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The 2011 Winters Mill graduate hopes to buy a farm in Maryland someday.

After Reese grabbed an offensive rebound, Clark slapped her across the arm, knocking the ball away and Reese to the floor.

Following last-minute maneuvering, the shine’s back on the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in its first case stemming from the blitz of actions that have marked the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Mena will be aboard local long shot Pay Billy in the 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday.

Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.

Olympic gold medalist wrestler and Maryland native Kyle Snyder was arrested in a prostitution sting, according to police in Columbus.

Blanche replaces Carla Hayden, the longtime librarian whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from some conservatives that she was advancing a “woke” agenda.

U.S. and Chinese officials said they had called a 90-day truce in their trade war for more talks on resolving trade disputes.

In his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff, Leo said, “Never again war!” from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 people below.

Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland rallied by the governor’s residence on Friday, calling on Gov. Wes Moore to sign the legislation.

The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week, a federal prosecutor said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar at the facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark airport went black for 90 seconds at 3:55 a.m. Friday.

Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said in a statement Friday.

Robert Prevost, 69, had to overcome the taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

A federal judge expressed sympathy for thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military while legal challenges proceed.