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Three members of the Zizians, a cultlike group linked to six deaths across the U.S., were in court in Maryland on Friday for a hearing ahead of their trial on trespassing, weapons and drug charges.

Column: Parts of Annapolis have been waiting for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to switch tactics, bringing raids like those seen in places such as Washington, D.C., Portland and Minneapolis. They were ready when things changed on Tuesday.

A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president. That’s virtually unchanged from March 2025, shortly after he took office for the second time.

John Harbaugh and the New York Giants are working on an agreement to make him the team’s head coach, two people with knowledge of the decision said early Thursday morning.

Many Verizon customers encountered a widespread outage on Wednesday, disrupting calling and other cellular services across the U.S.

FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of a leak investigation involving a Pentagon contractor accused of sharing classified information, the Justice Department said.

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than American control is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.

Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip “Dilbert” captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture has died. He was 68.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams.

A federal judge on Monday said she will hold a short hearing on procedures that police said allowed them to seize and look through Luigi Mangione’s backpack when he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.

The Golden Globes bill themselves as Hollywood’s booziest bash. This year, is anyone ready to party?

Lawmakers are pushing for a full investigation, policy changes, cuts to ICE funding and even impeachment of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.

The Washington National Opera announced Friday that it will move performances away from the Kennedy Center.

Luigi Mangione is due in federal court Friday for a pivotal hearing in his fight to bar the government from seeking the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

As anger spilled out onto streets over the fatal shooting in Minneapolis of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer, with the governor calling for people to remain calm.