A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from outfitting a Western Maryland warehouse as an immigration detention center until at least mid-April, when a hearing could determine the fate of the entire project.

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson paused construction on the Washington County building as ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Sen. Thom Tillis stepped in and defended the nomination of former Rep. Dan Bishop to serve as U.S. attorney for North Carolina’s Middle District after Sen. Dick Durbin labeled Bishop a “MAGA extremist” with no prosecutorial experience.

“We couldn’t have gotten by with that with the Democratic president,” Durbin ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sent a subpoena to former FBI Director James Comey as part of an investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials waged a years-long conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury subpoena was issued last week by the U.S. ...Read more

In a $1 million settlement announced Thursday, the University of California, Berkeley agreed to rescind bylaws that barred speakers who support Zionism from student-held events.

“This settlement reflects UC Berkeley’s long-standing values and objectives when it comes to combatting abhorrent antisemitic expression, harassment, and ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advocates for the 6-year-old deaf Hayward boy who was deported earlier this month to Colombia say the child’s language skills appear to be deteriorating as he faces problems communicating with almost everyone around him, including his own mother.

“He’s really struggling — the issues have just gotten worse,” said ...Read more

A state legislator wants to repeal César Chavez Day in Minnesota following revelations the farm labor leader reportedly groomed and sexually abused girls who worked as part of his movement.

“The pain and trauma survivors carry is a weight that can’t be erased by replacing signs and names on buildings or repealing this state holiday, but it...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA hopes it has only one more roll to the launch pad before it gets a shot to launch four astronauts around the moon on the Artemis II mission.

Teams are set to begin the 4.2 mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39-B beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday for what would be around a 12-hour trip.

Winds ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has asked for an additional $200 billion from Congress to pay for the war against Iran, a person familiar with the matter said, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argued that the campaign was ahead of schedule and disputed that the U.S. was getting embroiled in a quagmire.

The person, who asked not to be identified ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Before Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi departed for Washington, she told her nation’s lawmakers that her Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday would be “very difficult.”

Actually, it was awkward.

After a reporter questioned Trump about not warning Japan before launching his “surprise” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee advanced the nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin to be Homeland Security secretary Thursday, setting up a potential confirmation vote on the floor as early as next week.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-7 to report the nomination to the floor, the day after a contentious ...Read more

The country’s oldest and most influential farmworkers union, already embroiled in a legal dispute with the Trump administration, is now grappling with how to respond to the uproar over sex abuse allegations against famed labor leader Cesar Chavez.

Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers, said the union wants to be supportive of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to introduce emergency legislation suspending the state’s gas tax for 30 days, adding that the move would provide immediate relief as fuel prices spike amid the war in Iran.

Senate Minority Leader Steve Hershey said he aims to bring the proposal to the Senate floor as soon as ...Read more

MIAMI — What do four of the world’s five richest people have in common?

They all have megamillion waterfront estates in Miami and Miami Beach — including a $170 million property for Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg that recently broke a record as the county’s most expensive home sale ever.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, ...Read more

Another member of the Duggar family, famous for the TLC series "19 Kids and Counting," faces allegations of child sex abuse.

Joseph Duggar, the 31-year-old son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and the younger brother of convicted sex offender Josh Duggar, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Arkansas by local law enforcement on suspicion of ...Read more

Iran stepped up its assault on key oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls for restraint and triggering a fresh surge in energy prices that have highlighted the cost of the ever-widening conflict.

The Islamic Republic targeted sites in countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One day after a newspaper investigation showed that César E. Chávez, the late United Farm Workers union leader who became a national icon for workers and civil rights, allegedly engaged in decades-long acts of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Kansas City leaders are now struggling with the question of what to do with the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Morrison County woman has been fined $150,000 for failing to report a grass fire that began on her property and erupted into a 2,300-acre wildfire last spring.

The fine is one of the largest issued by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources over a wildfire violation, and far higher than any in recent years. The agency ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award is being given to the Twin Cities this year for resistance to immigration enforcement actions this winter, according to the JFK Library Foundation.

“The people of the Twin Cities responded with extraordinary courage and resolve,” according to the announcement. “Tens of ...Read more