National politics

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. scientist who helped lead the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response, is set to face off — again — with a Republican senator probing the origins of the coronavirus.

President Trump is expected to announce a $22 billion renovation of Washington Dulles International Airport that will end the use of the widely disliked “people movers,” the mobile lounges that have been used for decades to shuttle travelers to and from the main terminal.

The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation’s intelligence agencies, putting a permanent director in place weeks after President Donald Trump sought to delay his nomination.

The testimony comes one day after the U.S. Education and Justice departments alleged that Anne Arundel County’s school system violated federal student privacy law by withholding a student’s gender identity from their parents.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Measles have quadrupled in Maryland this year compared to last, with about 12 confirmed cases for 2026 so far, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

COLUMN | The White House warned that I should be on the lookout for “anti-white,” “illegal alien” and “transgender” activism while walking through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. I looked, but all I found was the real lesson of studying history.

For the first time in five years, federal engineers plan to restock Ocean City’s waterfront, a $27 million project that involves dredging hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand to line the tourist town’s eroding coastline.

Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a Buffalo, N.Y. courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him.

The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities.

The United States military said late Monday it was carrying out its 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iran in a push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing with other women at all levels. Something interesting happened: Many teams refused to listen.

COLUMN | This is another summer we will remember for a continuation of politics that makes you sick to your stomach. Still, it may be the first with cucumbers as a risky proposition. Did the president address our national exploding diarrhea? No, he had another kind of poo on his mind.

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires that has engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday, thanks to thunderstorms passing through the area.

“I am the only African American governor in the country right now, but that’s not a title that I’m proud of,” Moore said. “I don’t want to hold on to that title for very long.”

President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he's long used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election.

As President Trump prepares to give a primetime speech on Thursday, Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox is trying to distance himself from past challenges to the 2020 election.

The newly drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s bottom surface has noticeably faded since it was lined with a protective coating in a color President Donald Trump called “American flag blue” this spring.

An attorney for Smith sent Moore and his communications staff a letter on June 29 demanding that Moore retract a statement and apologize.