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This month, as Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act plans opened their first bills of 2026 and experienced sticker shock, President Donald Trump began pitching them on an alternative: his “Great ...

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A fast-moving measles outbreak in South Carolina reached a grim milestone recently: It is now the biggest outbreak in the United States in a quarter-century. It’s the latest public health record to be ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a professor at a small university. One of my colleagues has the annoying habit of entering my office without knocking. Miss Manners: I don’t mind questions about my hair, ...

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Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor, columnist and reporter for 40 years. The author of four books, his new study of the Ken Curtis administration is due in the spring. He welcomes comment at [email ...

Yes, we have to imagine her stalker, Angus the Anxious, as not a Rhodes scholar with a sharp lawyer as his wife, but actually some caveman leading testosteroned troglodytes who can’t accept a woman as ...

Lucas Benedict of Westbrook stands near his Suburban Propane tanks on Wednesday. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer) With a major snowstorm expected last Sunday and Monday, Lucas and Luci ...