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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote.

The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. scientist who helped lead the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response, is set to face off — again — with a Republican senator probing the origins of the coronavirus.

President Trump is expected to announce a $22 billion renovation of Washington Dulles International Airport that will end the use of the widely disliked “people movers,” the mobile lounges that have been used for decades to shuttle travelers to and from the main terminal.

The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation’s intelligence agencies, putting a permanent director in place weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay his nomination.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Measles have quadrupled in Maryland this year compared to last, with about 12 confirmed cases for 2026 so far, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

COLUMN | The White House warned that I should be on the lookout for “anti-white,” “illegal alien” and “transgender” activism while walking through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. I looked, but all I found was the real lesson of studying history.

Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a Buffalo, N.Y. courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him.

The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted.

COLUMN | The cyclosporiasis outbreak, probably caused by iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, has reminded me and others that science is good and shopping from local farms is great.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities.

The United States military said late Monday it was carrying out its 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iran in a push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires that has engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday, thanks to thunderstorms passing through the area.

Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the human body, killing tens of thousands of people a year.

President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he's long used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election.

United Airlines is trying to attract flyers with another luxurious perk: an empty middle seat.

The newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s bottom surface has noticeably faded since it was lined with a protective coating in a color President Donald Trump called “American flag blue” this spring.

Defending champion Argentina rallied to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday and reach the World Cup final.

On Dec. 1, the current collective bargaining agreement will expire, and a lockout is expected to ensue.