National politics

Carla Hayden, the nation’s first female and first Black Librarian of Congress, fired Thursday by Trump, "will remain a Maryland treasure," her fellow Maryland librarians say.

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

In an open letter to Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, hundreds of Naval Academy grads cited the decision to remove 381 books from the library catalogue as the latest sign that she isn’t fulfilling her duty to protect a diversity of ideas.

The move infuriated Congressional Democrats who accused Trump of attempting to shut down 'history, progress and learning'.

Firefighters, a widely-respected constituency that Trump has courted, say they are having a tough time lobbying against the administration’s cuts — or even getting administration officials to respond to them.

Maryland lawmakers and AmeriCorps partners are asking the community to step in to save their organizations and programs as the Trump administration moves to significantly cut the federal agency.

The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions.

As the Trump administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion, one of Baltimore's workforce development organizations loses funding.

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.

Local leaders and state officials are trying to help federal workers find stability and chart a new path forward in Maryland.

A coalition of 17 states, including Maryland, plus Washington, D.C., are challenging an executive order that Donald Trump signed on his first day in office.

The five children of Rachel Morin, the Bel Air woman slain on a hiking trail in 2023, have again filed a lawsuit against their grandmother and aunt.

The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.

Our current American state of affairs and citizens' relationship with the government is a reminder that we’ve always lived in separate countries.

Federal workers are finding a depressing and difficult job market as they navigate the Trump administration's policy changes.

In its bid to resist a court order to unfreeze grants, the Trump administration reveals a laser focus on eliminating environmental justice aid.

The body-camera footage shows a calm and friendly exchange between officers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Abrego Garcia

‘Wait to see what’s coming,’ Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, said Thursday.