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Collins insists socialist rival won’t beat her as Maine’s money machine: ‘You’ll lose big time’
BANGOR, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is warning that Maine could lose crucial federal funding if voters replace her with Democrat Troy Jackson, as a new poll shows the candidates statistically tied ahead of their final debate Thursday.
Jackson, a one-time logger and former Maine Senate president, edged Collins 49%-47% in a Suffolk University poll conducted Oct. 8-11 and released on the eve of the final debate. Jackson’s two-point edge over Collins among likely voters was well within the survey’s margin of error, and the poll was the latest to indicate an extremely close contest.
The face-off between Collins and Jackson in the blue-leaning Northern New England state is a top flip opportunity for the Democrats as they try to win back the Senate majority from the Republicans in the midterm elections.
The Power Rankings rate the race in Maine as a toss up, as do leading nonpartisan political handicappers the Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
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«Maine voters lose out big time if Troy Jackson were to be elected,» Collins said in an exclusive Digital interview on Wednesday.
Collins, who is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, has showcased her nearly three decades of Senate experience and her leadership role as Senate Appropriations Committee chair as integral to her ability «to get so much done for the people of Maine.» She warned that if Jackson replaced her, «he’ll be 100 in seniority, and all of that essential federal funding targeted for the state of Maine, virtually all of it will go away.»
Jackson has argued that Collins has not used her Senate power to protect Maine families from soaring energy, food, and housing costs. «Sen. Collins has told us how powerful she is,» Jackson said during their first debate. «But power means nothing if you won’t use it when the people may need it.»
Jackson and Democrats have also repeatedly aimed to anchor Collins to President Donald Trump, whose approval ratings in Maine and across the country are cratering ahead of the midterms.
«That’s the choice on this stage — a senator who helps Donald Trump hurt Maine then tells us how concerned she is, or somebody who will stand up against him before another family in Maine has to pay the price,» Jackson said during Tuesday’s third debate.
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Collins is known as a moderate Republican who at times has voted against the president. But Jackson and Democrats are targeting the senator over her comments that she didn’t regret her 2018 vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose crucial vote four years later helped overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
And following the fatal shooting in Maine this summer involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Democrats heavily criticized Collins for her support for ICE funding.
But Collins has broken with Trump numerous times in recent months, criticizing his tariff war with neighboring Canada and voting against Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation.
«Troy and Chuck Schumer and their allies run ads saying that I’m somehow a puppet of the president. Believe me, that would come as a huge surprise to President Trump,» Collins told Digital.
Collins noted, «I opposed the deal that he made with Vladimir Putin to get a small amount of diesel, and in return lift the sanctions that we just passed into law, and the president is not following the law. I signed a bipartisan letter that urges the president to reconsider that. I opposed the president’s signature legislative accomplishment, the One Big Beautiful Bill, because it contained cuts in Medicaid that… I know would be harmful to Maine.»
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The senator was interviewed in Bangor after landing the endorsement of the Maine chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police.
«I’ve secured funding for projects throughout Maine, $46 million to help our police and sheriff’s departments upgrade their equipment, facilities, and communications,» Collins told Digital.
And she took aim at Jackson, who won a special nominating convention in late July to fill the party’s Senate nomination, which was left vacant after primary winner Graham Platner ended his campaign following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated. Platner denied the report but dropped out.
Jackson, who earlier this year unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, had campaigned alongside Platner during the primary campaign.
«Troy was Graham Platner’s biggest supporter and stayed with him to the very end of Graham’s campaign, and Graham repeatedly denigrated law enforcement,» Collins said. «I never heard Troy publicly condemn those disrespectful and horrible comments.»
Collins added, «During his gubernatorial campaign, Troy was endorsed and welcomed the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America. One of the key parts of the DSA platform is to defund the police.»
The Jackson campaign, responding, pointed out that «Jackson is not a Democratic Socialist» and has repeatedly said he does not support defunding the police. The campaign added that Jackson called on Platner to drop out and «has been clear he will not accept a Platner endorsement.»
«Susan Collins is lying about Troy’s record because she knows that Mainers are ready to retire her after she’s voted with Donald Trump 96% of the time to cut their healthcare, confirmed Brett Kavanaugh who overturned Roe v. Wade, enabled Trump’s war in Iran that’s raising energy costs, and failed to stop his reckless tariffs that are causing costs to skyrocket,» the Jackson campaign told Digital.
