Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
Republicans’ intraparty tensions over whether to extend and expand radiation compensation for victims of U.S. nuclear weapons testing spilled out onto the Senate floor Thursday. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sought to unanimously advance a bill to extend existing benefits for victims covered under current law, but not expand it to new victims. He was blocked...
The House passed a bill Thursday barring the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) unless it has explicit authorization from Congress. The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act passed the chamber by a 216-192 vote, almost entirely along partisan lines. The move is largely symbolic, as the Fed has not put forward plans...
President Biden on Thursday said that a Kenyan-led multinational police force can succeed in overcoming armed gangs that have run amok across Haiti and captured the capital Port-au-Prince. When asked during a press conference with Kenyan President William Ruto at the White House if they can "break the backs" of the armed gangs, Biden responded...
A new study has found that patients vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus were less likely to experience symptoms of post-COVID condition, or long COVID. Researchers evaluated the link between vaccinations and long COVID symptoms by examining individuals across eight large health care systems in the United States. The study, published Wednesday in Nature Communications, used...
The House approved a bill Thursday that seeks to ban non-U.S.citizens from voting in local Washington, D.C., elections, once again taking aim at the capital city through legislation. The four-page measure, which passed 262-143, would forbid any noncitizens from voting in elections for municipal office or on ballot initiatives and referendums. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in...
President Biden and former President Trump are tied in a new survey testing the two White House hopefuls in a head-to-head match-up. The Marquette Law School poll found Biden and Trump with 50 percent support each among registered voters surveyed ahead of their expected November rematch. When three third-party candidates — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,...
Diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, commonly known as ADHD, are becoming an “expanding public health concern,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers said in a new study. Approximately 1 in 9 U.S. children, about 7 million, were diagnosed with ADHD in 2022, according to the study, published Wednesday. That marked about 1 million more...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he relates to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who said this week she’ll vote for former President Trump over President Biden in November. "I understand that journey, I was in that position," Cruz said during an appearance Wednesday evening on CNN. "Now, she didn't win any states, but she was the last person...
In a year where at least 64 countries are heading to the polls, we must be clear-eyed and vigilant of CCP attempts to rock the very core of our democracy: our elections.
A higher-than-normal number of hurricanes are expected to hit the Gulf Coast this summer and fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted on Thursday. The leading federal weather organization said there is an 85 percent chance of an above-normal hurricane season — which runs from June 1 through the end of November —...
