BALTIMORE -- The University of Maryland is putting students up in College Park hotels after mold was reported in some dormitories and several students said it has made them sick.

Mold was found "throughout Elkton Hall, as well as isolated reports in other residence halls, and the issue has been exacerbated by recent weather conditions," the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Former Tropical Storm Kirk weakened to a tropical wave Monday but has maintained a 50 percent chance of reforming over the next two days.

Kirk pushed westward in the eastern Atlantic as a tropical storm before weakening to a tropical depression on Sunday night. By Monday morning, it had lost its closed circulation.

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CHICAGO -- The infamous police dashboard camera video shows Laquan McDonald spin wildly at the first shots from Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke before collapsing to Pulaski Road a second and a half later.

Prosecutors have told jurors that Van Dyke continued firing for 12 seconds after the teen fell, emptying his gun while McDonald lay ...Read more

National parks are getting hotter and drier. What's the outlook for 2100?

WASHINGTON -- America's national parks are warming up and drying out faster than other U.S. landscapes, threatening iconic ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Joshua Tree in California to Denali in Alaska.

That's the conclusion of a new climate change study ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Circumstance, confusion and chaos have collided to ensure Thursday will be one of the most consequential -- and perhaps the most by a wide margin -- days of the tumultuous Trump presidency.

Washington has rarely seen the kind of spectacle ahead in just a few days, and the inevitable ramifications will trigger ripple waves that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democratic lawmakers are criticizing a new rule proposed by the Trump administration that would make it harder for immigrants who receive public benefits to obtain green cards.

The 447-page proposed rule, unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday, would expand the government's ability to deny a green card -- and ...Read more

UNITED NATIONS -- Cuba's handpicked President Miguel Diaz-Canel began his first appearance at the United Nations lauding "blood ties" between Cuba and Africa at a session dedicated to peace and to pay homage to the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.

"Cuba is honored to remember that it shared its struggles in the first line of combat ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- April Freeman, a Democrat who was running for retiring Rep. Tom Rooney's Florida seat, has died unexpectedly, according to media reports Monday.

Her husband, David Freeman, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that his wife appeared to have had a heart attack Sunday night.

While Freeman's name will remain on the 17th District ballot,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- North Dakota voters will have to show identification that includes a street address before they can cast a ballot in November, a federal court ruled on Monday.

While opponents had successfully sued to block the provision, a St. Louis-based U.S. appeals court put that lower court order on hold. In a 2-1 ruling, the majority ...Read more

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- An Iraqi captive held at Guantanamo and accused of commanding al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan after 9/11 failed to show up at a hearing Monday, stalling progress toward the war crimes trial following a health setback from his fifth spine surgery in less than a year.

The no-show presented a quandary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the senior Justice Department official supervising the Russia investigation, will meet Thursday with President Donald Trump, an announcement that stanched, at least for now, a flurry of reports that Rosenstein would be leaving his post.

Rosenstein headed to the White House early Monday "...Read more