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But Collins disputed the 96% figure, saying that it came from a study that only covered a third of her Senate votes.
«A study that looked at 90% of the votes showed that I supported the president 72% of the time,» she added. «The bottom line is, I support him when I think he’s right. I don’t when I think he’s wrong.»
Collins, who is the only GOP senator seeking re-election in a state Trump lost in the 2024 election, has a history of surviving Democratic efforts to unseat her.
Six years ago, she trailed Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, the then-Maine House speaker, but the senator ended up winning re-election by nearly nine points while former President Joe Biden carried the state by a similar margin.
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Wave of bomb threats disrupts, diverts flights across Europe
Fox News foreign correspondent Jeff Paul reports on a series of bomb threats forcing multiple commercial flights to divert or make emergency landings across Europe. Paul details incidents involving Aer Lingus, Finnair and Wizz Air flights alongside previous security warnings that government authorities classified as hoaxes.
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Multiple planes across Europe were diverted and forced to make emergency landings Thursday because of bomb threats that have turned out to be unfounded.
At least 11 planes, originating from cities including Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan and Warsaw, have been affected. The source of the threats was not immediately clear.
These incidents came after several flights in Europe received similar warnings on Tuesday that the U.K. government described as «malicious hoax threats.»
«Upon receiving a threat regarding the placement of an improvised explosive device on board 4 aircraft heading to Prague, we are preparing with colleagues from Prague Airport for their landing. We assess the relevance of the threats as low,» Czech Police wrote on X, before adding that inspections of the planes yielded «negative results.»
The threats come at a time when European officials have been blaming Russia and Iran for «hybrid attacks» and acts of sabotage, which both Moscow and Tehran deny, Reuters reported.
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A Ryanair plane sits at Sofia Airport after flights from Copenhagen and Madrid landed there, according to the Bulgarian interior minister, as bomb threats forced unplanned landings across Europe on Nov. 5, 2026. (Reuters)
Earlier, a flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to a military air base in western France because of a bomb threat, according to French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s office. That flight landed safely at the base in Evreux in Normandy, with all 151 passengers and six crew members disembarking, the office said.
A LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw to Brussels landed at its destination, where inspections found no hazardous or suspicious items, the airline said.
A Wizz Air flight from Milan to Bucharest landed safely in Bucharest following a bomb threat, according to airport spokesperson Teo Postelnicu.
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A police officer and a sniffer dog inspect a Ryanair airplane and its baggage after Ryanair’s operations center reported a bomb threat received during a flight from Manchester to Murcia, according to Guardia Civil, in Murcia, Spain, on Nov. 3, 2026. (Reuters)
Finnair said that Flight 1761 from Helsinki to Rome was targeted by a bomb threat, but nothing was found after it landed in the Italian capital.
Three Ryanair flights bound for Sofia, Bulgaria, had to make emergency landings because of bomb threats on board.
A Finnair aircraft sits on the tarmac at Fiumicino Airport in Fiumicino, near Rome, Italy, on Nov. 5, 2026, after a Finnair flight from Helsinki was escorted to its scheduled landing by Italian Air Force jets following bomb threats that forced airliners to make unplanned landings across Europe. (Reuters)
Two of the flights — one from Copenhagen, Denmark, and the other from Madrid — landed safely at Sofia’s Vasil Levski Airport, airport officials told reporters. The third Sofia-bound flight, from London’s Stansted Airport to Sofia, had been diverted and landed safely at the airport in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second-largest city, Plovdiv Airport CEO Krassimir Peshev said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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La Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (ENEE) contabiliza alrededor de 2.500 usuarios residenciales beneficiados con la condonación de sus deudas y cerca de 250 personas y empresas que acudieron voluntariamente a regularizar irregularidades en sus sistemas de medición del consumo eléctrico, como parte de las medidas impulsadas para ordenar las finanzas.
Las cifras fueron dadas a conocer por el gerente general de la ENEE, Guillermo Peña Panting, quien explicó que ambos procesos muestran un incremento en la participación de los usuarios que buscan resolver sus compromisos pendientes con la estatal y corregir anomalías en la medición de la energía que consumen.
Según el funcionario, este mecanismo está orientado a personas que mantenían obligaciones pendientes con la institución y que pueden acogerse a las disposiciones establecidas para el alivio de sus deudas.
