From South Carolina to Tokyo, Gov. Wes Moore’s 2025 traveling sales pitch to bring more businesses to Maryland has focused on a few key areas — “lighthouse” industries, as he calls them, that could ignite a new age of economic growth in a state that’s struggled to keep up.

The brightest lighthouse — or at least the one Moore has ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday began tracking a new system approaching the Caribbean while increasing odds for another Atlantic tropical wave that could become the season’s next tropical depressions or storms.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Gabrielle was forecast to intensify into the season’s second hurricane.

Gabrielle is expected to...Read more

President Donald Trump is set to eulogize Charlie Kirk as a patriot and Christian martyr on Sunday as the political activist’s assassination continues to galvanize conservative support for the president.

Already, from statehouses to the nation’s capital, Kirk’s shooting death on Sept. 10 has united Republicans behind an array of political...Read more

Ahi Tuna Wasabi Poke sold at Costco stores under the big box giant’s Kirkland Signature brand got recalled Saturday because the dish might have listeria.

Manufacturer Western United Fresh Co., doing business as Annasea Foods Group, said in its recall notice they made the move “after being notified by our green onion supplier of a Listeria ...Read more

President Donald Trump is set to eulogize Charlie Kirk as a patriot and Christian martyr on Sunday as the political activist’s assassination continues to galvanize conservative support for the president.

Already, from statehouses to the nation’s capital, Kirk’s shooting death on Sept. 10 has united Republicans behind an array of political...Read more

Canada, the UK and Australia have formally recognized a Palestinian state, joining a growing global consensus and pushing ahead with a policy that has drawn criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Canadian and Australian governments announced the move in separate statements on Sunday, calling it a “co-ordinated international effort”...Read more

A hotly contested bill aimed at reducing antisemitism in California schools now awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.

AB 715, introduced by Democratic Assemblymembers Rick Chavez Zbur of Los Angeles and Dawn Addis of San Luis Obispo, seeks to rein in antisemitism in schools by establishing a new Office of Civil Rights to work directly with ...Read more

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month on a college campus in Utah was the latest and perhaps most graphic example of a disturbing trend of recent political violence in the United States.

The murder of Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in June. An arson fire at ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan — a White House aide spearheading the ideological review of the Smithsonian Institution — to be U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia, replacing a prosecutor who was forced out for not bringing fraud charges against New York’s attorney general.

Trump announced the move in a ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased the odds that a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm while Tropical Storm Gabrielle looked to intensify into the season’s second hurricane.

Gabrielle is expected to move well clear of Bermuda in the open Atlantic, but where the ...Read more

President Donald Trump is set to eulogize Charlie Kirk as a patriot and Christian martyr on Sunday as the political activist’s assassination continues to galvanize conservative support for the president.

Already, from statehouses to the nation’s capital, Kirk’s shooting death on Sept. 10 has united Republicans behind an array of political...Read more

Canada, the UK and Australia have formally recognized a Palestinian state, aligning themselves with European allies and pushing ahead with a policy that has drawn criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Canadian and Australia governments announced the move in separate statements on Sunday, calling it a “co-ordinated international ...Read more

SpaceX’s sunrise launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday was the 80th launch of the year on the Space Coast, which is on track to break the annual record and surpass 100 for the year.

A Falcon 9 carrying 28 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites on the Starlink 10-27 mission lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:53 a.m.

The...Read more

Japan could soon see its first female prime minister, with Sanae Takaichi emerging among the front runners in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race, a significant achievement in a country where women leaders remain a rarity.

Hardline conservative Takaichi has consistently been a public favorite, along with agriculture minister...Read more

DENVER — Colorado families paid by Medicaid to provide around-the-clock care for adults with disabilities will do so with about 8% less funding starting next year under one of the cuts meant to close the state’s budget hole

For years, family caregivers in Colorado received a higher reimbursement from Medicaid than “host homes,” where a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At the same time that federal immigration enforcement ramped up across the Los Angeles area this summer, calls for help to local police plummeted.

Emergency dispatch data reviewed by the Los Angeles Times show a major decrease in Los Angeles Police Department calls for service in June, during the weeks when sweeps by U.S. ...Read more

Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office building in an affluent suburb of Detroit.

The building was home to The Oxford Center, a health clinic that provided hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat a variety of disorders.

Inside the clinic, a spark had ignited the high-pressure, pure-oxygen atmosphere in a ...Read more

Trump administration officials, looking at the possible impact of large insurance premium increases for millions of next year’s Obamacare customers, want more people to consider plans with less generous benefits and high deductibles.

The agency that oversees the ACA announced early this month that it would expand eligibility for “...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room.

“Get him off the table,” the doctor recalled telling the surgical team at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital as the team cleaned Black’s chest...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — American flags fluttered in the September breeze on Saturday evening as more than a thousand people gathered near the John F. Kennedy memorial in downtown Fort Worth to honor the life of slain activist Charlie Kirk.

The crowd filled the space around the memorial and consumed the intersection of Main and East 8th streets. ...Read more