National politics

Bisignano has served as chairman of Fiserv, a payments and financial services tech firm since 2020.

It’s 1:29 a.m. on March 26, 2025. An airliner collides with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a year after the container ship Dali knocked down the Key Bridge. What happens next in this imaginary disaster might be far different from the response to the real catastrophe. The reason? The occupant of the White House.

Failing to attract the attention of Republican Congressman Andy Harris, hundreds of people flocked to a middle school gymnasium on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to hear from a willing Democratic stand-in — U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin.

Maryland kids underperformed on state math tests. Banner subscribers struggled, too.

A crowd of nearly 500 people filled the auditorium at Woodlawn High School Thursday night for a raucous town hall with Democratic lawmakers on the future of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar who was detained by the Trump Administration and accused of spreading Hamas propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses.

The president conflated an Algebra I test with “basic mathematics.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Wednesday’s announcement signaled that the leadership change came down to Amtrak maintaining support from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Thousands of federal workers call Maryland home. Many of them also work in offices across the state.

The sheriffs in Carroll, Garrett and Washington counties agreed to start a “Warrant Service Officer” program in which ICE will train local deputies to serve and execute administrative warrants for people in their jails believed to be in the country without authorization.

The lawsuit filed by attorneys for USAID employees and contractors singled out Elon Musk as a defendant.

In the sweeping request, the Democrats seek four main types of information about the authority involved with DOGE’s activity.

A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around deportation flights wasn't binding because it was made verbally.

The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate.

Monday was Trump's first time at the marquee arts institution since he began remaking it at the start of his second term in office.

Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”

El Salvador already agreed this week to take up to 300 migrants that the Trump administration designated as gang members.

I wrote about Andy Harris’ congressional district art contest two weeks ago, and the Republican from Cambridge hated it so much he wants me fired. I guess it pays not to be a federal worker in Andy’s world.

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died. He was 90.