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A state lawmaker who flouted mask requirements in the Maine State House and fought against pandemic restrictions has resigned from his seat because of his wife’s COVID-19 death. Republican Rep. Chris Johansen, of Monticello, told House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in a letter this month that he needs to tend to his family farm. His wife, he wrote, had been dedicated to the farm, freeing him to serve in the Legislature. He was one of seven lawmakers who was stripped of committee assignments for refusing to wear masks in the State House after leaders required them. Both he and his wife...

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has died in northern Brazil, almost certainly from anthrax, after opening a suitcase suspected of containing the substance which he was taking to Canada. A spokesman for Brazilian federal police in the Amazon state of Para said on Monday an autopsy of the Egyptian man, whom he named as Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, showed that he had died after vomiting, internal bleeding and multiple organ failure. "He was the victim of anthrax," said Castro, adding that police were 90 percent certain that Ibrahim had died of anthrax. Ibrahim...

(Note: Don't Flame me--Original link is all caps and I don't have time to retype.)THE STORY HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY SUCH NATIONAL MEDIA AS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND C-N-N - NOT TO MENTION NATIONAL RADIO TALK SHOWS LIKE HOWIE CARR AND RUSH LIMBAUGH AND THE STORY CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR TOPIC IN NATIONAL NEWS AND OPINION PROGRAMS EVEN AS WE SPEAK. MULTITUDES OF EMAILS THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO TV5 BY CITIZENS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AMERICANS WHO ARE CONCERNED AFTER SEEING OUR REPORTS THAT THE CHILDREN OF DEPLOYING TROOPS ARE GETTING A HARD...

Public-school teachers in Maine – at least 12 of them – have told children of recently called-up National Guard members that any attack on Iraq would be illegal and immoral, thus insinuating that the students' parents are equally immoral, according to reports by local Guard personnel. WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine, first reported Friday that family members of two National Guard units recently deployed reported to the Guard's Family Assistance Program that teachers were making harassing comments to their children. The assistance program is designed to help families of Guard members who are called to active duty with information about various...

<p>Members of the Maine National Guard, called up to prepare for an attack on Iraq, have asserted that their children are being harassed at school by teachers who oppose the war.</p> <p>Guard members say their children are "coming home upset, depressed, crying," said Maj. Peter Rogers, a spokesman for the Maine National Guard. "This was based on some incidents that were happening in school, both in the classroom and on the playground."</p>

Public-school teachers in Maine – at least 12 of them – have told children of recently called-up National Guard members that any attack on Iraq would be illegal and immoral, thus insinuating that the students' parents are equally immoral, according to reports by local Guard personnel. WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine, first reported Friday that family members of two National Guard units recently deployed reported to the Guard's Family Assistance Program that teachers were making harassing comments to their children. The assistance program is designed to help families of Guard members who are called to active duty with information about various...