National politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed news reports that the first female superintendent of the Naval Academy, Yvette Davids, has been reassigned.

In a letter sent Wednesday, Republican senators said the withheld money supported programs that had longstanding bipartisan support and were critical to local communities.

A new analysis by Maryland health officials finds a potential loss of $2.7 billion over time from the new law passed by Congress.

O’Rourke is holding events in Philadelphia and Richmond before his Baltimore visit and then heading to Austin and Milwaukee.

The Jordan McNair Student Athlete Heat Fatality Prevention Act requires colleges and high schools to adopt emergency heat illness protocols.

Van Hollen said he’d hoped his colleagues would have rejected the administration’s attempt to undo years of work by members of both parties.

Seth Jason, 64, repeatedly threatened to assault and kill Greene and her family during several calls to her district offices in between October 2023 and January 2025, according to his four-count indictment.

Chase Childers, a former minor league baseball player and ex-police officer, has died after rushing into the ocean to save swimmers in a rip current, according to police in South Carolina and a GoFundMe page for his family.

The House of Representatives is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

Protests and events against President Donald Trump’s controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid are planned Thursday at more than a dozen locations around Maryland.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday tried to poke holes in the human smuggling case the government is pursuing against him in Tennessee, while a federal judge said he won’t rule this week on freeing the Maryland man from jail, a decision that could precipitate his deportation.

A federal judge in Maryland could soon become the second to block President Donald Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship from taking effect nationwide, if an appeals court were to allow it.

Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants in the country.

Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are pushing up the cost of a range of goods, including furniture, clothing, and large appliances.

The Justice Department last week said no more files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case would be made public.

CFPB employees say they essentially spend the workday sitting on their hands, forbidden from doing any work by directive from the White House.

In this moment of everyone shouting at once all the time, would we be better off if we all just shut up for a day? Then I remember my right to ignore it all. What if we can’t refuse? That's the risk to free speech today.

Under President Donald Trump, ICE is arresting 76 immigrants per week in Maryland, up from 29 per week last year.

Two Democratic congressmen from Maryland joined the growing call for the Department of Justice to release files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.