Disability advocates and residents urged the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to advance legislation designed to prevent people with developmental disabilities from losing Medicaid coverage due to administrative errors and delays.

Senate Bill 742, the Maryland Protecting People With Disabilities Act, would codify in state law ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Israeli officials are privately casting doubt on projections from the Trump administration that the war with Iran could end within a matter of weeks — instead warning that a months-long campaign may be required to destroy the country's ballistic missile capabilities and install a pliant government, multiple sources told...Read more

The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday affirming the right of parents to know about their child’s gender identity at school has left California educators with complicated questions about how to protect the sometimes competing rights of students, school employees and family members.

The Supreme Court decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta, while falling ...Read more

The U.S. State Department announced plans to help evacuate Americans who want to leave the Middle East amid the war with Iran, after conflicting messages about the scale of the threat prompted confusion among thousands of U.S. citizens in the region.

In a statement, the department announced that it would send chartered planes to help Americans ...Read more

Medical marijuana may be available to Maryland firefighters and rescue personnel in the future, after a bill allowing its usage advanced a step closer to passing the state Senate on Tuesday.

The bill would protect fire and rescue employees who are registered medical cannabis patients, allowing them to use medical cannabis when off-duty and ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A federal judge temporarily paused a Virginia law limiting social media access for children while a court case challenging the law proceeds.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, of the Eastern District of Virginia, granted a request for a preliminary injunction in a Friday decision.

The opinion pauses a Virginia law ...Read more

The Michigan House approved legislation Tuesday that aims to put a check on the State Board of Education's ability to change model curriculum standards following the board's controversial approval of new sex ed standards last year.

The bill, which passed the House largely along party lines, would prohibit any state board changes to state model ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed concern that the strikes against Iran could lead to a new leadership that’s equally troubling to Washington as the regime the U.S. and Israel are fighting to topple.

Trump’s comments are likely to spur concerns on the administration’s endgame with the conflict well into its fourth day and ...Read more

A shock-and-awe campaign laying down a tsunami of bombs. An enemy succumbing rapidly under overwhelming firepower. And a triumphant U.S. president trumpeting a quick and easy campaign.

In 2003, President George W. Bush strode confidently on the deck of an aircraft carrier less than five weeks after he ordered the invasion of Iraq and declared ...Read more

NEW YORK — The first cohort of New York City’s free child-care programs for 2-year-olds will open this fall in five local school districts, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday in upper Manhattan.

The priority neighborhoods include Manhattan’s School District 6 in Washington Heights and Inwood; the Bronx’s School...Read more

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to an interview with the House Oversight Committee over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the panel’s chairman said.

“I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee. I look forward to his testimony,” ...Read more

Does politics stress you out? Did the last election cause you to lose sleep, lose your temper or lose a friend? If so, you weren’t alone.

For the better part of two decades, the American Psychological Association has documented a steady increase in the phenomenon of “political stress” among American voters. However, research and...Read more

“People can assess me, interview me, incarcerate me, observe me, and they can think they know what I need,” said Shawn, a man in his early 50s who spent 15 years in and out of prison. “And that can be an educated assessment, but at the end of the day, I live inside of this body, inside of this head. I know what I need.”

Shawn ...Read more

When the bombing of Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, the Trump administration had not informed the American people exactly what it was prepared to achieve.

Was the attack intended to degrade Iran’s nuclear program? Trump had declared that “obliterated” after last June’s bombing.

Was it to slow Iran’s ballistic missile ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States plunged further into conflict with Iran on Tuesday as a new round of strikes heightened fears of an expanding war in the Middle East, sending markets reeling and oil prices soaring and drawing urgent calls from European leaders for a plan forward.

President Donald Trump acknowledged during an Oval Office ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided negotiations would go nowhere with Iranian officials after Tehran’s “clever” negotiators “procrastinated” and masked their true nuclear capabilities and goals, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

The officials, during a midday call with reporters that lasted just over an hour,...Read more

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is preparing for President Trump to declare a national emergency in order to seize control of this year's midterm elections from the states, including by bracing his Senate colleagues for a vote in which they would be forced to either co-sign on the power grab or resist it.

In the wake of reporting last week that ...Read more