Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military closed two of the region’s few operating border crossings in Rafah, a southern Gazan city, on May 7, 2024.

Responding to political pressure and alarm, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As Maryland leaders push for the federal government to cover all future expenses related to the Francis Scott Key Bridge, members of Congress will hold a hearing Wednesday regarding the response efforts.

The U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing will focus on the federal agencies that have led the ...Read more

Wildwood and Donald Trump. Clout can't think of a more fitting pair.

A boardwalk renowned for its collection of politically incorrect T-shirts is about to get flooded with people who would love a "Let's Go Brandon" cut-off tank.

And Trump, who is facing federal indictments in four jurisdictions, is about to rally in a town where two of the ...Read more

Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden coast.”

Since June 6, 1944, however, this beach has borne a different name: Omaha.

Eighty years ago, on a day now known as D-Day, thousands of Allied ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eilon Presman was about 100 feet from the UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment when he heard the screams: "Zionist! Zionist!"

The 20-year-old junior, who is Israeli, realized the activists were pointing at him.

"Human chain!" they cried.

A line of protesters linked arms and marched toward him, Presman said, blocking him ...Read more

President Joe Biden weighed in on a labor dispute underway at Boeing Co., urging the planemaker to restart stalled contract talks with a union representing 160 of its firefighters.

“Collective bargaining is a right that helps employers and employees,” Biden said in a post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. He said he was...Read more

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman called President Joe Biden's threat to withhold military aid to Israel "deeply disappointing," the latest criticism he has levied at the president over his handling of the war in Gaza.

On Wednesday, Biden announced on CNN that he would halt some shipments of bombs and artillery into Israel if the country invaded the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the deportation process for migrants who are already ineligible for asylum.

The change isn't expected to have broad implications, but rather tighten existing rules. It comes as the White House and Democrats play offense on the border and immigration, one of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he and his staff have been reviewing former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda in detail to prepare a potential onslaught of environmental, immigration and civil rights lawsuits in the event Trump defeats President Joe Biden.

“We can’t be caught flat-footed,” Bonta said...Read more

BOSTON — The head of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce criticized the mayor’s decision to raise the city budget by 8% amid economic uncertainty while urging the City Council to practice “fiscal discipline” by making cuts to her spending proposal.

In a letter addressed to Councilors Brian Worrell and Enrique Pepén, chair and vice ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president, fended off accusations she’d made up the story during hush mney trial testimony Thursday.

As the day’s witnesses wrapped up, ...Read more

The sharp increase in political polarization in America over the past 50 years has been driven in part by how different generations think about politics. But the rise of younger generations to political power may actually erase the deep social divisions associated with polarization.

That’s one of the strong possibilities for the ...Read more

John E. Jones III is the president of Dickinson College and a retired federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush. David E. Clementson is a scholar of political communication at the University of Georgia and a specialist in political deception. Senior politics editor Naomi Schalit interviewed the two about the latest developments in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal judge Wednesday dismissed without prejudice a lawsuit against the Maryland State Board of Elections filed by a right-wing coalition seeking to delegitimize election results across the country.

U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher said in an opinion filed less than a week away from primary day that plaintiffs United ...Read more

A federal appeals court Thursday rejected Hunter Biden’s effort to throw out gun charges against him and ordered the president’s son to go on trial early next month.

Citing procedural grounds, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Hunter Biden’s appeal to have his felony gun case in Delaware tossed before a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration proposed a rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the deportation process for migrants who are already ineligible for asylum.

The change isn't expected to have broad implications, but rather tighten existing rules. It comes as the White House and Democrats play offense on the border and immigration, one of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president, fended off accusations she’d made the story up.

Keying in on a central part of Daniels’ testimony about her encounter with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to give innocent owners of seized cars a right to an immediate hearing to reclaim their vehicles.

Instead, the justices in a 6-3 decision said the Constitution requires a "timely hearing" to consider whether the police had properly arrested the driver and seized the vehicle, but that may take...Read more