National politics

Federal immigration authorities sought an arrest warrant under seal for 18-year-old Jimy Samuel Godoy Alfaro for a charge of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding or interfering with a federal officer.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is allowing the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project for now.

Patrick Moran, an influential and longtime Maryland labor leader, was elected Thursday as president of AFSCME International, one of the largest labor unions in the country.

U.S. District Judge John deGravelles found former Baltimore ICE field director Vernon Liggins in contempt of court Wednesday for the arrest of a Baltimore-area resident despite a court order.

Gov. Wes Moore has spent at least a portion of one in every five days out of state since he took office in 2023 — and that pace of travel has accelerated as his national profile has grown, according to a Banner analysis.

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom, but they won’t resume their roles as working members of the royal family, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

Local elected officials, economists and others believe the potential relocation of the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt could “reinvent” the city and be a boon to the county’s economy.

Federal immigration officials who repeatedly locked up a Baltimore man contrary to a judge’s orders could now be held in contempt of court at a hearing scheduled for this week.

The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In a filing with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on late Monday, prosecutors say U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw erred when he found the human smuggling charges were an “abuse of prosecuting power.”

Plans to relocate the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt can move forward after a federal judge, siding with Prince George’s County and the state of Maryland, blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to move the agency to an existing building in Washington.

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely.

Actor Sonja Sohn rejects Trump’s claim of credit for Baltimore’s crime drop. In a social media video this weekend, she praised grassroots work, saying that’s why the city has made progress.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down on a New York City street.

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who called it unnecessary and cruel.

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat. The operation involved a ruse in which journalists and some White House staffers believed they were on the same plane as the Republican president.

The Trump administration’s decision to rescind a key immigration protection status for Haitians has prompted fear among community members. Many immigrants who benefited from the status said that going back to an unstable Haiti could be extremely dangerous, if not fatal.

COLUMN | The prospect of Mardelva is the latest in a line of oft-repeated threats to secede from Maryland. They grow loudest when the Eastern Shore fails to get its way in Annapolis.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

A federal judge ruled Monday that construction may continue on a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Elkridge, dealing a blow to Howard County leaders who attempted to halt the controversial project.