Matt Gagnon discussed the upcoming absence of Phil Harriman and encouraged listener engagement. He highlighted the Ryan Fecteau interview and the passage of the “big beautiful bill,” noting Collins’ decision not to support it. Gagnon also covered Governor Janet Mills’ decision to leave the sanctuary state bill in limbo until the next legislative session. He speculated on Mills’ political motivations and criticized her for not vetoing the bill immediately. Gagnon also compared Maine and New Hampshire’s budgets, noting New Hampshire’s lower spending and lack of certain taxes, and criticized the media’s reporting on the “big beautiful bill.”
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.
