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Paul Ryan, Other Republican Leaders Take a Dramatic Stand on Trump Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Thursday that “Im just not ready at this point” to back Donald Trump, after the question was asked by Jake Tapper on The Lead. The Speaker said, “I’m just not there right now.” He is the highest level GOP official to reject Trump – for now. The established Republicans to the left and right never did understand how Donald Trump was able to tap into the pulse of many in the party. As a result, they didn’t respond in time to challenge Trump. Now what do they do? Try to bring him ...

Giving supports student leaders in Cohen Institute The William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service at the University of Maine has received over $110,000 in gifts since the start of the fiscal year from alumni, parents and friends of UMaine. “These investments in the Cohen Institute ensure that we will continue to be able to develop innovative opportunities for the next generation of leaders at UMaine,” said Rich Powell, professor and director of the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service, and UMaine’s 2020 Distinguished Maine Professor. “Whether dow...

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Quiet and low profile, Mike Donilon is Biden’s White House ‘wise man’ By Jess Bidgood and Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 5, 2021, 9:50 a.m. Email to a Friend Mike Donilon listened to Joe Biden speak in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 6.ERIN SCHAFF/NYT/file WASHINGTON — Last year, as the pandemic hemmed Joe Biden’s campaign appearances inside the boundaries of his Delaware home base, anxiety-ridden Democrats groused he wasn’t doing enough to seize control of the presidential race. With adverse headlines piling up, the presidential candidate asked his friend and c...

For The Intelligencer In this 2014 photo, Mary Rhoads takes a break during a walk in her hometown of California, Pa., where she worked as a parking meter attendant before being deployed to the Persian Gulf War. Photo by Scott Beveridge As evening fell on Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 25, 1991, U.S. and British troops were inside a corrugated metal barracks eating dinner, working out or sleeping. They were deployed to the region as part of the effort by the United States and its allies to evict Iraqi forces from Kuwait. In the month since the war started, Iraq had lobbed Soviet-made Scud...