WASHINGTON — A couple hundred people carrying decorated umbrellas walked from the former Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to the U.S. Capitol lawn Saturday for a No Kings get-out-the-vote event in the nation’s capital. No Kings, a coalition that has drawn millions of Americans to protests three times since the beginning of President Donald […]

BELTSVILLE, Md. — The sound of car honks filled the air Saturday morning on Powder Mill Road as drivers voiced support for the protesters who lined the road under rain threatening skies to participate in the nation’s fourth No Kings protest. More than 100 community members filtered through the protest organized by Beltsville United, braving […]

David Schuhlein will leave his role with the Office of the Senate President after five years of managing and coordinating the wide-ranging communication needs for Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City). Ferguson said he was “deeply grateful” for Schuhlein’s work as director of communications in a statement announcing his departure, along with other staff changes. […]

The Trump administration has officially filed a request to reconsider the construction permit it issued to an offshore wind project proposed off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland.

WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected Status after Russia invaded their country in 2022, and for Sudanese nationals, […]

An NCAA survey of sports betting-related abuse of college athletes this year showed that the most-harassed college athletes play men’s basketball, with 46% of those players who took part in the survey saying they had been targeted by bettors, up from 36% last year.

WASHINGTON —Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog. Top Republican and Democratic senators have unveiled a 417-page bill to overhaul the approval process, a pathway for what’s known as “permitting reform.” A debate is likely when lawmakers return for their lame-duck session […]

The military is searching protected medical records to find transgender troops who have tried to continue serving amid the Trump administration’s ban on transgender Americans in uniform, multiple sources tell Federal News Network.

A study due Dec. 1 could address whether fossil fuel companies must pay for the effects of climate change, but the state must proceed cautiously, writes Mary D. Kane, who says that policy's effectiveness, and its cost to residents and businesses, must be front of mind.

The board overseeing the state’s Blueprint education reform plan wants to pause expert review teams visiting schools through fiscal year 2029, and instead allocate funding toward coaching teachers. That decision was the only recommendation that came out of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Accountability and Implementation Board meeting Thursday. It was the seven-member board’s first […]

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) is asking state officials to take a closer look at sexual assault policies on college campuses in the state.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a […]

Maryland is one of a dozen state to approve a law in recent months to ease the way for homeowners to install small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch and plugged into a standard wall outlet to generate power. But there are still hurdles.

Educating thousands of college athletes to the risks posed by irate gamblers is a top priority for the NCAA, with lectures, training and a website and video directing players to mental health assistance. But getting athletes to buy in can also be an uphill battle.

Immigrant arrests soared this summer to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office, driven largely by a surge in federal-local cooperation under 287(g) agreements -- at the same time that Maryland prohibited the agreements.

WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to encourage early voting in […]

Gov. Wes Moore offered his “public and loud” support for proposed legislation that would allow the state to more quickly reduce the price of some expensive drugs for non-Medicare recipients by piggybacking on the federally negotiated price limits under Medicare. And at a press conference Wednesday announcing the legislation, he promised to sign the bill, […]

A double-sided monument sharing quotes and photos of civil rights activist Malcolm X was unveiled Wednesday at the Michael E. Busch Annapolis Library. More than 100 people came for the unveiling and to hear from various federal, state and local officials. Malcolm X, who died at the age of 39 in 1965, had no direct […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding California not count ballots from voters it says are suspected noncitizens, a move by the Trump administration to apply last-minute pressure as voting begins in the midterm elections. The Justice Department on Tuesday gave California election officials 48 hours to remove voters on a list contained on a […]

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients beginning on Dec. 31. Some individuals receive both types of […]

The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records in a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, internal reports show, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups.

Workers don't truly have a seat at the table if they don't have an exit from the room, writes Tim Wright, and public sector workers in Maryland don't have that exit because they don't have the right to strike. That needs to change if we value their work, he says,

The electricity grid operator for a broad swath of the mid-Atlantic and Midwest warned this week that warm weather and maintenance outages could push the system close to its limits. PJM Interconnection alerted power plant owners and electric utilities Monday of the need to take steps to avoid rolling blackouts as the demand for power […]

As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an even larger proportion of physicians in many […]

The Chesapeake Bay earned a C+ on the annual report card that calculates improvements or losses in key indicators of health and conditions in the estuary and surrounding areas. This is the highest the Bay has ever scored since the record-keeping began in 2006. At the announcement in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Tuesday, leaders said the […]

States have made several efforts to curb gambling-related harassment of college athletes, from banning all college prop bets to restricting them to certain areas to banning abusive gamblers, but one state gaming official doubts the work "will ever be done.

