Bangor Daily News

The U.S.’s historic economic expansion has so enriched one-percenters that they now hold almost as much wealth as the middle- and upper-middle classes combined.
The top 1 percent of American households have enjoyed huge returns in the stock market in the past decade, to the point that they now control more than half of the equity in U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

This week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the legal battle over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the 2012 policy that has temporarily protected from deportation many undocumented individuals who were brought to the United States as children.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Harvard University Crimson outscored the University of Maine Black Bears 37-15 in the second half to earn a 67-46 men’s basketball victory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday.
The Black Bears led by as much as seven in the first half and took a 31-30 lead into intermission, but Harvard started the second half on a 9-0 scoring run and went on to hold Maine to just 22.7 percent shooting (5 of 22) from the field in the second half.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Donald Trump Jr. and Trump campaign senior adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle came prepared with snappy rejoinders for liberal protesters who might taunt them on Sunday at the University of California at Los Angeles, where they promoted Trump Jr.’s new book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.”

The driver involved in a crash in Litchfield that killed a married couple Saturday remains at a Portland hospital.
Shawn Metayer, 60, of Litchfield was still hospitalized at Maine Medical Center in Portland on Monday as state troopers continued to investigate the deadly collision, according to Katy England, a spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

There’s an inescapable reality when you live on a farm or spend a lot active time out of doors: Accidents happen and you can get hurt. Which is why every farmer, homesteader and outdoors enthusiast knows the value of a good field first aid kit and woodland wound care.

Rocker Neil Young says he passed the U.S. citizenship test, but he’s not legal yet.
“I have been told that I must do another test, due to my use of marijuana and how some people who smoke it have exhibited a problem,” the Canada native wrote on his website.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In 2017, seven years after he’d completed two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, Auburn resident and Maine National Guard veteran Scott Morgan had hit rock bottom with his post-traumatic stress disorder.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

CORALVILLE, Iowa — Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders let loose a volley of sharp attacks against Michael Bloomberg on Saturday night, accusing the former New York mayor in his bluntest language yet of positioning himself to buy the election and vowing to stop him from doing so.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran on Sunday said an open Revolutionary Court case involving an ex-FBI agent who disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission “was a missing person” filing, not a sign that the man was being prosecuted.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share