Melania Trump and Usha Vance are making an early holiday visit with North Carolina military families

UMaine is on the hook for the financial shortfalls of a hotel on campus

Now the public university plans to put students in the hotel to offset costs, but it will pay more than $1 million in rent each year to do so.

Rockland manufacturing plant set to be sold

The plant is being sold off as part of a $4.3 billion deal.

The Latest: Trump pivots back to sanctions for Iran as other strategies to end his war fizzle

President Donald Trump on Monday said that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same. It’s part of a larger pivot by Trump, who’s arguing that Iran is on the cusp of financially collapsing, even though the decades of financial sanctions it faces aren’t an immediate conflict-ending tool. […]

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs chooses former Republican Mayor John Giles as her running mate

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has picked a Republican-turned-independent to be her running mate in a tough reelection campaign, setting up a bipartisan ticket as voters elect the state’s first lieutenant governor. Hobbs’ selection Tuesday of John Giles, a former mayor of Mesa, a Phoenix suburb that is Arizona’s third-largest city, is […]

How Troy Jackson’s strategy against Susan Collins breaks from Graham Platner’s

With control of the Senate on the line, Jackson has dropped much of the rhetoric that defined Platner’s campaign.