National press freedom groups are condemning a practice used by Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) administration in response to inquiries from Sinclair and Baltimore Sun journalists.

Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states for their voters’ information and then, according to court […]

Gov. Wes Moore issued a directive Tuesday for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services to immediately implement a pilot program for youth-involved car thefts in Baltimore City and Montgomery County, areas that have had an increase in motor vehicle thefts in the past year. Moore’s directive, which will remain in effect until further notice, comes […]

Harassment of college athletes is one reason 15 states with legalized sports gambling, including Maryland, ban wagers on individual college players. But a loophole in how fantasy sports are regulated means those restrictions don't always apply.

He's outnumbered in voter registration, outraised in campaign funds and is in a low-key race against an incumbent with decades of name recognition, but GOP attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge still sees a path to victory in his bid to unseat Anthony Brown (D).

Maryland farmers can use red-dyed diesel in their on-rad trucks for the first time after an order from Gov. Wes Moore (D).

The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets […]

In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country.

As legalized sports betting has grown, so have bets on individual player performance rather than final scores. "Prop bets" have surged especially in college sports, shifting the focus to individual players who are increasingly targets for abuse by aggrieved bettors.

Schools are rightly working to fix chronic absenteeism, but much of the focus is on higher grades and ignores kindergarten, the grade with the most absences before high school. Getting those kids in school deserves at least as much focus, writes Kalman Hettleman.

A recent court ruling may have saved states from "potentially ruinous financial penalties" related to changes in SNAP rules, but advocates worry that thousands of Maryland families may still lose coverage as they try to navigate the changes.

The Transportation Security Administration has scrapped the Gold+ concept for privatizing some security operations, but is still exploring how to expand privatized airport screening, agency leaders said recently.

Household water bills rose an average of 62% from 2015 to 2025, faster than the inflation rate and more than twice the rise in grocery prices, a new analysis shows. It rose 19% faster than household incomes on average -- but twice as fast as incomes in Maryland.

With Maryland’s advance voter registration deadline approaching Tuesday, student organizations on college campuses across the state are working to get more young people registered and prepared to cast their ballots.

When I opened an independent family medicine practice, I believed I was creating the kind of care patients say they want: A physician who knows them, listens and has enough time to think. Instead, I learned why so many primary care doctors are leaving. The problem is not that physicians have stopped caring. It is […]

Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday night in Florida, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across a large the Southeast and causing at least four deaths. Remnants of the storm were expected to bring heavy rains to Maryland on Sunday.

State officials are taking another close look at how Maryland’s nonprofit hospitals store billions of dollars in “captive insurance” companies domiciled in the Cayman Islands to determine if those funds should be subject to state taxes.

Maryland law has very specific rules for removing books from school library shelves, but that doesn't always stop a determined local school board, writes Sonia Kumar, which is why she says the fight against book banning begins with voting for our school boards.

The signs, mailers and texts promise cash, quick sales and a seamless way to unload unwanted homes. But advocates say the business of buying homes for cash can confuse vulnerable homeowners and rob them of equity. And many states are cracking down.

Prediction markets have emerged as a flashpoint in state and federal relations, as a host of states, including Maryland, struggle with the Trump administration over who regulates the platforms and whether state laws restricting gambling on elections apply to them.

Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism.

The annual Maryland heat season ended with record-breaking heat-related illnesses and deaths: The 61 fatalities shattered the 2012 record of 42 deaths, and 1,657 emergency calls topped last year's 1,634, the previous record. Health experts point to climate change.

A growing number of voters are taking their anger about affordability to the polls this midterm election and blaming President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a culprit for rising expenses, polls show. In Maryland, tariffs cost the average households another $2,732.

A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a data center building boom is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers, leaving businesses scrambling for plumbers, electricians, carpenters and others in short supply.