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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

On the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, he used his executive power to remove protections for LGBTQ+ people, including a declaration that the federal government would not recognize trans and nonbinary people.

Faith leaders nationwide are pushing back against President Donald Trump's assertion that churches are no longer considered safe spaces for undocumented immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security has rescinded expanded guidelines set by the Biden administration that thwarted arrests in so-called sensitive areas - including churches,

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.

As promised, President Donald Trump pumped the brakes on offshore wind projects as part of his Day 1 agenda. Among the slew of executive orders signed Monday was a temporary withdrawal of all areas of the outer continental shelf from new or renewed offshore wind leasing.

Matthew Brackley of Waldoboro and Benjamin Bowden from Orrington were among the 15 Mainers who were pardoned for their role in the January 6th riots.