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The escalation of federal law enforcement follows similar deployments in other parts of the country.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk.

The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport.

District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw said in a 16-page memorandum opinion that there was a “realistic likelihood of vindictiveness” behind the United States government’s decision to prosecute Abrego Garcia.

A federal appeals court in Boston ruled that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily.

A California resident who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to over eight years in prison by a federal judge.

Iowa’s largest school district said they filed a lawsuit Friday against the consulting company it hired to identify superintendent candidates, alleging it did not properly vet Ian Roberts.

The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants that supported hundreds of clean energy projects in 16 states, all of which voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.

The Navy-Air Force football game will go on as planned in Annapolis on Saturday, but that doesn’t mean the athletic departments at the service academies are unaffected by the government shutdown.

A U.S. immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a proxy for the partisan power struggle over immigration policy.

Ian Roberts, who resigned this week as Des Moines’ superintendent of schools, claimed in his 2023 application that he received a doctorate in urban educational leadership from Morgan State University in 2007, according to documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records request.

Maryland Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks called on the federal government to halt efforts to “whitewash American History” at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia.

Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain heat-and-eat pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s because they may be contaminated with listeria bacteria previously linked to a deadly outbreak.

Former Superintendent Ian Roberts, who worked with the Baltimore City Public Schools for years, had been under the impression from a prior attorney that his immigration case was “resolved successfully,” said attorney Alfredo Parrish.

Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay area could see some minor coastal flooding with the possibility of some moderate flooding in the bay area caused by the hurricanes.

President Donald Trump joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday in declaring an end to “woke” culture before an unusual gathering of hundreds of top U.S. military officials who were abruptly summoned to Virginia from around the world.

Neither side is showing any signs of budging, with the House not even expected to be in session before a shutdown has begun.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in the national fight over immigration enforcement, was moved from a Virginia detention center to one in rural Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to handle “domestic terrorists”.

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison.