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The U.S. military said Monday that two American-flagged merchant ships had successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz after it launched a new initiative to restore traffic.

It will be up to Golden Tempo, DeVaux added, how fit he looks upon returning to the training track at Keeneland, where her stable is based.

The usual post-Derby dilemma for trainers and owners is whether their horses are up for the two-week turnaround at Preakness. This year, the race is at Laurel Park on May 16 while the traditional Pimlico Race Course is rebuilt.

Amtrak is considering allowing people to store guns in lockboxes on most of its trains.

Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Golden Tempo — who was at the back of the back early — charged down the stretch to make history for DeVaux in the 1 1/8-mile race, winning at odds of 23-1.

The collapse of U.S.-based Spirit Airlines may mark the end of an era for budget travelers, leaving stranded passengers to navigate how to get home and secure refunds.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration was still weighing a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone.

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome, died in San Diego after being hospitalized for side effects from a recent cancer treatment.

After weeks of delay, the House of Representatives voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and sent the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

Salomon Serrano Esquivel was well aware of the immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump and often thought he might be next. But he never could have predicted what happened.

The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped combat racial discrimination in voting for over 50 years.

Isaiah Kirby, a 21-year-old Owings Mills native studying zoology at Michigan State University, was fatally shot by East Lansing Police Department officers.

King Charles III will embrace some of Washington’s most formal ceremonial trappings on Tuesday as he tries to emphasize a bond between the United Kingdom and the United States.

COLUMN | Two days after our 33rd wedding anniversary, Southwest Airlines decided that we should split up. We’d fallen prey to one of the dumber airline decisions in recent memory, annoying loyal flyers by charging more to sit together.

The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives was charged Monday with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump as federal authorities suggested an attack that disrupted one of Washington’s glitziest events had been planned for at least several weeks.

The man accused of shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner sent writings to his family, which includes a sister in Maryland, minutes before the shooting.

President Donald Trump was uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after a shooting incident outside the ballroom.

Airlines worldwide have begun canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices — but the disruption doesn’t end there.

HBO Max, “Harry Potter,” “Top Gun,” CBS and CNN may all be placed under the control of the upstart Paramount Skydance soon. That’s because shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery approved an $81 billion sale of the company on Thursday.