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Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

If Central Maine Power can salvage its planned hydropower corridor through western Maine, it may have a new partner to thank: Yale University.
Yale’s part in the $1 billion corridor project is relatively small, but one of its companies granted the Maine utility with an easement that would allow the route to bypass Beattie Pond. Central Maine Power officials have said the deal would increase the project’s cost by $950,000, though parts of it are opaque, as Yale’s operations here have always been. Here’s what we know.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined two other GOP senators in criticizing the president last week after he publicly asked the Chinese government to investigate a political opponent while talking to reporters outside the White House last week.

“I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent,” Collins said. “It’s completely inappropriate.”