CAMDEN, Maine — Maine’s top election official ruled Thursday that Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year, fueling a national effort to disqualify the former president over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, follows a bombshell […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Maine’s top election official on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s U.S. presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former president for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, concluded that Trump, […]
Dec. 28—By Christine Condon — chcondon@baltsun.com PUBLISHED:December 28, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.| UPDATED:December 28, 2023 at 10:39 a.m. To achieve Maryland’s mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions over the next eight years, state officials will seek to implement a suite of new policies — and come up with about $1 billion per year in extra funding […]
December has been the most arduous month of the year for Ukraine’s Defence Forces on the Tavriia front. Source: Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for the Joint Press Centre of the Ukrainian Defence Forces on the Tavriia front, during the national joint 24/7 newscast Quote: “The most challenging month, I believe, is the last one [of the […]
Dec. 27—The state water official who was reassigned in a controversial move following the Lahaina fire disaster and then reinstated two months later is apparently leaving his job. The state water official who was reassigned in a controversial move following the Lahaina fire disaster and then reinstated two months later is apparently leaving his job. […]
An employee of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has described what she saw at the Al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza as “absolute carnage.” Gemma Connell told the BBC that there were many injured with “extremely severe wounds but [who] cannot be treated because there are so many people in front of […]
A Washington County man will be driving home in black and gold after winning the “official truck of the Pittsburgh Steelers.” Scott Shonts from Daisytown won the “Toughest Truck, Toughest Team” sweepstakes this year. Shonts and nine other finalists received tickets to the game today. They were chosen randomly out of the pool of applicants. […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service and Defense Ministry have exposed an official involved in the embezzlement of UAH 1.5 billion ($40 million) earmarked for the procurement of artillery shells for the Ukrainian military, the ministry said on Dec. 22. According to the message, several officials were implicated in the scheme, attempting to procure ammunition that had […]
A South Carolina man is facing charges after being accused of biting a 2-year-old, resulting in injuries. The man, identified as 23-year-old Jesse Phillip Brassell, was charged with cruelty to children, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division(SLED) announced on Tuesday. He was sent to the Colleton County Detention Center. Brassell told investigators that he bit […]
A senior official in the Defense Ministry has been detained over his suspected involvement in using an artillery shell contract to embezzle Hr 1.5 billion ($40 million), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Dec. 22. Recent months saw upheavals in the leadership of Ukraine’s defense sector, intended to stamp out corruption following several […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has alleged that Roman Ihnatov, head of the High Qualification Commission, a key agency in Ukraine’s judicial system, has Russian citizenship. Ihnatov, who worked as an investigator in Russia in the 1990s and was required by the law to be a Russian citizen at the time, denies having ever had Russian […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan girls of all ages are permitted to study in religious schools, which are traditionally boys-only, a Taliban official said Thursday. A day earlier, U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva told the Security Council and reporters that the United Nations was receiving “more and more anecdotal evidence” that girls could study at […]