Members of the Maryland Freedom Caucus and top Republican lawmakers are maintaining their firm opposition to any new taxes or increases as the General Assembly comes into its final stretch of budget negotiations.

“How do you feel about paying more taxes? You want to pay more income taxes? You want to pay more sales taxes? You want to pay more...Read more

Actress Aubrey Plaza was separated from her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, in the months before he died by suicide, authorities have confirmed.

The separation was revealed in a Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s report obtained by multiple outlets on Wednesday. According to People, the report says Baena had been separated from Plaza since ...Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu struck a defiant tone against the federal scrutiny that’s fallen on the Hub in recent weeks and months since President Donald Trump has taken office during her State of the City address.

Wu, in wide-ranging remarks delivered before a packed crowd at the MGM Music Hall, vowed that Boston would continue to protect ...Read more

Following through on intentions broadcast a year ago, a federal judge is putting control of California's troubled inmate mental health programs into the hands of an outsider: President Biden's former chief of prisons.

With inmate suicide rates at an all-time high, U.S. District Senior Judge Kimberly Mueller said her aim is to force changes in ...Read more

President Donald Trump's administration has paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania for having allowed transgender athlete Lia Thomas to compete on its women's swimming team, according to a senior White House official.

A White House account posted on X, formerly Twitter, a video clip of a Fox Business report ...Read more

The ex-director of the Trump Tower condo board in Chicago accused the owners and managers of the skyscraper of fraud in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, alleging they retaliated against him for speaking out about alleged financial malfeasance and had him arrested while he was taking a steam in the tower’s spa.

The complaint, which lists Trump...Read more

Thousands of University of California faculty and students gathered at UC campuses across the state Wednesday to condemn what they say is the Trump administration’s “assault on higher education” and to demand action from university and state leaders.

At Sproul Plaza on UC Berkeley’s campus, hundreds of faculty, staff and students ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in a “highly irregular and illegal campaign” against state green banks, has held up funds appropriated by Congress, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday.

Ellison filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday along with attorneys...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a controversial bill that would place a number of regulations on homeschooling as a few thousand opponents occupied the State Capitol building and decried the legislation as a prime example of government overreach.

Republicans, religious groups and families who’ve preferred to ...Read more

The effort to revive Georgia’s controversial “religious liberty” legislation stalled in a House committee Wednesday after two Republicans joined Democrats to oppose it.

The measure could come up for another vote, but the Republican pushback to a bill Democrats have long rejected was another reminder of how divisive the legislation remains...Read more

While the Trump Administration focuses on cracking down on illegal immigration, there is much that could be done to fix the “clogged and outdated” legal U.S. immigration system, and not doing so is costing the country in a big way, a new study shows.

According to the study, “Missing the Boat: Outdated Immigration Policies and Threats of ...Read more

Canada has floated doing major defense deals with Europe and improving the continent’s access to its critical minerals in response to President Donald Trump’s threats and his pullback from U.S. defense commitments.

Canada is seeking closer defense industry cooperation with Italy and the European Union as “a matter of urgency,” Elissa ...Read more

BOSTON — Pete Bouchard, the chief meteorologist at Boston's NBC10, has created quite a splash for another comment that’s landed flat on social media.

Bouchard, after the NASA astronauts who were stuck in space for 9 months finally returned to Earth, said the SpaceX splashdown had “strong hints of AI enhancement.”

The meteorologist ...Read more

ATLANTA — Two brothers and a roommate of Laken Riley’s killer were sentenced to prison Wednesday for possessing fake green cards, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Georgia.

Two of the Venezuelan nationals will be released on the time they have already served and be deported, according to prosecutors. The ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The University of Alaska Anchorage has removed its chief diversity officer and the University of Alaska Fairbanks closed a diversity center as the university moves to respond to a "changing federal landscape," according to University of Alaska President Pat Pitney.

Pitney, in a letter Monday to the "UA Community," said she...Read more

A sweeping bill that would expand reporting requirements related to sexual misconduct allegations against health care workers and impose fines for failure to report serious incidents gained initial approval from a House committee Wednesday.

The bill follows a Tribune investigation last year that exposed how Illinois health care systems failed ...Read more

A Laguna Niguel, California, couple who had lived in the country for 35 years was deported to Colombia on Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed.

Gladys Gonzalez, 55, and Nelson Gonzalez, 59, arrived in Colombia on Tuesday night, March 18, after spending weeks in custody.

Their daughter, Gabby Gonzalez, said the family is ...Read more

Support for Christian nationalist ideology differs among Hispanic Protestants and Catholics depending on how individuals identify themselves racially, according to a new study.

Christian nationalists believe Christian values should be fused with the nation’s identity, experts said. Half of all Americans believe the U.S. is a Christian nation ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Attorneys for defendant Bryan Kohberger want to reserve their ability to point to other possible suspects during his forthcoming murder trial, as part of assertions that their client was elsewhere at the time of the University of Idaho student homicides.

Pushing back against prosecutors, his attorneys said in their latest court...Read more