Representative Mike Soboleski discussed the upcoming “Girl First” rally on Saturday, emphasizing support for girls in sports and Title IX. He criticized the Maine Human Rights Act for including gender identity, advocating for a bill to remove it. Rep Mike Soboleski highlighted the legislative tensions, including the Liz Caruso bill and the governor’s stance. He noted the recent school board vote to revoke the AC triple A policy. Soboleski also criticized the Democratic control in Augusta, citing a $120 million budget hole and suggesting using unfilled government positions and special revenue accounts to address it.
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.
