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Portland Police Make Nine Arrests At Protest PORTLAND, Maine – On Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 1:03 p.m., Portland Police responded to Senator Collins’ office on the eighth floor of One Canal Plaza for a report of approximately 50 people protesting. The group was repeatedly told if they did not disperse, individuals would be charged with Criminal Trespass. After several warnings, many of the protesters left the building, while nine remained and asked to be arrested. The following individuals were arrested, charged with Criminal Trespass and transported to the Cumberland County Jail: 65-year-old Norman Allen of Portland 60-year-old Christine Dyke...

Leftist LGBT advocacy groups seek to hijack Texas 'sex-ed' to teach medically inaccurate, highly sexualized LGBT programming as early as kindergarten. For the first time since 1997, Texas education officials are reviewing — and potentially revising — health standards for all Texas public schools. While this should be an opportunity for strengthening the current factual, biological standards, leftist LGBT advocacy groups are calling this review process a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to attack Texas’s abstinence-focused approach and teach medically inaccurate, highly sexualized LGBT programming as early as kindergarten.In Texas, the State Board of Education recently took public testimony on recommendations for new...