Some local leaders are calling out President Donald Trump's decision to reinstate what is known as the global gag rule.

Some believe the administration will alleviate financial pressures and secure the border. Others worry of potential consequences to the climate and immigrants.

Maine, meanwhile, is mired in a long-running debate over where to develop an offshore wind port — Mack Point, an existing industrial port in Searsport, or adjacent Sears Island, an undeveloped state-owned island linked by a causeway.

Trump signed a handful of executive orders Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

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President Donald Trump issued hundreds of presidential pardons Monday night. After former President Joe Biden pre-emptively pardoned people involved in the January 6 investigations, Trump has now pardoned the same people who stormed the U.

A Portland mom seeking asylum says there has been a lot of fear since President Trump announced new immigration policies, but she still feels safe sending her children to school.

The number of states suing the Trump administration, including Maine, over birthright citizenship is growing. Under the 14th Amendment, anyone born in the U.S. is granted automatic citizenship, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Commercial-scale leases in the Gulf of Maine, a state research project and plans for a turbine-assembly port will be affected by one of the new president's first executive orders.

In separate legal actions, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine sued the Trump administration over its executive order on Monday to rescind birthright citizenship.

Trump declared an energy emergency via executive order earlier this week amid a promise to “drill, baby, drill.”

ICE announced 969 arrests and 869 detainers in the latest of a series of daily enforcement updates since President Trump took office last week.