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President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes as congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict ...

The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge....

Biden was set to announce the order during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of the 1965 incident known as...

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access....

Video of the February incident has been made public at a time when the Rochester Police Department is under intense scrutiny over its interactions with Black residents....

"I really would hope that children would value our seniors and really believe that age is just a number."...

Senate passage of the sweeping relief bill Saturday puts President Joe Biden's top priority closer to becoming law....

The Texas mother claims the sleepover was orchestrated by her son's classmates to purposefully bully and abuse him....

The Islamic State's brutal three-year rule of much of northern and western Iraq, and the grueling campaign against it, left a vast swathe of destruction. Reconstruction efforts have stalled amid a years-long financial crisis....

Cuomo's workplace conduct has been under intense scrutiny in recent days as several women have publicly told of feeling sexually harassed, or at least made to feel demeaned and uncomfortable by the Democrat....

Wayne Gretzky remembered his father, Walter, as a man with "a heart of gold" at his funeral in Brantford, Ontario....

How's the weather looking for your Sunday? Get your latest Maine's Total Weather video forecast from Meteorologist Jacqueline Thomas....

Health experts say mask mandates help slow the spread of COVID-19, but some believe they are a restriction of their freedoms....

Social justice issues mark what's ahead this week....

The House plans to vote early next week on the $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan the Senate has approved. Here's who'll be getting a third stimulus check....

Saturday's high school hockey recap...

"In order to prevent some serious problems, this injection is very, very helpful," he said....

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska next year....

The countdown is on to the start of March Madness. While no one has ever had a perfect bracket, maybe 2021 is the year someone defies the huge odds....

"If you go to a business and they tell you to wear a mask, please either wear the mask or decide to take your business elsewhere," Houston's police chief said on Twitter....

Missy Franklin, who is married to former University of Texas swimmer Hayes Johnson, posted a photo of her and Johnson holding an ultrasound picture....

Brunswick (WGME) -- A Brunswick teen was selected out of hundreds of nominations across the country for the Future of Good Award. U-S Cellular announced Charlie Austin as one of three winners for the company's 6th annual future of good program. Charli...

Portland (WGME) -- A group of Mainers are taking the time to remember loved ones who passed away from opioid overdose. "Black Balloon Day" gives communities who are currently recovering from substance use disorders a moment to honor all the people...

Dozens of people gathered in front of the Minnesota governor's mansion on Saturday to demand accountability for police officers, days before a former Minneapolis officer is scheduled to go on trial in the death of George Floyd....

President Biden said Saturday that the plan means $1,400 checks to individuals would be sent out this month....

Saturday's high school basketball recap...

The autographed card is one of only 100 cards in the world, according to the online auction house that brokered the deal....

How's the weather looking for your Saturday? Get your latest Maine's Total Weather video forecast from Meteorologist Jacqueline Thomas....

The Senate has now passed a version of Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan, which includes a third round of stimulus checks to Americans....

The Daytona Beach police chief asked people to be safe during Bike Week and to be "smarter than this guy."...

Portland, Oregon, last year dissolved a special police unit designed to focus on gun violence during the national reckoning over racial injustice. Some say disbanding the unit was a mistake....

502 Mainers died from accidental overdoses in 2020....

NBA commissioner Adam Silver cautioned the league's plans are dependent on continued progress in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus....

"People aren't going out to dinner as much, so they're cooking more. They're not being quite as careful with grease going down their drain lines. (They're) using more toilet paper."...

She agreed to pay people $1,500 to make her ex-mother-in-law';s death look like an accident, the Camden County prosecutor's office said....

The 22-year-old poet tweeted:...

A judge has ruled that Associated Newspapers must apologize for printing Meghan's private letter to her father....

Drug agents say seized evidence including fentanyl with an estimated street value of $43,000....

The relief bill approved Saturday by the Senate has direct payments of up to $1,400 for most Americans, extended unemployment benefits and more child tax credits....

Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced bars and tasting rooms can open for indoor service on March 26....

U.S Senate passes $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. The vote was 50-49...

The suit was filed in 2019 but the bloggers involved recently posted about it on their Instagram account, catapulting the case into the public....

The NTSB update also said a fan blade that failed in the Boeing 777's engine had most recently received a close inspection for wear and tear in 2016 and was less than halfway to the point of requiring another inspection....

President Biden addressed the nation Saturday praising Senator Chuck Schumer on his work in getting the bill through the Senate....

Maine senators Angus King and Susan Collins split on the vote Saturday for the narrowly passed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill....

The defense is scheduled to make its closing arguments beginning March 18, before the court decides the verdict and sentence....

Agents said they seized $43,000 worth of fentanyl and $51,000 in suspected drug proceeds from the couple's home, according to the MDEA...

Senator Susan Collins voted in opposition to the partisan $1. 9 trillion spending bill Saturday. The package was narrowly approved on a strictly party-line vote of 50-49. Collins introduced an alternative $60 billion package during the amendment process. ...

Senator Susan Collins voted in opposition to the partisan $1. 9 trillion spending bill Saturday. The package was narrowly approved on a strictly party-line vote of 50-49. Collins introduced an alternative $60 billion package during the amendment process. ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Five Maine educational institutions are being designated as "Military Friendly Schools. "The University of Maine at Augusta, Husson University and Maine Maritime Academy earned the designation along with Central Maine Commu...