BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore — stepping into territory more often associated with presidents — invited the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team to visit Maryland’s capital.

Moore’s invitation represents the latest in a political-sports drama that began when President Donald Trump appeared to slight the women’s team ...Read more

A Denver law firm accused the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday of illegally coordinating the arrest and transfer of an immigrant without proper legal status last year.

The nonprofit law firm, Towards Justice, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sheriff Lou Vallario after months of allegations raised by Glenwood Springs-based ...Read more

Two Maryland lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday aimed at protecting the independence of inspectors general and ensuring they can access records needed for official investigations.

GOP Del. Ryan Nawrocki and Democratic Del. Vaughn Stewart said Thursday that current rules allow agencies under investigation delay or block oversight by ...Read more

A group of former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys say the ongoing federal attempt to force Minnesota officials to turn over its voter rolls amounts to a “fishing expedition” not supported by law.

Sixteen former DOJ lawyers who worked on voting issues say the department “overstepped its bounds” in the dispute that has since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two Democratic secretaries of state said they were told the Trump administration isn’t planning to send federal immigration enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s congressional elections.

State officials were told during a call Wednesday with federal authorities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more

Let there be light!

Power restoration crews are making major progress in their storm recovery efforts, as the Bay State power outage totals significantly dropped on Thursday.

Meanwhile, some roads were still blocked on the hard-hit South Coast, which got a whopping three feet of snow from the historic blizzard earlier this week. Plow crews ...Read more

The number of U.S. nationals applying for British citizenship hit an all-time high in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

A total of 8,790 Americans sought citizenship through either registration or naturalization in 2025, according to Home Office data published Thursday, 42% more than the previous high ...Read more

Wearing a pink top bearing her daughter’s photo, Kanaiyah Ward’s mother asked Maryland legislators Thursday to spare other parents the pain of burying a child whose care had been entrusted to the state.

“Kanaiyah was a wonderful daughter, and we will miss her,” Brooke Ward told a House committee. “But I hope that you don’t think we ...Read more

There’s still a month left, but this winter in California so far can be summed up in two words: roller coaster.

It began so dry that Lake Tahoe ski resorts couldn’t open for their usual Thanksgiving kickoff. Then 10 feet of snow fell around Christmas, saving ski season and bringing totals up to historic averages. But five weeks of warm, dry...Read more

MIAMI — The boat the Cuban government says arrived in its waters Wednesday carrying 10 armed men was reported stolen hours later from the Florida Keys according to a report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The Cuban coast guard approached the boat and shot several of the men after taking fire from people aboard, according to a ...Read more

The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday to add regulations to large-scale data centers aimed at protecting consumers from potential price increases for electricity or water.

The bipartisan move came as wealthy tech companies are eyeing Florida as a potentially new frontier for the nationwide boom of data centers, the climate-...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The wife of a senior UPS pilot who was killed in a plane crash last year in Louisville, Kentucky, has filed a lawsuit against the companies that manufactured the plane and its engines, according to court records.

Donna Diamond filed the lawsuit Wednesday against Boeing, General Electric and VT San Antonio Aerospace in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has reported 10 measles cases so far in 2026 amid a declining vaccination rate that’s left more people vulnerable to the highly infectious disease and its characteristic head-to-toe rash.

The case cluster is raising concerns when considering that Minnesota had 26 infections in total last year. All 10 people were ...Read more

The Cuban government’s accusations that several Floridians attempted to invade the island Wednesday on a speedboat carrying Molotov cocktails and sniper rifles has set off shockwaves across the Sunshine State.

For now, it’s unclear whether the men Havana identified were actually on the boat and what they were doing. The federal government ...Read more

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro met with leaders in Berks and Schuylkill counties Thursday as those communities confront the planned federal conversion of two warehouses into ICE detention centers, pledging to do everything possible to block the Trump administration’s plans in the state.

Shapiro, a Democrat who first opposed the potential ...Read more

The Maryland House of Delegates passed two bills Thursday to restrict the spread and impact of immigration detention facilities in the state, amid work by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and private companies to set up immigration detention centers. The legislation now goes to the State Senate.

One bill, HB 1017, that passed 98-36 ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A new California bill co-authored by a Fresno-area legislator intends to reopen Medi-Cal applications for undocumented adults who lost access to the program because of cuts made to the state’s budget last year.

The Medical Access Restoration Act, known as SB 1422, would end the Medi-Cal enrollment freeze that took effect ...Read more

Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New York, ...Read more