BALTIMORE — After erroneous ballots were mailed to Maryland residents earlier this year, Tuesday’s primary election was not just a referendum on candidates, but on how to vote as well.

At Bel Air High School, Michael Peters said people should vote in person, and mail-in ballots should only be sent to those who are unable to come to the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing the dismissal of criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant from Maryland who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year.

In a notice filed Monday, U.S. Attorney Braden Boucek informed the court that the Justice Department would formally appeal a federal judge’s ...Read more

DENVER — Disgraced former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods pleaded guilty to four felonies Tuesday, closing a chapter in a years-long DNA testing scandal that continues to reverberate through the state’s criminal justice system.

The 65-year-old former CBI analyst will be sentenced to between 8 and 16 years...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top Democratic appropriators are calling on the Government Accountability Office to probe the Trump administration’s release of nearly $400 million of taxpayer funds for a White House East Wing modernization project that includes a ballroom.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who is the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With Bill Pulte just days into his job acting director of national intelligence, senators on both sides of the aisle are already expressing concern about his performance.

Pulte began Friday, after weeks of criticism over his appointment. On Monday, he reportedly began firing intelligence officials and staff at the DNI en masse, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is suing Mayor Karen Bass personally, alleging that, while campaigning for reelection, Bass defamed her, damaging Crowley’s reputation by blaming her for the catastrophic Palisades fire response.

Crowley sued the city in February, alleging Bass “orchestrated a campaign of ...Read more

Areas around the South Coast of Massachusetts were hit Monday night into Tuesday with flooding rain, though drought conditions persist across the state.

“The Mashpee Rotary was flooded and not passable, and the Newport area and Fall River, same thing – some flooded roads, roads closed in East Sandwich, Wellfleet, Truro,” said National ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With a fire burning at a Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse for a seventh straight day, scrutiny is growing over the operator of the massive facility and what sparked the blaze that has spewed bad air across the region.

State regulators have launched an investigation into the incident and some local officials have called it a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Bill Gates told U.S. lawmakers he believed Jeffrey Epstein may have been considering blackmailing him, according to transcripts released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.

In closed-door testimony June 10, Gates disputed details that Epstein recorded in emails to himself regarding the Microsoft co-founder’s extramarital ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Sunnyvale School District, which serves nearly 6,000 students, was sued Monday by two Christian parents who claim the district failed to allow them to opt their elementary-age children out of LGBTQ+ instruction they say conflicts with their faith — the latest case to put Bay Area schools at the forefront of a national ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Trump administration has singled out two western North Carolina school districts as part of a nationwide push during Pride Month targeting schools over their bathroom policies for transgender students.

Buncombe County and Cabarrus County are among 13 school districts across the country in June that have had federal Title ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Prairieland Detention Center domestic terrorism case will be appealed, promised families and friends of eight defendants who were sentenced Tuesday morning. They also warned that a dangerous precedent has been set.

The eight defendants, described by federal prosecutors as antifa operatives, were convicted after three ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office announced criminal fraud charges against seven Medicaid providers on Tuesday, including a former Roseville schools employee who allegedly billed for personal care services for two years while living in Kansas.

The state fraud charges come from investigations by the attorney...Read more

MACUNGIE, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s speech on manufacturing in a key Pennsylvania swing district repeatedly veered into other topics and musings about elections in other states, like Maine and California.

It took the president nearly an hour to even reference by name GOP U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, the vulnerable incumbent whose district...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Tuesday to adopt a House-approved war powers resolution calling for a halt to any additional military action against Iran that Congress has not authorized.

The Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a concurrent resolution by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., that the House had adopted by a 215-208 margin earlier this month...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly one year after the Esparto fireworks explosion killed seven workers, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday formally rejected the central conclusions of a civil grand jury report that faulted county officials for allowing the illegal operation to flourish.

The board unanimously adopted the county’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — After six months in an ICE facility in Pennsylvania and a 31-hour train ride from Pittsburgh, Islam Aly on Monday stepped onto the platform of the Amtrak station in Orlando with a beaming smile.

“It’s freaking hot, how long have you guys been here?” he said with a laugh as his friends embraced him.

He returned looking ...Read more

NBC’s “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie made a tearful, emotional plea Tuesday after revelations that a second ransom note sent following her mother’s abduction revealed she died sometime after the abduction.

The note described Nancy Guthrie, according to two sources, as being with nature after her death and made no demand for money...Read more

A gunman who entered a library in Northern California and opened fire Monday night was hoping to commit a massacre akin to the Columbine High School shooting, Chico police officials said.

The Chico Police Department received a 911 call at 5:12 p.m. about an active shooter inside the Chico Branch of the Butte County Library, police Chief Billy ...Read more