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Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an emergency and requested that President Donald Trump provide federal resources to help the city fight a sewage system leak that dumped 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River in its early stages.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore called Jackson a “champion for the dignity of the working people” and a trailblazer in the civil rights movement who led with love and turned “protest into progress.”

Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care. His daughter said he died at home with family.

He had been acting for some 20 years when “The Godfather,” released in 1972, established him as one of the most in-demand performers of Hollywood. He grew up in Annapolis and San Diego.

More than 5 million Americans were in default on their federal student loans as of September as millions are behind on loan payments and at risk of default this year.

Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are made.

Seven members of the group known as Zizians are jailed in three states, all awaiting trial, nearly a year after the killing of a U.S. border agent.

As hundreds of federal and local agents search the Arizona desert nearly two weeks after Nancy Guthrie vanished, families of other missing people are reminded how elusive answers can be.

The pardons were announced by White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson. Ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon were granted the clemency.

James Van Der Beek, the "Dawson's Creek" actor who became a heartthrob at the turn of the millennium, has died at 48.

Chicago Sky star forward Angel Reese is returning to Unrivaled for the remainder of the 3-on-3 women’s basketball league’s season.

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

U.S. figure skater Maxim Naumov carried the memory of his late parents with him to the Olympics on Tuesday night, delivering an emotional, heartfelt short program at the Milan Cortina Games.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie released the first surveillance images Tuesday showing a masked person on her porch the night she went missing.

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.

The FBI is not aware of ongoing communication between Savannah Guthrie’s family and any suspected kidnappers.

Bad Bunny’s halftime show at Super Bowl LX featured a whole lot of pride in Puerto Rican culture and music — and gave one University of Maryland professor a lot of material for his coursework.

Sam Darnold threw a touchdown pass to AJ Barner, Kenneth Walker III ran for 135 yards and Jason Myers made all five of his field-goal tries.

A judge scheduled his state murder trial to begin June 8, three months before jury selection in his federal case.