National politics

The governor enters 2025 in an unenviable position: He’s staring down a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit, has an ambitious public education plan to pay for and does not yet know what a second Donald Trump presidency will mean for the state.

Orioles owner David Rubenstein, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor-director Denzel Washington will be awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor Saturday in a White House ceremony.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Before Maryland’s freshman class in the U.S. House of Representatives could officially celebrate their first day, the majority party needed to settle on its leadership: Who would be speaker of the House?

Many colleagues view Raskin, a 62-year-old constitutional law scholar with a broad national following, as an intellectual, aggressive and articulate leader.

The LGBTQIA+ community anxiously awaits what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for their rights.

Stephen Miller heads America First Legal, which sent warning letters to numerous officials in Maryland jurisdictions it accused of “concealing, harboring or shielding” immigrants.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.C.

The U.S. and the world continue to benefit from Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as president and the humanitarian work he pursued after leaving office, University of Maryland Law professor Larry S. Gibson says.

Jimmy Carter’s policies and priorities as president set revitalization in motion in Baltimore and other cities that needed it, Abell Foundation President Robert Embry Jr. says.

White House staffers and others who interacted with President Jimmy Carter had the opportunity to gain valuable lessons in leadership and diplomacy, says University of Baltimore president and former Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke. Schmoke worked on the White House domestic staff in the Carter administration.

The Naval Academy has renamed a classroom building for the 39th president, who recently entered home hospice care. But why did it take so long to honor the only graduate to ever become president?

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, has died. He was 100 years old.

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

About 5,200 Marylanders are owed a total of more than $6.8 million in unpaid wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The bill was approved 366-34, and now goes to the Senate, for expected quick passage, which would avert a shutdown.

The Washington Commanders’ path to returning to the nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

Securing that money was a top priority of Maryland’s members of Congress as well as Gov. Wes Moore.

President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate.