Mainers now have a chance to bridge the COVID-19 divide.
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Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
A bittersweet alternative: 7-on-7 touch football at Maine high schools
Despite the disappointment of no tackle football this fall, players relish the opportunity to compete – and have some fun.
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Posted inLocal & State
At York County Jail, masks were not allowed ahead of outbreak
Internal documents and interviews with inmates and one guard reveal how county officials flouted public health precautions.
Posted inNation & World
What we know, and what we don’t about Trump’s diagnosis
The president’s medical team has withheld some key information in a public briefing with reporters.
Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
The Latest: Biden urged governors not to endorse him out of fear they’d lose federal funding
Joe Biden says he urged some governors who wanted to endorse his presidential campaign to refrain from doing so because the Trump administration might retaliate by withholding medical supplies critical to COVID-19 relief. Addressing a virtual town hall of the Amalgamated Transit Union town hall from Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday, Biden said, “I probably shouldn’t […]
Posted inNation & World
Reports on Trump’s illness limited, conflicting
The president briefly paraded around Walter Reed, and his medical team confirmed he had begun a steroid treatment after a second bout of low blood oxygen.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Restaurants urge Senate to pass relief bill before it’s too late
A trade group says, without help, 85 percent of small restaurants could close by the end of 2020.
Posted inNation & World
No course correction for Republicans despite Trump’s positive test
They continue to move against mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions.
Posted inNation & World
Trump’s diagnosis shows U.S. vulnerability to coronavirus
The nation is averaging 40,000 cases a day, and if complacency sets in, infections will rise.
Posted inNation & World
Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused
Nearly 150,000 people have been sent back to their countries of origin without due process.