CUMBERLAND, Maine — When the acting head of the Social Security Administration ordered the termination of two data collection contracts with Maine in late February, a senior official on his leadership ...

With just 0.4 percent of the U.S. population, Maine is not the first state one might imagine Donald Trump to target so voraciously. Its image is defined more by coasts and forests than culture wars.

WASHINGTON — Maine’s hardy lobster fishery has, seemingly, seen it all. Good seasons and bad. The ups and downs of government regulations. The growing threat of warming seas. But this year, the ...