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As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

For months, the overcrowded, bleak conditions on the sixth floor of the George H. Fallon Federal Building have drawn attention from Maryland lawmakers, a federal judge and the state’s top prosecutor.

Four of its six crew members were killed after a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran crashed in western Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East.

COLUMN | Gov. Wes Moore launched the experiment in November, giving state employees a chatbot to speed up approval of benefits like food stamps. What happens, though, when your innovation partner gets banned by the federal government?

A gunman is dead and two people are hurt after a shooting at Old Dominion University on Thursday morning, the Virginia school said.

A Maryland federal judge on Thursday ordered a psychiatric evaluation to determine competency to stand trial for Ziz LaSota.

A man was taken into custody on Wednesday after driving his van into a security barrier outside the White House, authorities said.

Ohio State University is investigating after President Walter “Ted” Carter Jr. resigned abruptly over the weekend following the disclosure of “an inappropriate relationship.”

As the price of crude oil surpassed $110 a barrel Monday, reaching heights not seen since 2022, consumers were feeling the effects of the Iran war and its damage to worldwide energy production.

A review of public contracting records by The Banner reveals details about the private companies that are helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement turn a massive Washington County warehouse into a detention center.

The Justice Department touted a tentative settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Monday as a victory for consumers that would end an illegal monopoly.

Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died.

A Baltimore Ravens Hall of Famer reacted to the Trump administration’s social media post that intermixed football highlights with military strikes in the Middle East.

Oil prices spiked near $120 per barrel before falling back Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummeling financial markets.

Mojtaba Khamenei had long been considered a contender for Iran's supreme leader, even before an Israeli strike killed his father. U.S. President Donald Trump had called the possible selection of the younger Khamenei unacceptable.

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world.

Israel has struck southern Lebanon, Beirut and an oil storage facility in Tehran, while Iran hit a desalination plant in Bahrain as conflict continues in the Middle East.

The shuttered Saks stores include sites in Chevy, Chase, Md., Chicago and San Antonio.