Power is invisible, but its effects can be seen everywhere — especially in the health records of active duty military personnel.

By examining details of 1.5 million emergency room visits at U.S. military hospitals nationwide, researchers found that doctors invested significantly more resources in patients who outranked them than in patients ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Another 24 men and women joined more than 200 other plaintiffs who say Maryland Department of Juvenile Services staff sexually abused them while they were incarcerated in juvenile detention facilities as children.

A new complaint filed Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court by the New York law firm Levy Konigsberg and Maryland-based ...Read more

ATLANTA — U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, state Rep. Park Cannon and others arrested at the Georgia Capitol during a 2018 demonstration are calling for the state’s highest court to strike down the law under which they were accused of criminally disrupting government work.

Williams and more than a dozen others were arrested during a protest at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife Nadine, who’s a key player in the alleged bribery scheme he’s on trial for in Manhattan, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a statement from the senator.

The statement, which Menendez sent out Thursday, came as the powerful 70-year-old N.J. Democrat faces a Manhattan Federal Court ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A clash between police and pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Irvine now includes the mayors of Irvine and Newport Beach.

After his city's police department responded to a request for mutual aid at the Orange County campus Wednesday, Newport Beach Mayor Will O'Neill took umbrage with a social media post ...Read more

BALTIMORE — It’s a right of passage into Mike Locksley’s Maryland football program to participate in the ‘3 H’s’ meeting. Newcomers stand before teammates, coaches and staff to share about their hero, a highlight of their life and a hardship. It’s one of a few crucial Terps mental health touchpoints.

Head coach always goes first. ...Read more

ATLANTA — The grieving family of Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, killed by a Florida deputy earlier this month, clung tightly to each other on Thursday and called for justice the day before his funeral.

U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton is among those scheduled to speak at Fortson’s service at 11 a.m. Friday at New Birth ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Death Valley National Park visitor has stepped forward and taken responsibility for knocking over a 113-year-old salt tram tower last month, claiming it happened during a time of desperation and that there was no intent to harm the historic structure, park officials announced.

"We are grateful to the dozens of people who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the U.S. consumer protection agency that was created under President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to protect Americans from financial scams.

By a 7-2 vote, the justices rejected a constitutional claim brought by a coalition of payday lenders who had won before a panel of three ...Read more

A pod of killer whales attacked and sunk a yacht over the weekend between Spain and Morocco in the Strait of Gibraltar — and it's not the first time.

The couple on the yacht said they felt sudden blows to the hull and rudder before the boat started taking on water, according to reports. They alerted authorities and a nearby oil tanker took ...Read more

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime fixer-turned-foe, faced a contentious cross-examination Thursday as the former president’s legal team sought to undermine his credibility and motives as the historic hush money trial centered on an alleged payment to porn star Stormy Daniels nears its conclusion.

Defense lawyer Todd ...Read more

NEW YORK — A large group of Republican members of Congress showed up Thursday in a lower Manhattan court to show support for former President Donald Trump in his criminal trial for covering up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Led by Trump loyalists Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, nine GOP ...Read more

A pod of killer whales attacked and sunk a yacht over the weekend between Spain and Morocco in the Strait of Gibraltar — and it's not the first time.

The couple on the yacht said they felt sudden blows to the hull and rudder before the boat started taking on water, according to reports. They alerted authorities and a nearby oil tanker took ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed two gun-reform measures into law Wednesday that will tighten requirements on the storage of firearms in vehicles and bolster funding to investigate gun crimes in Colorado.

“If you’re going to be a gun owner, then we need to make sure we are responsible gun owners,” said Sen. Rhonda Fields, an Aurora ...Read more

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s injuries remain life-threatening even as his condition stabilized a day after he was shot, as a fuller picture emerged of a “lone wolf” assailant driven by political animus.

The first assassination attempt on a European leader in more than 20 years has sent shockwaves through one of the continent’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld the funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday, turning aside an argument that would have restricted Congress’ power to set up independent agencies.

The 7-2 decision found that Congress did not violate the Constitution when it set up the funding scheme for the CFPB, a ...Read more

An attorney for Sen. Bob Menendez used opening statements Wednesday to portray the senator as using the power of his position to represent the interests of his constituents and the United States — not taking corrupt actions.

Menendez, D-N.J., is on trial in New York for 16 criminal counts that include bribery, extortion and acting as a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson signed the state budget as well as other legislation Thursday that will expand the list of criminal charges that can be filed against 10- to 12-year-olds.

“This is probably one of the most controversial and hard issues that we have because, at the...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping put their countries' partnership on red-carpet display in Beijing on Thursday, aiming to project a unified alternative to the West as each faces pressure amid Moscow's war on Ukraine.

President Xi received Putin outside the Great Hall of the People while uniformed bands played, soldiers ...Read more