Maryland Republican lawmakers are urging Democratic leaders to slow down emergency legislation that would end local cooperation agreements with federal immigration authorities, arguing the General Assembly is moving too quickly amid shifting national conditions and legal uncertainty.

The identical bills — House Bill 488 and Senate Bill 245 �...Read more

The United States and Iran each struck a positive tone about the start of diplomatic talks, though analysts remain skeptical that the engagement will be enough to head off U.S. airstrikes.

The timeline and terms of the negotiations remain unclear after an opening round of talks on Friday that President Donald Trump cast as “very good” and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Chancellor Kamar Samuels spent Tuesday defending mayoral control of New York City’s public schools‚ a system the mayor campaigned against but now largely supports.

During a closely watched City Council hearing, Samuels praised the system despite disagreement with some Mamdani political allies who remain...Read more

No one ever promised the grief that followed the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would go away. But no one predicted the never-ending frustration the surviving families would feel toward a legal system that sometimes seems determined to prolong their suffering.

Nearly eight years after a gunman murdered 17 students and ...Read more

U.S. regulators have refused to review Moderna Inc.’s novel mRNA flu vaccine, dealing a major blow to the company as it seeks more products beyond its COVID shot.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the company’s application, which was submitted in December, saying the studies conducted in support of the application didn’t ...Read more

NEW YORK — The death count in NYC amid the frigid conditions of the past few weeks jumped Tuesday with city officials acknowledging seven additional deaths, the news coming after the Mamdani administration came under fire for its response to the freezing weather at a Council oversight hearing.

The seven new deaths all occurred at private ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading to a conference of world leaders in Germany later this week as part of his ongoing effort to use the global stage to urge investment in California's climate-related initiatives and challenge President Trump's isolationist policies.

Newsom will appear at the Munich Security Conference to talk about trade and jobs and...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security would have begun deporting Haitians had its order terminating their legal protections from deportations not been halted by a federal judge, an assistant director for field operations told a federal court Tuesday.

But the agency also had no specific plans “to mobilize members of Immigration and Customs ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County, home to one of the nation’s largest foreign-born populations, will soon feel the effects of a new state policy requiring driver’s license tests to be given exclusively in English, eliminating multiple language options, a change that has left many residents navigating a limited transition period for preparation.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz predicted on Feb. 10 that the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota could end in a matter of days, citing recent conversations with top officials in the White House.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor said he spoke to both White House border official Tom Homan and President Donald Trump’s chief of ...Read more

In the first major break in the investigation into the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, FBI officials on Tuesday released surveillance footage showing a masked individual approaching the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she was abducted.

The images, recorded at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1, show someone wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack ...Read more

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency will release footage from body cameras that are being deployed to thousands of agents on the ground in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge.

Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, told members of the House Homeland Security Committee on Feb. 10 that he welcomed body cameras “all ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — State lawmakers this session are considering changing state laws that could affect what Floridians can say, write and read.

Legislators are weighing giving the governor broad powers to brand groups as “terrorist organizations” and expel college students who support them. They’re proposing forbidding the state from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House defended President Donald Trump’s decision to exclude two Democrats from a traditionally bipartisan dinner held for the nation’s governors later this month.

Wes Moore and Jared Polis, the governors of Maryland and Colorado, said they were disinvited from a White House dinner, part of the winter meeting of the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Public health experts warned Tuesday that $600 million in cuts to federal public health funding announced by the Trump administration would endanger one of California’s main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, leaving communities vulnerable to undetected disease spread.

The grant terminations affect funding for a number ...Read more

A panel of judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s challenge to a major power shift that stripped him of his appointments to state and local election boards.

Attorneys for Stein argued that the power shift — which transferred appointments to Republican State Auditor Dave ...Read more

A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — could take several more months to fully clean up after a major sewer line collapse, according to University of Maryland, College Park researchers, utility officials, and the Potomac ...Read more