National politics

Plans to relocate the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt can move forward after a federal judge, siding with Prince George’s County and the state of Maryland, blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to move the agency to an existing building in Washington.

Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely.

Actor Sonja Sohn rejects Trump’s claim of credit for Baltimore’s crime drop. In a social media video this weekend, she praised grassroots work, saying that’s why the city has made progress.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down on a New York City street.

Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who called it unnecessary and cruel.

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat. The operation involved a ruse in which journalists and some White House staffers believed they were on the same plane as the Republican president.

COLUMN | The prospect of Mardelva is the latest in a line of oft-repeated threats to secede from Maryland. They grow loudest when the Eastern Shore fails to get its way in Annapolis.

The Trump administration’s decision to rescind a key immigration protection status for Haitians has prompted fear among community members. Many immigrants who benefited from the status said that going back to an unstable Haiti could be extremely dangerous, if not fatal.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

A federal judge ruled Monday that construction may continue on a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Elkridge, dealing a blow to Howard County leaders who attempted to halt the controversial project.

District of Columbia residents and officials see President Donald Trump’s extended National Guard deployment as an attempt to restrict the heavily Democratic city’s autonomy.

COLUMN | This vote to have more flexibility in drawing congressional districts is not about spite or waving signs. It’s about our perilous ability to exist as full citizens.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

COLUMN | Oh, Andy. What is Maryland to do with you? To hear Republicans in Annapolis tell it, you’re the damsel in distress, a starlet in the clutches of a King Kong gerrymander unleashed by Democrats.

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must stop construction of the $400 million White House ballroom because Congress has not approved the project.

Body camera footage obtained by The Banner from the incident gives a small window into how the city’s officers respond to incidents involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and how little the Police Department can do.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home.

Six years after COVID-19 pandemic thrust the world into fear and uncertainty, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.