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Maine state Senate Democrats blocked a proposed amendment on Tuesday to a late-term abortion bill that would have placed a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of fetal remains left over from late-term abortions.

Maine State Rep. Suzanne Salisbury (D) voiced support for gun control measures moving through the state legislature, suggesting lawmakers have to look beyond the Second Amendment and act in light of “real world experience.”

Two people were shot while inside a vehicle on Interstate 295 South near Yarmouth, Maine, late Tuesday morning and police are looking for a suspect.

A train operated by Canadian Pacific Railways derailed in rural Maine on Saturday morning, and the Rockwood Fire Department warned residents to “stay clear” of the affected area. Three railroad employees were sent to the hospital to treat injuries that were reportedly not life-threatening.

An 11-year-old sixth grader in Windham, Maine, read aloud during a recent school board meeting from a book that shocked him and adults.

The Goldwater Institute is calling for an investigation into a school official who provided a breast binder to a 13-year-old girl without parental consent.

New York police officials said on Monday that 19-year-old Trevor Bickford, charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of attempted assault for allegedly attacking police with a machete on New Year’s Eve, kept a diary in which he expressed a desire to join the Taliban and die as a “martyr” in the cause of Islamic extremism.

A mother is calling for the resignation of school officials in Maine after finding out that a public school social worker began attempting to secretly transition her daughter without parental consent. 

A Maine middle school teacher who referred to heterosexual couples as “breeders” in his classroom discussed strategies for dodging public records requests.

Over 300 skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa hit the slopes Sunday in Maine to raise money for a local charity.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) criticized the Biden administration Wednesday for ordering 200 lobsters from Maine for the White House state dinner after the administration imposed burdensome regulations on the lobster industry.

National Republicans targeted more than half a dozen races in New England as pickup opportunities this year, but they picked up none.

Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the main super PAC aligned with the House Republicans released a campaign ad slamming Maine Democrat Rep. Jared Golden for failing Maine lobstermen.

Maine Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is scrambling five weeks before the election to stem political damage from revelations that her administration was teaching students in an online curriculum that “MAGA” is racist.

The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at the Maine Medical Center has a “Gender Clinic” that offers “Gender affirming hormone therapy” and other medical interventions to children to prevent natural biological development.

Democrat Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) came out strongly against voter ID during a debate with her opponents on Tuesday evening, saying Maine residents “don’t need” to show proof of identification and argued it would “inhibit” voting.

The Maine Department of Education promotes an organization that distributes breast binders to minors and hosts overnight camps for six year olds who identify as transgender in a “confidential location.” The state’s Department of Education also promotes a website that hosts an online chat for children as young 13 who identify as transgender. The site includes a button that quickly transports youth to a weather forecasting website in order to obscure the page.

The Maine Department of Education has doubled down on allowing one of its taxpayer-funded online learning programs to instruct high school students that the term “MAGA” is an example of covert racism and white supremacy.

Using the slogan “MAGA” is an example of covert racism and white supremacy, according to an instructional video available through Maine’s Department of Education.

Portland Public Schools in Maine is considering moving to a four-day school week for special education students as the school district is unable to fill teaching positions.

Portland, Maine, is facing an ongoing migrant crisis that threatens to overflow the city’s housing capacity and drain its funds. 

Republican candidates, bolstered by a bleak economy, have opportunities to flip seats in New England that could leave the region specked in a Rust Belt-looking red after the midterms.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) may defect from his party on certain votes, but he furthers the Democrat agenda simply by helping the party to maintain its slim majority, former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) said during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday.

LEWISTON, Maine — Former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) is campaigning across Maine’s vast rural Second Congressional District with an economy-focused agenda that he hopes will resonate with the district’s working-class and elderly populations.

A 12-year-old boy named Brayden Nadeau from Maine was born to farm, and started a produce stand two years ago.

LEWISTON, Maine — Former Gov. Paul LePage is back and looking to ignite hope among Maine’s working class amid a period of national economic decline.

The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) is hopeful of flipping four Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the upcoming midterm elections.

Republicans are emboldened by polling data pointing to a red wave across the country, even in traditionally blue states, Republican State Leadership Committee Communications Director Andrew Romeo explained to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle this past weekend.

A former Maine Department of Education (DOE) official sent an email to employees drawing parallels between the death of George Floyd and a video of a kindergarten teacher explaining transgenderism, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.

Former Gov. Paul LePage (R) lauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday that Maine’s tuition assistance program cannot exclude religious schools.

The Supreme Court sided 6-3 against Maine’s education program, which excludes tuition assistance for students attending religious schools.

Former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) won the Republican primary race in Maine’s Second District on Tuesday and now moves on to a rematch against Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) in the general election.

Former Gov. Paul LePage cruised through the Republican gubernatorial primary in Maine unopposed on Tuesday, officially setting up a face-off against incumbent Democrat Gov. Janet Mills for November.

Voters in several states nationwide head to the polls in primaries and in a special general congressional election in Texas on Tuesday, further testing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement strength and perhaps foreshadowing a looming red wave in November.

A Maine-based nonprofit that has greeted upwards of 1.5 million servicemembers at the Bangor International Airport in the last 30 years recently resumed welcoming operations after the Chinese coronavirus stalled them.

Various areas of Maine, including the Bangor International Airport, are reimplementing mask mandates due to changes in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) transmission map.