BALTIMORE — With $2 billion in budget cuts already on the table, Maryland officials are likely to make hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional trims to state programs and services because of impacts of President Donald Trump’s actions in the White House, state Senate President Bill Ferguson said Friday.

Cuts to disabilities ...Read more

CHICAGO — For more than two years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended when a train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals.

Vice President JD Vance, a former Ohio U.S. senator, visited the East Palestine accident site this ...Read more

Israel has identified an airport and seaport as potential departure points for Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, according to a draft plan presented to Defense Minister Israel Katz on how to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial proposal.

Preliminary ideas were put to Katz at a military briefing on Thursday, said an Israeli...Read more

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates.

In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since an estimated 1 in 5 people with the disease end up in the hospital, the two cases suggested a larger outbreak.

As of Feb. 7, there were nine confirmed and ...Read more

More than 18,000 Californians have been born since President Donald Trump signed his executive order to end birthright citizenship last month — among them, about 9,000 children of immigrants.

Yet, when the American Civil Liberties Union sued to stop the Jan. 20 order, it didn't file in San Francisco, where its lawyers are based and where half...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX was set to send up the 13th launch from the Space Coast this year on Friday afternoon, but has retargeted efforts to Saturday.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 Starlink satellites is now aiming for liftoff at 1:23 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Thousands of American USAID workers were put on forced leave Friday as President Trump plows ahead with plans to effectively kill the nation’s main foreign aid agency.

Fewer than 300 officials at the venerable agency’s Washington, D.C. headquarters were told to keep working while the rest of the nearly 10,000 staffers have ...Read more

BOSTON — Even though it’s the heart of winter, sharks are still in our frigid waters.

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.

Scientists are still trying to figure out what caused the fish’...Read more

When state Sen. Colton Moore made his return to the House chamber after he was arrested for attempting to force his way in, he was greeted by a small crowd of supporters, including a recently pardoned Jan. 6 defendant with a long criminal record.

William Frederick Beals II was arrested in August 2023 and charged with multiple felony and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stricter regulations for converted housing are going into effect in Sacramento County.

The Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance Jan. 28 which updated the region’s housing code for converted housing.

Converted housing is when real estate developers repurpose commercial buildings, like hotels, into housing, said ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Residents in the Park Hill School District will be voting on two measures this spring that could raise their tax rate in order to boost teacher pay and improve facilities and buildings in the district.

“For the past 23 years, we have been passing no tax increase bonds to pay for all of the newest facilities that we have,�...Read more

A plane carrying 10 people that went missing in rural Alaska on Thursday during bad weather looks set to be the third deadly aviation disaster in the U.S. over a span of just two weeks.

The Bering Air flight was reported missing at about 4 p.m. local time while en route from Unalakleet to Nome with nine passengers and a pilot on board, Alaska�...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – After successfully orchestrating one budget veto override, Florida House Speaker Danny Perez has set up committees to review other items that Gov. Ron DeSantis cut last year, including spending for the arts, criminal justice and healthcare.

Perez assigned House members to four workgroups that are scheduled to begin ...Read more

BALTIMORE — For most of her life, Erica Miller suffered from a medical condition she didn’t know she had.

When she finally got a diagnosis and treatment, the cost of her medication varied wildly month-to-month from as low as $45 to as high as $600 — even with insurance. She couldn’t afford the care she needed.

Maryland lawmakers want ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jurors in the landmark public corruption trial of Michael Madigan are continuing their deliberations Friday, the eighth day of discussions in the marathon case.

Deliberations began Jan. 29 and as of Thursday evening had lasted for about 44 hours. Hanging in the balance is the fate of Madigan, formerly the most powerful person in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet will look much different from the traditional slate of business executives and Bush-era officials who served in the last Republican administration.

Trump’s picks to head executive branch agencies reflect his populist approach to power, as nominees like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have...Read more