Representative Laurel Libby discussed her reaction to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s decision to uphold the voter ID referendum language, criticizing Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ manipulative wording. Libby also spoke about her recent event in Cumberland County, focusing on free speech and the importance of dissenting voices. She expressed her concern about Maine’s future, particularly for young people, and her active exploration of a run for Governor in 2026. Libby emphasized the need to take the state back from the current Democrat majority to advance a better future for Maine.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