En paralelo, la ENEE registra cerca de 250 regularizaciones voluntarias de personas naturales y empresas que presentaban algún tipo de irregularidad en sus sistemas de medición eléctrica.
Panting explicó que quienes se presentan voluntariamente pueden corregir su situación sin recibir castigos ni multas, por lo que instó a los usuarios que todavía tienen anomalías en sus instalaciones o equipos de medición a aprovechar el período habilitado por la normativa.
La diferencia entre ambos procedimientos radica en que la condonación está dirigida a usuarios residenciales con deudas pendientes, mientras que las regularizaciones voluntarias buscan corregir irregularidades en los sistemas de medición del servicio eléctrico.
Reducir irregularidades
Uno de los componentes del proceso impulsado por la ENEE apunta a la identificación y corrección de anomalías en los equipos utilizados para registrar el consumo de electricidad.
Estas irregularidades pueden estar vinculadas con sistemas de medición que no reflejan correctamente la energía utilizada por los abonados.
La institución busca incentivar que los usuarios se acerquen por iniciativa propia para solucionar cualquier situación pendiente, en lugar de esperar a que se desarrollen procesos de inspección o detección de anomalías.
El funcionarionreiteró que el plazo para acogerse a este beneficio se mantiene vigente hasta finales de 2026. Durante ese período, las personas y empresas que tengan problemas con sus sistemas de medición podrán presentarse ante la estatal para regularizar su condición sin exponerse a multas ni castigos.
El llamado también busca que los abonados mantengan actualizada su situación ante la empresa eléctrica y contribuyan a mejorar los registros de consumo, un aspecto relevante para la facturación y la administración de los recursos del sistema energético.
La participación voluntaria es uno de los elementos que la ENEE busca fortalecer, dado que las diferencias entre la energía suministrada, la registrada por los medidores y la facturada inciden en los resultados financieros de la institución.
Ordenamiento de la medición
Otro de los procesos anunciados por Panting corresponde a la revisión y ordenamiento de los sistemas de medición eléctrica de 215 alcaldías del país.
El funcionario indicó que los trabajos ya comenzaron y comprenden municipalidades ubicadas en las categorías C y D contempladas en la legislación vigente.
Esta iniciativa se desarrolla mediante la coordinación de la ENEE con la Secretaría de Gobernación y Justicia y la Asociación de Municipios de Honduras (AMHON), con el propósito de avanzar en la revisión de las condiciones de medición del servicio eléctrico en las corporaciones municipales.
La incorporación de las alcaldías al proceso representa otro componente del ordenamiento que la estatal pretende extender a distintos sectores de sus usuarios, incluyendo instituciones públicas y consumidores residenciales y empresariales.
En el ámbito institucional, Panting destacó la aprobación anticipada del reglamento del Comité de Conducción, un instrumento relacionado con el proceso de reorganización del sector eléctrico.
Según explicó, este avance se concretó antes de los plazos previstos en la ley, lo que permite desarrollar las siguientes etapas del proceso con mayor planificación y precisión.
La aprobación del reglamento constituye uno de los pasos administrativos para orientar las acciones de ordenamiento, establecer mecanismos de coordinación y dar seguimiento a las medidas que se ejecutan en el sector energético.
La recuperación financiera de la ENEE constituye uno de los principales desafíos de este proceso, debido a la necesidad de mejorar sus ingresos, reducir las pérdidas y fortalecer la administración de los recursos provenientes de la prestación del servicio eléctrico.
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump may be briefed on sprawling cartel networks and massive drug seizures, but sometimes it’s the story of a single American crime victim that captures his attention, a White House official told Digital.
The official described how Trump can shift from discussions about major criminal organizations to an individual harmed by crime, pressing officials about what more the federal government can do to protect everyday Americans.
«I could be talking about very grand cartel stuff, which he’s very interested in,» the official said, explaining that the president may instead focus on one person hurt by criminal activity.
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The official said Trump receives regular briefings that include photographs of narcotics seized by federal agents. While the president takes pride in successful enforcement operations, the official described his reaction as quickly turning to the amount of work still ahead.
The president’s response to the photographs, according to the official, is to ask what more can be done to stop the flow of drugs into American communities. Trump also pressed for federal agencies to work together as the administration seeks to dismantle entire criminal organizations rather than simply arrest their leaders as agencies have done in the past.
