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Capito co-chairs meeting where HHS Secretary Kennedy presents budget request

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito urged Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the cabinet secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to consider keeping National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health whole in his federal budget proposal. Kennedy presented his ...

Repeal of ‘National Popular Vote’ compact passes Maine House

Momentum for a political movement that would impose a so called, National Popular Vote, is losing steam. Only a year after Maine was added to the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), a bipartisan majority in the Maine House of Representatives today passed legislation to remove the ...

Endangered whales gave birth to few babies this year as population declines

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers only about 370 and has declined in ...