BALTIMORE — The Senate gave final approval Tuesday evening to a bill to amend the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future — but not without addressing a controversial amendment regarding transgender children in sports.

“We want to protect the crucial role that women’s sports have played in the development of young women for a long time — ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program, a move advocates say will wreak havoc on the program’s operations and bring critical operations to a standstill.

Tens of thousands of responders and survivors rely on the WTC Health Program to get treatment and medication and monitor ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed sweeping public corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams “with prejudice,” blasting the Trump administration’s bid to potentially bring them again while securing the mayor’s help in hardline immigration enforcement as a “disturbing” bargain.

Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After intense scrutiny of Los Angeles County's failures in coordinating evacuations during January's deadly firestorm, the county will look into creating a registry for people with disabilities and other mobility challenges in case of future disasters.

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion, brought forward ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis passed an ordinance last year aimed to close a “loophole” in the state’s prohibition on indoor smoking that allowed for licensed tobacconists to run cigar lounges. It appeared to affect only one business: Anthony’s Pipe and Cigar Lounge in Uptown.

Anthony’s has a sprawling leather seating room where ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida troopers patrolling the state’s roadways are being told to arrest and jail undocumented immigrants on offenses like driving without a valid driver’s license as a way to help push more people on the path to deportation, according to state guidelines obtained by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times.

“Every effort ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent alleged gang members for detention has a reputation for human rights violations and corruption, with civil rights groups challenging the removals calling it “one of the worst prisons in the world.”

In court cases, the American Civil Liberties Union and ...Read more

New Jersey senator Cory Booker broke a nearly 70-year-old record Tuesday with a marathon speech on the Senate floor criticizing Trump administration policies, which he spent days preparing for.

“I didn’t know how long I could go. I’m so grateful I lasted for 25 hours [and four minutes],” Booker told reporters after leaving the floor.

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BALTIMORE – As day two of the trial for Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez begins in Harford Circuit Court, there are 65 potential jurors left from a pool of 124, Harford State’s Attorney Alison Healy said Wednesday morning. Healy said that the aim is to seat the final members of the jury today in the trial of the man charged with rape and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A jailed University of Minnesota student from Turkey alleges in a court petition that federal agents illegally arrested him last week and stripped him of his student visa.

Dogukan Gunaydin, 28, filed the petition in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Sunday. It names as respondents President Donald Trump and Cabinet members, ...Read more

A federal judge in Northern California ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal funding for migrant children in immigration court.

Nonprofits representing unaccompanied minors challenged the administration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the government notified them on March 21 that ...Read more

DENVER — The Elizabeth School District has yet to return 19 books that a federal judge last month ordered be put back on library shelves as district leaders appeal the ruling — and despite a law firm’s unsolicited donation of the titles in question.

The order followed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott unveiled Wednesday his $4.6 billion budget plan to close the city’s $85 million deficit for the upcoming 2026 fiscal year.

The mayor’s proposal seeks to fill the gap between revenues and expenditures by increasing fees on landfill use, emergency medical services transports and ride-sharing/taxi ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Tuesday to legislation creating a statewide reparations commission to study and make recommendations on benefits to Marylanders whose ancestors were enslaved or impacted by inequitable government policies.

“Maryland has a long history of racial inequities, from slavery to...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed the sweeping public corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams — outright denying “with prejudice” an effort by Donald Trump’s Justice Department to keep open the possibility of bringing them again.

Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho’s decision was not based on the merits ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency before a severe and life-threatening storms arrives in Kentucky Wednesday and lingers through Saturday.

The storms are expected to arrive in the farthest areas of Western Kentucky around 6 p.m. EDT and push eastward across the state, according to the National Weather Service. A few Western ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness started to circulate.

In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, ...Read more

BOSTON — Day two of the Karen Read murder retrial has begun, with attorneys hoping to add more members to the final jury pool.

On Tuesday, the first day, attorneys agreed to two potential jurors, a man and woman, to add to the final jury pool.

Read, 45, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston ...Read more