National politics

COLUMN | If President Donald Trump hadn’t chosen to skip on speaking at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony on Friday, he probably would have tried to land a witty remark. They all do. From FDR to Biden, they sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. They always get a laugh.

The Trump administration announced Monday the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department, an arrangement that Democrats and government watchdogs derided as “corrupt” and unconstitutional.

Health authorities say the current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare variant of the Ebola disease that has no approved therapeutics or vaccines.

President Donald Trump’s trip to China was unexpectedly dominated by discussions about Taiwan and the notion that Washington and Beijing could adopt a new framework for managing their complicated relationship.

A veteran NBC News correspondent helped rescue a teenager from a burning car after a high-speed crash on the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County.

A federal judge seems prepared to strike down Howard County’s emergency legislation banning private detention centers after a challenge by the developer converting an old office building for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, bringing new leadership to the world’s most powerful central bank at a fraught moment for the global economy.

Marty Makary, a former Johns Hopkins surgeon, is resigning as President Donald Trump’s head of the Food and Drug Administration.

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal, which officials said included some nuclear concessions. Trump also proposed suspending the federal gas tax to help with higher fuel prices caused by the war.

COLUMN | In Maryland’s biggest primary, almost anything seems possible just 32 days from the start of early voting. A look at how candidates are trying to break out of a crowd of Democrats.

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.

Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, transformed the news business by launching CNN and introducing the 24-hour cable news cycle.

“The reality is that winning this fight would require resources that this campaign simply doesn’t have,” Williams wrote on Instagram.

The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation.

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.

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

Amid a rapidly changing legal landscape that is pushing immigration attorneys to their brink, these Baltimore law students aren’t deterred.

Thousands of protesters across Maryland took to the streets for May Day, with rallies and marches from Baltimore to Annapolis calling for workers’ rights, lower costs and broader economic reforms.

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