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and pray that everyone in lewiston is healing and moving forward in peace. wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. see you at the end of tomorrow. >> the president of the united states just wrote a personal check for the payment of hush e money as part of a criminal scheme to file a kind pan

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. >> reporter: pressing on the only way they know how, lewiston strong. nbc news, lewiston, maine. >> we wish justin and samantha the best of luck in reopening the bowling alley and pray that everyone in lewiston is healing and moving forward in peace. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. see you at the end of tomorrow. >> the president of the united states just wrote a personal check for the payment of hush e money as part of a criminal scheme to file a kind pan finance loss. >> he says to me something to the effect of, don't worry, michael. your january and february reimbursement checks are coming. >> the witness we could see, including a few surprises. >>> the dystopic origins of arizona's new abortion law as republican panic sets in. >> the only issue they think they have is on abortion, and now all i say is, the states are handling it. for mac >>> the death of o.j. simpson. >> we the above find the defendant, or ja

our subscriptions are down. >> reporter: son publisher has lived in lewiston all her life. >> we did could not to pull the resources out, and everybody was tight. >> until last summer, when the sun journal, four other maine dailies and 16 weekly papers were sold to the not-for-profit national trust for local news. >> it was a huge relief. huge relief. the newsroom was static. they were so thankful. >> reporter: executive editor judy meyer introduced us around. a newsroom full of experienced journalists who knew exactly what needed to be done last october, when a gunman opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar here. >> almost everyone in this newsroom has bowled at that bowling alley. we know where it is. we know the people who are involved. and i think we approached it as, this is not a crime story, this is a crime against our community. >> a story the sun journal continues to work on five months later, long after the rest of us have left town. as a local daily, high school sports drive interest, as does restaurant use. >> and we still run birth notices in our papers. who does that a

. >> reporter: pressing on the only way they know how, lewiston strong. >> we wish justin and samantha the best of luck in reopening the bowling alley and pray that everyone in lewiston is healing and moving forward in peace. on that note i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. >>> earlier today a source with direct knowledge of the situation gave nbc news the biggest peek yet into what we should expect from trump's new york hush money trial next week, a potential witness list. let me back up. four days before election night in 2016 the "wall street journal" published this explosive story, national enquirer shielding donald trump from playboy model's affair allegation. it was what is known in the tabloid world as a catch and kill scheme. trump had an affair with a playboy model named karen mcdougal. when trump ran for president, mcdougal tried to sell that story to the press. so the national enquirer bought the story from mcdougal and then they killed it and this is no lon

. >> reverend lewiston, what is your reaction to trump demanding an apology from president biden for proclaiming today as transgender day of visibility, even though it always falls on march 31st. >> first of all, if trump was reading the papers or being a human being, he would know that is true. we don't change the date because it happens to fall on easter but i think it is a miracle that it happens to fall on easter. as the christian faith should be, and is, about welcoming all the people, even the ones we find strange. i am so proud that president biden said those words about transgender visibility, in our congregation, we wrapped our easter message into that, trans folks are children of god, just like i am and you are and absolutely beloved in the beautiful perfection. i am glad for easter and trans day of visibility showing up at the same time. it seems fitting to me. >> amen. ruth, why should we be alarmed by trump selling this maga bible, and exploiting religion in this manner. >> first of all, i am honored to be here, with you, and reverend lewiston on this special day. in ter

. >> in central maine, many a customer digs in to the lewiston sun journal. certain. >> its been tough. i mean, it's no secret. advertising, spending is down. our subscriptions are down. >> sun journal publisher has lived here all her life. >> we did as much as we possibly could not to pull the resources out of our newsrooms but everybody was tight. >> until last summer when the sun journal, four other main dailies and 16 other papers were sold to the national profit trust for local news. >> thank goodness. it was huge relief. huge relief. the newsroom was excited. opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar here. >> almost everyone at this newsroom has been at that bowling alley. we know the people who were involved. we approached it as this is not a crime story, this is a crime against the community. >> reporter: a story the sun journal continues to work on five months later, long after the left of us

come nearly six months after the state's deadliest mass shooting, where 18 people were murdered in lewistonn mandates background checks for private gun sales, requires waiting periods for gun purchases. it also criminalizes the sale of guns to people barred from having them. the biden administration issued a final rule today for public lands that puts conservation on par with drilling, mining and raising, allowing public lands to be leased for restoration in the same way that they lease land for oil extraction. it impacts about 10% of the landmass of the country. republicans in congress said they will attempt to appeal the rule. and a passing of notes. legendary guitarist and singer dickey betts has died. betts, there on the left, was a founding member of the allman brothers band. he wrote some of their biggest hits, and helped pioneer the southern rock sound. here he is in 1981, performing his best-known song, “ramblin' man.” >> ♪ and when it's time for leavin' i hope you'll understand that i was born a ramblin' man. ♪ ♪ stephanie: betts died at his home in florida, after battling cancer.

come nearly six months after the state's deadliest mass shooting, where 18 people were murdered in lewistonation mandates background checks for private gun sales, requires waiting periods for gun purchases. it also criminalizes the sale of guns to people barred from having them. the mass outage of 911 emergency services across several states last night has been blamed on a light pole being installed. the company that provides the service said a fiber line had been cut. emergency lines were down in south dakota, nebraska, nevada, and texas, though the outage in texas was unrelated to the cut fiber line. all call centers were up and running again within a few hours. on wall street, a lackluster day of trading, with markets ending mixed. the dow jones industrial average gained 22 points to close at 37,775. the nasdaq fell 81 points. the s&p 500 closed lower for a fifth straight day. reuters photographer mohammed say-lem has won the world press photo of the year. his image shows gaza resident inas abu maa-mar cradling the body of her five-year-old niece, saly. the young girl was killed, alongsi

i remember being on the ground and i believe it is alban lewiston, maine right before donald trump didhat jim comey reopen the investigation because the anthony wiener laptop, you have no idea where these are independent. let's go, no idea how the story is going to play out as bits of information come out. if a tape were released was there maybe something that was missing from the transcript? was there maybe a something that was read? and how it's considered when it's read, but maybe came across differently when it was said, those are all things that they're looking for in order to try to find out. and that is going to keep this in the news and they're going to keep it in the news because look, the truth is that joe biden's lowest approval rating occurred the month-and-a-half ago or so as a result, not impartially as a result because what came out from her investigation and let's be real, why are they want audio what happens to the audio once house republicans get hold of it? what are they doing? they're campaigning for reelection or campaigning for former president donald trump. heari

absolutely means one thing that this is a reflection of the son does on default of lewiston policy. so in the one hand they give is where the free hand, the is right, can do whatever they want to. that is really going to do whatever they want to do with infinity, but when some other people retaliated the media the condemned at the end. and this is actually an to create the kind of the anti wisdom symptoms in this part of the world. but also it gives them a munition in the are in this, i've seen this as a kind of the stand that i, that they need to respond to. i mean, i mean, it actually, it contributes it into the arena in the decision to respond. how do you think this is going to impact the world, gaza when the world's attention now and let's see, this is, this is one thing that, you know, everybody's speculating about this. i think that would be a little bit the kind of a level maybe. and so it would be a low intensity war far until this comes on in. and i don't think that is really to have an interest in getting it off for the since then these days. but also it all depends on how