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Military Boards Go Rogue On Hegseth’s Transgender Troop Ban

By Jillian Butler, DCNF Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation Military boards are disobeying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on openly transgender-identifying service members in the U.S. Armed ...
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Gov. Mills Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Mark Third Anniversary of Lewiston Mass Shooting

Gov. Janet Mills has ordered the United States and State of Maine flags to be lowered to half-staff statewide from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, October 25, 2026, to honor the victims and survivors of ...
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‘AK Guy’ Roasts Dem Congressman Over Ad Supporting Massachusetts Gun Ban

By Harold Hutchison, Second Amendment Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Texas congressional nominee Brandon Herrera called out Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss over ...
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America’s Companies Keep Flirting With Security Nightmare That’s ‘100 Times’ Worse Than TikTok

By Sean Moran, DCNF Reporter, Daily Caller News Foundation A rising San Francisco human resources startup’s use of a blacklisted Chinese AI lab’s model is setting off alarm bells as Beijing continues ...
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SCOTUS Declines to Hear 72-Hour Waiting Period Case Out of Maine

The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to Maine’s new 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases. Gun rights advocates had petitioned the Court to review a First Circuit ...
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Opinion: Dunlap’s Flip-Flop on ‘Red Flag’ Law

By John Petrolino District 2 Congressional candidate Matthew Dunlap says he supports the Second Amendment and is a gun owner. However, he’s gone on the record saying Maine’s “red flag” law is ...
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Sanford Police Conduct Sweep of International Woolen Mill After Maine Wire Showed it Being Used as a Homeless Encampment

The Sanford Police Department swept through the abandoned International Woolen Mill on Tuesday after The Maine Wire revealed ...
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Bangor Homeless Man Charged After Setting Off Firework in Residential Street

The Bangor Police Department charged a homeless man on Wednesday after he allegedly set off a firework in the middle of a Bangor street. [RELATED: Bangor Homeless Man Arrested After Stealing a Large ...
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How Candidates for Governor Would Change Maine Health Care Policy

Policy experts have warned that Mainers are facing a cliff in affordable, accessible health care. About 31,000 Maine ...
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Elderly Mainer Saved from $11,000 Scam by Massachusetts Police

The Newburyport, Massachusetts, Police Department saved an elderly Mainer from an $11,000 bitcoin scam on Tuesday after a caller impersonated a government official. [RELATED: Cumberland Sheriff ...
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Minor Charged after Hoax Bomb Threat Against Waterville High School Leads to Evacuation

The Waterville Police Department charged a minor after the minor allegedly made a bomb threat against the Waterville Senior ...
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Muslim School Official in Portland Suggests New Policy on Dogs, Citing “Ritual Purity” While Speaking In Front of Iraqi Flag

Abdullahi Ahmed, the Somali-born assistant superintendent for student, family and community partnerships at Portland Public Schools, proposed changes to the district’s policy on dogs and other animals ...