Legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) to prevent the Department of Education from transferring several major offices to other federal agencies advanced Thursday with bipartisan support.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard arguments Wednesday in a case out of Maine concerning the state’s new regulations on Super PAC contributions as approved by voters at the ballot box in 2024.

This comes after Maine State Attorney General Aaron Frey, alongside a number of other defendants, appealed a lower court ruling that nixed the measure last year.

🚨BREAKING🚨

The State House has removed the portrait of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell—once one of the most powerful Democrats in America—following renewed attention to his reported ties to Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/SU1wkel6Lm

— Maine House GOP (@MaineHouseGOP) February 27, 2026

WASHINGTON- President Donald J. Trump announced in a Truth Social post, Saturday afternoon, that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead, calling him “one of the most evil people in History” and declaring the development “Justice for the people of Iran” and for Americans and others around the world killed or injured by the Iranian regime.

When Democrat Troy Jackson and Republican Bobby Charles threw personal insults at each other during a recent debate, it was just too rough for the dainty Portland Press Herald.

The paper’s political columnist reports that the debate’s mudslinging tone failed to uphold Maine’s “national reputation for robust, elevated state politics.”

Steve Collins went even further, fawning over Angus King for having waged gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns “that honored the state’s traditions and decency.”

That’s absolutely laughable.

Angus has a record of just the opposite. You can look it up, as Yogi Berra would say.

King is noted for having called gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Joe Brennan, 60, a mummy in a campaign ad when they ran against each other in 1994.

A mummy.

“Decency?”

That would be the same Angus King who pushed his way into the 2012 Senate race by elbowing out Democrat U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who was the heir apparent looking for a promotion to the upper chamber.

Angus made a deal behind Chellie’s back with members of her own party, promising that even though he were running as an independent he would vote with the Dems if they’d send him to Washington.

“Decency,” in the words of Steve Collins.

When Susan Collins was running for re-election to the Senate in 2020, King pretended he was neutral but used his wife put up an ad saying she was fully supporting Collins’ opponent, a Democrat.

“Decency – Angus King.”

In his column, Steve Collins never mentioned the “decency” of Democrat William Hathaway, who defeated Republican Margaret Chase Smith in the 1972 Senate race after going around suggesting she was too elderly at 74 for reelection.

“Decency.”

Or when Democrats started a whisper campaign about their own gubernatorial hopeful Mike Michaud’s sexual preferences before the 2014 primary – and blamed Republicans for outing him.

Though Michaud became the Democrat nominee, by then he was damaged goods, losing to the Republican Paul LePage.

A third candidate in that race “independent” Elliot Cutler, became the secret face of “decency” gone awry, as we since have learned. The later-convicted pedophile was engaged in pornography even then, as he now has admitted.

Gov. Janet Mills (D) is looking to make free community college a permanent fixture in Maine as part of her proposed supplemental budget.

In recent years, a pandemic-era program has allowed several classes of graduating high school seniors to attend Maine’s community colleges both tuition- and fee-free.

A year after Maine’s top license-plate boss emerged politically wounded from a scandal over faulty tags, a new chapter of Plategate is emerging.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is now recommending to the legislature that Maine stop making its own plates altogether.

After Bellows hired a Canadian company last year to help with a new plate issue, the result became a political nightmare.

The plates feature an image of Maine’s iconic pine tree but the poor tree was misaligned on many of the finished products.

Bellows got a lot of negative publicity over the misplaced tree – not helpful as she geared up for a run at the governorship.

Her office also presided over the botched new license plate rollout, leaving motorists confused, municipalities frustrated, and law enforcement struggling with inconsistent plate designs and shifting deadlines.

WASHINGTON – Early Saturday morning, a joint U.S.-Israel military attack on Iran began, striking 14 sites as the operation got underway. 

President Donald Trump confirmed on February 28, 2026, that the United States and Israel has launched what he described as a “massive and ongoing” military campaign against Iran. In a video message posted to Truth Social, Trump said the primary objective was defending the American people by eliminating “imminent threats” from the Iranian regime. The Department of War is calling it Operation Epic Fury.

LEWISTON — A 22-year-old Lewiston woman is facing multiple felony charges after police say she fired several rounds during a street altercation Thursday evening near Pine and Howard streets.

According to the Lewiston Police Department, officers responded at 5:36 p.m. on February 26 to reports of gunshots in the area. When they arrived, officers located several witnesses who described an argument that had just taken place in the street moments before the shots were fired.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) learned the hard way Friday that President Donald J. Trump was serious about declaring War on Fraud during his Tuesday State of the Union Address.

Mills, unbeknownst to the rest of Maine, had quietly pleaded with the federal government for extra time to comply with a Feb. 6 demand from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for detailed records related to Maine’s administration of the multi-billion-dollar welfare program known in Maine as MaineCare.

MaineCare auditors attempted to recoup nearly $450,000 from the Somali-run Affinity Homecare, co-located with Rep. Yusuf Yusuf’s (D-Portland) shady Care for Everyone and a foreign money transfer station.

According to records obtained by the Maine Wire via a Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) request, auditors with the Office of MaineCare Services could find no documentation showing that the services for which Affinity billed the taxpayer-funded welfare program actually took place.

The Boston Globe columnist who previously was caught lying about being at the scene of a downtown bombing is now trying to make up for lost time on his latest gaffe.

Gaffe is actually too generous a description of Kevin Cullen’s most recent work of literature.

Cullen, who wrote sympathetically last week about a white Irish guy who was being deported as an illegal immigrant, faced a firestorm once a Boston media watchdog learned about the suspect’s alleged criminal record.

Now Cullen is trying to paper over his malaprops with a new column blaming “leaks” for exposing the truth about the detainee.