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Aw shucks: Dolly Parton corn mazes crop up in fields nationwide
BROOKFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Dolly Parton ’s megawatt smile and big wavy locks are gracing fields across the U.S. and Canada this fall. Twenty farms have carved out large corn mazes to honor the late…
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5mPhotographer Chick Harrity, who documented history for AP from Vietnam to the White House, has died
NEW YORK (AP) — Photographer Chick Harrity, who documented the Vietnam War and eight sitting U.S. presidents for The Associated Press and U.S. News and World Report, has died. He was 87. Harrity took one of the best-known photographs of the Vietnam War, of a baby girl lying in a box alongside her brother in […]
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4mSusan Collins votes with Democrats against Donald Trump-backed crypto overhaul
The 50-49 tally dealt a defeat to an industry-backed push for a uniform regulatory framework.
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8mTrump's push to restrict mail ballots has failed. Other efforts to reshape the midterms are ongoing
NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court this week closed the chapter on one of President Donald Trump’s boldest efforts to reshape November’s elections — a plan that would have demanded a dramatic overhaul of the nation’s mail voting processes on what most election officials agreed was an impossibly short timeline. But the case was […]
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3mBangor councilor’s spouse will be allowed to serve on school board
Jamie Beck’s candidacy was held up over a charter provision for appointed boards that new evidence suggests doesn't apply the elected School Committee.
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5mTrump and the court: If he wins, he's happy. When he loses, he ridicules justices he appointed
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken his wins, and more notably his losses, at the U.S. Supreme Court quite personally. It is a court he shaped with three nominees during his first term and he has frequently expressed admiration when the court rules his way, only to turn sharply critical when it delivers […]