That approach is at the center of a campaign that has brought together more than 20 federal agencies under the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative.
According to figures provided by the White House, the task forces made nearly 12,000 arrests during fiscal year 2026, seized approximately 161 metric tons of drugs, $482 million in criminal assets and nearly 13,000 weapons.
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The administration also reported 676 criminal organizations disrupted in figures provided to Digital. The task forces have 6,585 active investigations, including more than 1,000 targeting major drug kingpins and 814 targeting designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The task force operates nationwide, bringing together federal law enforcement agencies with hundreds of state, local and international partners. Its public website, HSTF.gov, outlines the initiative’s mission, participating agencies and enforcement efforts targeting cartels, transnational gangs and other criminal organizations.
Behind those numbers, the official described an effort to break down longstanding divisions among federal law enforcement agencies that previously pursued overlapping investigations with varying degrees of cooperation.
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The official said more than 1,800 cartel-related narcotics task forces previously operated across the country, with varying degrees of coordination.
Agencies including the FBI, DEA and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) could pursue overlapping targets, occasionally competing to bring indictments first.
Interagency disagreements sometimes left investigations stalled for years, the official said.
Under the new approach, the National Coordination Center brings together the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, with support from military and intelligence partners, to resolve conflicts and coordinate investigations across jurisdictions.
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«Now we’re all indicting together,» the official said.
Rather than focusing exclusively on high-value targets, investigators are pursuing the transportation networks, distributors, collectors and money launderers that keep criminal enterprises operating.
The official explained that taking down a cartel leader does not necessarily dismantle the organization because others can quickly assume leadership.
«There’s five more people ready to step up as soon as we take out one,» the official said.
A sweeping federal investigation into the Trinitarios gang in Massachusetts illustrates the kind of coordinated law enforcement effort the administration is pursuing.
In June, federal prosecutors announced racketeering conspiracy charges against 26 alleged gang leaders, members and associates in connection with five murders and 19 attempted murders.
The announcement brought the total number of Trinitarios members charged in related investigations over two years to 56. Prosecutors alleged the gang’s involvement in 11 murders and 30 attempted murders since 2017.
Court documents describe chapters operating in the Boston area whose members allegedly engaged in drug trafficking, kidnappings and witness intimidation. Investigators also alleged the gang recruited minors attending local schools, sometimes using younger members to conceal weapons or serve as lookouts.
The investigation involved HSI, the FBI, DEA, ATF and state and local law enforcement partners. The investigation began before the HSTF initiative, and the charges remain allegations against defendants who have not been convicted.
The task force’s reach also extends to drug trafficking operations moving narcotics across state lines.
In Louisiana, federal prosecutors announced five cases involving more than a dozen defendants and hundreds of kilograms of narcotics.
Near Breaux Bridge, investigators discovered approximately 147 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed inside modified ice cream freezers. In another case near Lafayette, authorities found approximately 100 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside an 18-wheeler’s cab.
The White House official also pointed to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan criminal organization that drew national attention during the 2024 presidential campaign, as an example of the administration’s broader strategy.
Digital extensively covered allegations of Tren de Aragua activity at apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, including accounts from local officials and residents who described violence and intimidation.
Trump subsequently made Aurora a recurring focus of his criticism of the Biden administration’s border policies.
The official recalled Digital’s reporting on the controversy and argued that the administration’s coordinated enforcement campaign has weakened the gang’s ability to operate openly in the United States.
«I’m not saying they’re completely gone here, but they are so on their heels because we have this concerted effort taken,» the official said.
«You don’t see them bragging in the social media anymore,» the official added.
In May, the Justice Department announced charges against more than 25 defendants in a nationwide Tren de Aragua crackdown spanning six federal judicial districts. Authorities reported seizing more than 80 firearms, approximately 18 kilograms of narcotics and more than $100,000.
The official described the crackdown as an example of the administration’s effort to pursue criminal organizations at multiple levels, rather than concentrating solely on their leaders.
The administration is seeking to apply that same approach to more deeply established criminal networks, including the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.
The official said the task force’s ultimate objective is not simply accumulating arrests or celebrating drug seizures, but reducing the ability of criminal organizations to threaten Americans.
For Trump, the official said, even major seizures can serve as reminders of the work still ahead. The president may take pride in enforcement results, but the official described his attention as quickly turning to how much more needs to be done to stop narcotics from reaching American communities.
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