we can focus on. we put everything on the table. those parts are efficiencies whatever we can do to eliminate waste and cut down on bureaucratic overhead. theres a lot of that. weve added about $60 billion in saving...

fired, a paper buried because a doner was upset. >>i would say we have a policy -- clear policy that no individuaoll support will support individual research. it becomes a challenge, you do not make that kind of commitment. we are very clear that no particular paper is written because of a contribution. our foundation is different, but the fund issues are brought in fund research. >> two quick points. i agree on the donor. . in the article, i mentioned the david frum incident i the dow...

could disrupt these gains and incur extra costs. how did the department come to this decision and how does the department propose to mitigate the military risks, the monetary costs and the work force challenges generated by the shift? obviously the virginia class submarine is a program that has come in on time and under budget because of the efficiencies that we gain from block buys and stability to the supply chain. im concerned this delay is going to cost us in these areas. ive been ...