Maine has fallen headlong into the debate of transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ and women’s sports. Governor Janet ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had plenty to say since launching his podcast earlier this month with a splash, breaking ...

In 2025, Republicans control the Senate 53-47, including two independent senators who caucus with the Democrats. Republican Sens. Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy ...

Amid rising tensions with Washington, D.C., state lawmakers advanced a bill Friday that would grant Gov. Bob Ferguson ...

When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of the tussle between secular and Islamist values in the new Syria.

A man arrested on suspicion of having murdered a Vermont man turned out to be innocent. He wasn’t the Lewiston man sought. But John Lombard, 25, of Biddeford didn’t get off the hook entirely. It ...

Jon Ossoff is doubling down on attacks against President Trump ahead of the 2026 midterm election, which could see Gov. Brian Kemp or Rep. Buddy Carter enter the race.

As President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon dismantle the Department of Education on the federal level, a bill in Maine would strip school superintendents of some of their legal ...

Maine’s secretary of state is speaking out against a proposal to change how people vote in the U.S. This comes after an ...

By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine Democrats have put forward a proposal to no longer award the state’s Electoral ...