BALTIMORE — Baltimore police vehicles were in 623 crashes in the city from January 2024 to August 2025. These accidents cost a total of $1,027,397, with vehicles either being a total loss or repaired for future usage. Several accidents had more than $30,000 in damage.

Department spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge said roughly half of the ...Read more

The big question regarding Sunday’s snow storm threat on Friday not so subtly pivoted from will it happen to how much.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch starting at 6 a.m. Sunday into Monday morning for the potential of 6 inches of snow or more.

With a surprising level of agreement so far in advance of a first-...Read more

CHICAGO — The University of Chicago is among 31 universities nationwide to cut ties with The Ph.D. Project, an organization known for helping students of color attain professional degrees, amid an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.

The organization, founded in 1994 to increase diversity among business school faculty, provides ...Read more

Florida’s middle and high school students will learn about the fall of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as part of their history of communism lessons to be implemented next year.

The State Board of Education on Friday unanimously approved adding the information into social studies standards that it originally adopted in November.

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LOS ANGELES — U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi declared a triumph against California on Friday, touting an appellate court ruling that she said blocked a state ban on immigration agents and other law enforcement officers wearing masks.

"The 9th Circuit has now issued a FULL stay blocking California's ban on masks for federal law enforcement agents,"...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, which have caused mass disruption for Minnesota businesses, farmers and consumers.

The state’s top Democrats were quick to praise the 6-3 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who reprimanded the president for overstepping his executive power...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Abortion in Kentucky would be treated like a homicide under a bill proposed Friday by social conservative legislator Rep. Josh Calloway, R-Irvington. But if recent history and another legislator interested in the issue are any indication, don’t expect the bill to move.

House Bill 690 would supersede Kentucky’s current ...Read more

Maryland officials say they are gathering the data needed to pursue federal disaster aid for the state’s struggling oyster industry, as watermen and Eastern Shore lawmakers press for relief under both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fishery disaster process and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

For weeks, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t need to go to Congress to restore his sweeping global tariffs after the Supreme Court decision Friday that struck them down.

Asked if he would go to Congress on the matter, Trump told reporters at the White House “I don’t need to” because the authorities he is seeking are already approved. Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at Supreme Court justices who struck down his tariffs agenda, calling them “fools” who made a “terrible, defective decision” that he plans to circumvent by imposing new levies in a different way.

In a defiant appearance at the White House, Trump told reporters that his ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors said Friday, Feb. 20, that the U.S. government has yet to formally decide whether to seek the death penalty against Vance Boelter, the man accused of shootings two Minnesota state lawmakers and their families last summer.

During a brief appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, assistant U.S. ...Read more

Understanding one another can be hard. There is a big difference between someone snapping at you out of contempt, and calling you out for a mistake because they believe in you and know you can do better. One of these cases calls for anger, but the other for humility or even embarrassment. Or maybe they are only snapping because they’re “...Read more

About half of the global population menstruates at some point in their lives. Disposable products, such as tampons and pads, are some of the most popular products used around the globe to manage menstrual flow.

Unfortunately, studies have shown that many personal care products, including shampoo, lotion, nail polish and menstrual ...Read more

In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as the result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.

Radon is present nearly everywhere outdoors, yet typically at levels that are not harmful. It becomes dangerous when it gets trapped and ...Read more

As the actions of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come under intense scrutiny, it’s worth noting that a little more than 100 years ago, another expansion of federal policing – to enforce national Prohibition – also sparked nationwide concern.

As a U.S. history scholar, I know both the government agencies ...Read more

President Donald Trump faces daunting odds of convincing the U.S. Congress to restore his sweeping global tariffs after the Supreme Court decision Friday that struck them down.

The slim Republican majority in both chambers and heightened anxiety around the economic impact of the duties will make enshrining the tariffs into law challenging.

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BOSTON — Acting Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) Director Michael Cole has been appointed as the agency’s official head, effective immediately, as a flurry of SNAP-EBT fraud schemes have been uncovered in Massachusetts and just days after the Herald published a DTA whistleblower’s account of “rampant” fraud within the ...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — When Kansas began requiring residents to prove their U.S. citizenship before voting more than a decade ago, Steven Wayne Fish tried and failed.

A first-time father in his 30s at the time, he wanted a say in debates over public school funding despite having never voted before. But Fish, who was born on a since-decommissioned Air...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego County supervisor is proposing seismic changes to how county government works, who controls it and how many terms they can serve.

Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer wants to ask voters to overhaul the county’s charter — effectively its constitution — in a way that could hand additional power to supervisors and strip ...Read more

The four astronauts set to venture farther than any human has ever traveled from Earth are set to enter quarantine Friday with the chance to launch on the Artemis II moonshot mission early next month.

NASA officials announced the new target after completing a redo of a simulated countdown Thursday night at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39...Read more