A passenger in a car in Maine fatally shot his mother before shooting at passing vehicles, killing another motorist and injuring two others, then died by suicide, state police said Thursday.

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner is facing calls to resign after he issued an order that would have required Maine parents to register their newborns for Social Security numbers at a federal office rather than the hospital.

The Maine Retail Association calls the bill government overreach and says most Maine businesses already accept cash.

An order to ban Maine parents from registering their newborns at local hospitals was issued to punish the state’s governor for defying the Trump administration, emails show.

Maine's lobster industry has largely been spared from the biggest direct hits from President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada. China, however, has placed a 10% tariff on U.S. lobster exports.

Officials in Maine have spent weeks in a state of “whiplash and worry,” in the words of one educator, hit with probes that are unlike anything experts say they have seen.

Gov. Janet Mills apparently hurt Donald Trump's feelings in February. The result has been a multifaceted offensive against the Democrat's home state.