By Setareh Jalali Some good news for Portland Public School students: The Portland School Board voted this week to adjust the start and end times for the city’s public schools. Per the school board’s proposal document, the schedule for the 2021-2022…
By Setareh Jalali Choice Neighborhoods Initiative grant for $30 million. The city beat out Detroit, Cleveland, Camden, NJ, and Fort Myers, FL for the competitive grant. According to the city’s 2019 executive summary, officials plan to use the funds to address “the interconnected challenges…
By Setareh Jalali The FBI has launched an investigation into possible illegal campaign donations to Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins’ 2020 re-election campaign. According to a recent search warrant application, the FBI have reasons to believe the former CEO of the Hawaii-based defense company Navatek, now…
By Adam Rasgon Since Covid-19 first emerged in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a shortage of medical supplies has allowed authorities to administer only a relatively tiny number of coronavirus tests. Now, the sole laboratory in Gaza that processes test results has…
By Kelley Bouchard The federal government has seized $3.6 million from the bank account of a company involved in an international deal to sell the state $4.5 million in overpriced counterfeit N95 masks last December and January. The U.S. Attorney for…
By Al Jazeera The former United States police officer charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis last month will go on trial beginning on December 6, a state judge said on Monday. Kimberly Potter,…
By Colin Woodard The Passamaquoddy Tribe has reacquired almost the entirety of a 150-acre island in Big Lake that was illegally taken from them in the mid-19th century in violation of a 1794 treaty and the Maine Constitution. The acquisition…
By Al Jazeera Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region is facing a horrifying situation with people dying of hunger, health services destroyed and rape “rampant”, according to the World Health Organization chief, who is from the region. “The situation in Tigray, Ethiopia,…
By Al Jazeera Ethiopia has delayed its national election again after some opposition parties said they would not take part and as a conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there, further complicating Prime Minister…
By Emily Bader LEWISTON – As the state reaches significant milestones in the fight against COVID-19, Central and Western Maine continue to see high hospitalization numbers and struggle to catch up with the rest of the state in getting shots…