National politics

Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.

The contract brings total Department of Homeland Security spending to at least $215 million on the proposed detention and processing site that has sparked massive controversy in Western Maryland.

Israel has struck southern Lebanon, Beirut and an oil storage facility in Tehran, while Iran hit a desalination plant in Bahrain as conflict continues in the Middle East.

The shuttered Saks stores include sites in Chevy, Chase, Md., Chicago and San Antonio.

Jean Davidson, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, is leaving to head the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin cited health and safety risks, including uncleanliness, limited medical access and overcrowding, in the facility at 31 Hopkins Plaza in downtown Baltimore.

COLUMN | Hours after President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, word spread that Annapolis would finally get $35 million crucial to its massive remake of City Dock.

Three of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s cabinet secretaries wrote they have “serious concerns that ICE is proceeding with this project in a secreteve and rushed manner” that will have negative effects on the state.

There was no sign of the war letting up on its seventh day, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S. air campaign against Iran would “surge dramatically.”

President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

The private owner of a planned ICE facility in Elkridge claims Howard County officials obstructed the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law and open detention sites.

Maryland is among some two dozen states that challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday.

Federal contract records and planning documents about a planned ICE facility in Elkridge offer a window into how immigration authorities are broadening their footprint in Maryland.

Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, demonstrating early support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.

The 2026 campaign kicked off Tuesday with high-profile primary elections in Texas, where Republican Sen. John Cornyn is heading toward a runoff vote against state attorney general Ken Paxton.

Israel and the U.S. intensified their bombardment of Iran’s security forces and other symbols of power Wednesday.

The United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what President Donald Trump suggested was just the start of a relentless campaign that could last more than a month.

A worldwide sell-off for stocks is slamming onto Wall Street Tuesday, and oil prices are leaping even higher as worries rise that the war with Iran is widening and may do more sustained damage to the global economy than feared.

Benchmark U.S. crude jumped 8.6% to $77.36 a barrel.

A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.