As the biotech world flocks to San Diego today for the BIO International Convention, the Department of Health and Human Services has provided plenty of conversation fodder with the announcement of | A...

Critics have said Greenspan’s light regulatory touch for banks may have helped bring about the Great Recession.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery. Leo’s own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners.

Memo alleges the watchdog office “can and will be used” to reach “parties with interests adverse to the city.”

State-level processes for nominating tracts for opportunity zone designation are open. Here is how to get involved.

He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

“Although they’ve been defunded by the government, we have decided we are not going to let that student organization fail to have programming,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

Le cas du massothérapeute Yvon Poirier, qui a agressé quatre clientes, fait mal à la profession, qui tente tant bien que mal de protéger sa clientèle.

$20 million conservation deal protects wolf, moose and brook trout habitat while opening the land to hunting, fishing, hiking and off-road recreation.

In a letter to President Donald Trump, a group of biotech executives recommended former cancer regulator Richard Pazdur to lead the agency after the departure of Marty Makary.

Responding to proposed legislation announced by Brandon Scott, Baltimore’s Inspector General says it would “eviscerate the independence” that voters overwhelmingly supported in two charter amendments.

The judge’s decision undercuts the administration’s broader efforts to limit the inspector general’s access to city records.

In an amended complaint, IG Isabel Mercedes Cumming asks how her office can root out fraud and waste if it cannot access city records.

The University of Missouri defended its decision to withhold funding from the Legion of Black Collegians as necessary to comply with federal regulations.

On Monday night, students packed every seat in the Schlundt Hall auditorium and lined the walls. More than a thousand watched on a livestream. They’ve toppled a Mizzou president before. They can do it...

The council also lays out proposed amendments to Baltimore’s charter that would end the practice of awarding contracts to the lowest bidder and allow lawmakers to “create discrete funds to benefit specific programs.”

Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their…

Asked why Mayor Brandon Scott has curtailed the watchdog’s powers, he says, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. My hope is that the fire is not someone in the mayor’s office pulling strings in an impr...

The comedian made several shock confessions about her real estate blunder on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

A new report found high lead levels in both synthetic and natural braiding hair. It’s unclear how toxic these products are—but it shouldn’t be so hard to get basic information about our health.

The FDA lost about 20% of its workforce after Trump took office last year. Now it wants to shrink approvals from as long as 29 months to as low as six.

On Monday, March 9, Deborah Tolson, a 75-year-old math interventionist, was found dead inside a Baltimore elementary school. She had worked at the school district for over two decades.

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The Scott administration’s new restrictions on OIG access to documents “would have limited this investigation,” Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming points out.

A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.

SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

Richard Pazdur had spent 26 years at the FDA before stepping down last year due to disagreements with Commissioner Marty Makary about lowering the number of clinical trials required for a new drug app...

Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, an update on the Beaumont Hospital case that we have blogged on twice before. See this blog entry.

Most non-ICE, non-CBP employees are now facing potentially delayed paychecks.

The Health and Human Services secretary told podcaster Theo Von that DOGE should have done its job differently when it came to job cuts at HHS.

Richard Pazdur, a longtime regulator, said politics risks outweighing science at the agency.

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The IG Advisory Board approves the hiring of outside legal counsel. Cumming reveals her fight with the Scott administration centers on her investigation of MONSE, the mayor’s violence prevention progr...

Friday’s ruling will only make it more difficult for all state and local Inspector Generals to investigate corruption. This impacts Montgomery, Baltimore City, Howard and Baltimore Counties.

Novo is asking the court to permanently ban Hims from selling compounded versions of its drugs that infringe patents, and is seeking to recover damages.

The administration’s latest assault on the city’s corruption watchdog doesn’t hold up to legal scrutiny and raises a harsh question: what are they hiding? [OP-ED]

A new crop of young homeowners who are disproportionately Black single women are helping the economic transformation in Baltimore City.

Without access to IT system data and financial records, the Office of the Inspector General cannot effectively identify and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in city government, the board says.

She said in an interview with NPR that mention of her ex-husband in the Epstein files are difficult because it "brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage."

One person taken into custody after a mass shooting in Clinton leaves six injured, including a child Six people – including a child – were shot during a carnival parade in Louisiana on Saturday, leading authorities to take one person into custody, according to multiple reports. The mass shooting occurred near a courthouse in Clinton, Louisiana, during the town’s “Mardi Gras in the Country” event, local news outlet WBRZ reported. The local sheriff told the local news outlet that the parade was immediately shut down. Continue reading...

Chasen, 39, of Guilford, agreed on July 30 to voluntarily proceed with Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy.

Chasen, 39, testified for about two hours Thursday in the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore during a hearing in his namesake real estate company's bankruptcy case.

Neither Chasen Construction LLC nor its namesake founder, Brandon Chasen, responded to the legal action.