National politics

When Rep. Jamie Raskin said D.C. should become part of Maryland again, I had to ask. That’ll never happen, right? Then I learned about retrocession.

Millions of Vietnamese are born with severe developmental challenges linked to Agent Orange.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined attorneys general from 18 other states to sue the Trump administration.

University of Maryland faculty voted to join nine major universities that want to band together in a NATO-like agreement.

Patel made the announcement in a post on X and said his office believes Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents."

Thursday's statement was carefully worded and didn’t contain the strong language coming from some states that openly defied the Trump administration.

The Social Security Administration could lose thousands of employees under President Donald Trump's revived reclassification policy.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not the only Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador last month, according to court records.

The Trump administration has so far denied a unanimous U.S Supreme Court order to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return, and the president has called Chris Van Hollen a “fake” and a “grandstander” for confronting his administration’s sweeping deportation efforts with a congressional fact-finding mission.

A U.S. District judge issued an injunction that prohibits the Trump administration from withholding federal funding.

Robert Hur is one of the two lawyers defending Harvard University against the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts.

To avoid President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on imported cars, some manufacturers are stockpiling inventory at ports.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.

A federal judge has temporarily halted her order directing the government to explain what it’s done to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S.

To sell or not to sell? That is the question for Tesla owners who oppose CEO Elon Musk’s unprecedented role in the federal government but still love the company's electric vehicles.

The Supreme Court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections.

Some Montgomery County families want the right to opt kids out of reading inclusive storybooks.

Ryan Holiday, an author and podcaster, had planned to mention book bans — including the Naval Academy's own — during an ethics lecture.

Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s plight.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants to those sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders.