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For the first time in its history, the Minnesota Senate will allow senators and staff to bring their children on the floor following calls from women on both sides of the aisle to make the chamber more welcoming to parents...Read more

The Maryland House Government, Labor and Elections Committee quietly, and unanimously, approved an amendment adding redistricting language to a Senate elections bill — a move Republicans warned could provoke pushback on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it harder for music and movie makers to sue for online piracy, ruling that internet providers are usually not liable for copyright infringement even if they know their ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Unified School District is starting the process to rename Cesar Chavez Elementary following allegations that the late labor leader sexually abused young girls decades ago.

The board voted Tuesday ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Nearly two years after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, businesses and communities across the Baltimore region are still dealing with the fallout, as longer commutes and traffic diversions have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Even as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes for talks to end the war against Iran, the U.S. has ordered thousands of troops to the region, fueling fears that the president is gearing up for exactly the sort ...Read more

DALLAS — As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shutdown reaches its 40th day, air travelers across the country are seeing record-high wait times.

Passengers at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — City crews were on the verge of welding a manhole cover shut in South Los Angeles on Wednesday morning when a surprise discovery stopped them in their tracks.

“Hey, there’s someone down there,” one ...Read more

Meta said its road to the metaverse ran through Seattle. Recent layoffs point to a dead end.

Meta laid off hundreds of employees Wednesday, about two months after a sweeping workforce reduction at the company.

A Meta ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Police are investigating allegations of a third domestic violence incident involving reality TV stars Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen, a police spokesperson told The Times on Tuesday.

According to...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Political strategists liken special elections to tea leaves. Reading them is an act of interpretation, not observation.

So it’s risky drawing broad lessons from two state legislative races that, combined...Read more

A federal appeals court has sided with the Trump administration’s stance that immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally are ineligible for bond hearings.

In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges in the 8th U.S. Circuit ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Dozens of survivors of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, including several who grew up in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, are splitting from a national support network to form a coalition that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, is set to replace newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Husted confirmed Tuesday.

Husted, who had been his state’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson previewed a floor strategy Wednesday that would leave little room for Republican defections as he pushes to renew a powerful surveillance authority, with chamber leadership navigating a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans immediately rejected a new offer Wednesday from Democrats to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, in a troubling sign for negotiations as lawmakers scramble to reach a deal before a...Read more

Driving in Ellicott City on Saturday, Gwen Everett almost couldn’t believe the amount of trash she saw on the side of the northbound ramp from Route 103 to U.S. Route 29 — an upside-down wooden side table sat next to ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky House of Representatives voted Friday to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman in a rare move, sending articles of impeachment to the state Senate for trial.

Such proceedings ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade’s Democratic mayor this week said that any real political change forced on Cuba by the Trump administration must leave the Castro family fully out of power.

“Reports of secret negotiations with ...Read more

The Transportation Security Administration warned that airport security is under severe strain as a weekslong Department of Homeland Security funding shutdown drives staffing shortages, long wait times and mounting ...Read more