BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore recently signed the largest budget in state history, which includes more than a dozen new taxes and fees. But he continues to tout a tax cut for the middle class.

The Democratic governor’s Republican critics have quickly pounced on what they see as gaslighting. Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready, who ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A bill being considered by the Nevada Legislature aims to close family court hearings to increase privacy, but opponents say it is unnecessary legislation that could hinder transparency of elected officials and harm people who can’t afford an attorney.

Senate Bill 432, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, sets ...Read more

DETROIT — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is launching his second campaign for the U.S. Senate on Monday, after narrowly losing the 2024 race to Democrat Elissa Slotkin by about 19,000 votes.

Rogers on Monday formally entered the race for the Republican nomination. The 61-year-old Brighton native represented a mid-Michigan district in the U.S. ...Read more

ATLANTA — Without a word spoken, Georgia state Rep. Carolyn Hugley stood up from her front-row desk in the House chamber, pivoted on her heel and marched toward the back door. Almost every other member of the House Democratic caucus followed in a parade behind her.

It was the penultimate day of this year’s Legislative session, and Hugley ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A verdict in the trial for Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, the man charged with killing Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in August 2023, is expected today after prosecutors rested their case last week.

The prosecution, Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey and Deputy State’s Attorney David Ryden, closed ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation, won’t be returning to its former perch in Baltimore’s Canton Square, despite an executive order last month from President Donald Trump.

Neither will the four Confederate monuments removed from their ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Harrisburg man who is charged with attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family for setting three fires in the residence turned himself in to State Police on Sunday afternoon and admitted to "harboring a hatred" toward Shapiro, according to the criminal complaint filed Sunday.

Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, ...Read more

Six female celebs — including pop songstress Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, author Lauren Sánchez — are slated to blast off Monday morning in a Blue Origin rocket headed for the edge of space.

Flying along with the three household names will be former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, activist and ...Read more

WASHINGTON – Vera Rosenthal, a health communications specialist at the Food and Drug Administration, woke up to an email April 1 informing her that she had been affected by the Trump administration’s “Reduction in Force” effort and no longer had a job at the agency.

About a half hour later, she got out of bed to take her border collie ...Read more

Six female celebs — including pop songstress Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, author Lauren Sánchez — are slated to blast off Monday morning in a Blue Origin rocket headed for the edge of space.

Flying along with the three household names will be former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, activist and ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are expected to hold their second round of nuclear talks on Saturday in Rome, according to people familiar with the matter, following their first meeting in years in Oman over the weekend.

The talks are set to coincide with a visit to Italy by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, though it’s unclear if he’ll be involved in them, ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff exclusions for smartphones and other tech products have added to a growing set of confusing signals for companies and trading partners digesting how to engage a White House still promising to negotiate dozens of new deals in America’s favor.

The dizzying weekend saw Trump exclude popular consumer electronics ...Read more

Ecuador’s electoral authority declared President Daniel Noboa the winner of Sunday’s election, giving him a full four-year term to try to rein in cocaine violence and rouse the economy from its lost decade.

Socialist opposition candidate Luisa González declined to concede, however, and demanded a recount.

With 94% of ballots tallied, ...Read more

Imagine nearly every seat in Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center − over 20,000 seats − are empty. That’s the scale of Pennsylvania’s projected shortfall of registered nurses by 2026, according to the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

Hospitals in the state report an average 14% vacancy rate for registered ...Read more

When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied program within it called the Epidemic Intelligence Service – also known as the CDC’s disease detectives – would also be cut. A few days later, the program was ...Read more

The Trump administration is working to lift regulations on coal-fired power plants in the hopes of making its energy less expensive. But while cost is one important aspect, utilities have a lot more to consider when they choose their power sources.

Different technologies play different roles in the power system. Some sources, like ...Read more