Susan Collins

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers introduced fresh legislation on Thursday seeking to address the problem of sexual assault in the military and summoned the nation's top commanders to testify about the crisis, which has become an embarrassment to the armed...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers introduced fresh legislation on Thursday seeking to address the problem of sexual assault in the military and summoned the nation's top commanders to testify about the crisis, which has...

Rape and sexual abuse perpetrated against members of the military by fellow service members have reached epidemic proportions and are a national disgrace. Despite several years of increasing public awareness, these crimes against women and men serving...

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military. The magazine reported that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed in combat. And, according to the Pentagon, sexual assaults...

Former Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe was all over the media landscape last week promoting her new book, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress." Snowe's suggestions on congressional reforms (among them open primaries and an...

Gov. Paul LePage vetoed his sixth bill of the legislative session Friday afternoon. LD 319 directed Maine Revenue Services to review Maine's conformity with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which is an agreement among several states and...

By the time Patricia Marshall enrolled at Colby College in the fall of 1990, she had endured a childhood of poverty that likely would have shocked most of her classmates. She had lived most of her years in rural Maine without indoor plumbing. To...

Maine's U.S. House and Senate members agreed Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its bounds by subjecting conservative groups to more scrutiny, but differed on whether the inquiries were politically motivated. The scandals dominating...

It's lunchtime on a warm, sunny Friday in downtown Washington. The sidewalks around Farragut Square -- a postage stamp of grass and benches two blocks from the White House -- are packed with hundreds of hungry workers mulling the culinary choices...

Workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery got a reprieve Tuesday from federal budget cuts that will require more than 600,000 civilian defense employees nationwide to take unpaid days off. The Pentagon announced that the Navy's four public...

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, May 14: ___ Internal Revenue Service has found itself at the other end of an audit, and rightly so. The recent revelation that the agency targeted conservative groups for...

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has called the still-unfolding scandal within the Internal Revenue Service "absolutely chilling" -- and doesn't believe the misconduct was solely the work of a handful of rogue agents. Nor do we. We're as outraged as...