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Jean Davidson, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, is leaving to head the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.

From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large a celebration honoring him.

As the war with Iran rages on, drivers in Maryland and across the country are feeling pain at the gas pumps.

There was no sign of the war letting up on its seventh day, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S. air campaign against Iran would “surge dramatically.”

President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

Maryland is among some two dozen states that challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday.

Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, demonstrating early support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.

Anjali Sharma’s predicament is just one of thousands experienced by Americans in the war-torn region, leaving them largely trapped because of a lack of commercial flights home.

The 2026 campaign kicked off Tuesday with high-profile primary elections in Texas, where Republican Sen. John Cornyn is heading toward a runoff vote against state attorney general Ken Paxton.

Israel and the U.S. intensified their bombardment of Iran’s security forces and other symbols of power Wednesday.

Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war were identified Tuesday by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve from different states.

The United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what President Donald Trump suggested was just the start of a relentless campaign that could last more than a month.

A worldwide sell-off for stocks is slamming onto Wall Street Tuesday, and oil prices are leaping even higher as worries rise that the war with Iran is widening and may do more sustained damage to the global economy than feared.

Benchmark U.S. crude jumped 8.6% to $77.36 a barrel.

A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

The war in the Middle East spiraled further Monday as Israel and the United States pounded Iran in a campaign that U.S. President Donald Trump said would likely take several weeks.

Oil prices climbed, and stock markets slipped Monday as investors and households got the first chance to see what the war in the Middle East could mean for their finances.

More than 1,800 flights were canceled Sunday to airports across the Middle East, including those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Egypt, according to Cirium.

Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.