WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die” on Tuesday night if Iran does not meet his deadline to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions as diplomatic talks to end the war remain underway.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump wrote Tuesday ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore is expected to sign the state budget into law on Wednesday, multiple sources told The Baltimore Sun, finalizing just over two months of negotiations among Maryland lawmakers as they sought to close a billion-dollar deficit without raising taxes.

House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk’s office is expecting the ...Read more

MIAMI – Public safety, legal liability and the president’s personal profit margins are on the line in the high-stakes, closed-door negotiations between Donald Trump’s affiliated companies and Palm Beach County over the renaming of the county airport.

Before the county can start physically changing the signs from Palm Beach International ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools are one week away from a historic employee walkout — which for the first time would involve three major unions representing teachers, most non-teaching staff and school administrators, including principals and assistant principals.

If a strike unfolds on April 14 with the three unions — or even two of the...Read more

CHICAGO — One year into his tenure as Chicago’s top federal law enforcement officer, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros is defending his handling of Operation Midway Blitz cases and says a changeover of the old guard and influx of new prosecutors has reinvigorated an office that aims to get back to bread-and-butter targets like violent crime, ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his ultimatum for Iran to agree to a ceasefire deal or face a major military escalation, as both sides kept up attacks in the sixth week of the war.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said in a social-...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown is warning residents about a surge in fraudulent investment schemes spreading across social media platforms, where scammers are increasingly using deceptive advertising and artificial intelligence to steal money from unsuspecting users.

The schemes are proliferating on platforms owned by ...Read more

Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back late last year.

Ollie’s parents, who adopted her in 2020, tried to sign her up for a clinical trial using CAR T-cell therapy — which genetically ...Read more

CINCINNATI — For four years, Kimberly Dudley has worked on the front line of the Affordable Care Act as a navigator, helping Ohioans solve the puzzle of buying private insurance on the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace.

But the job is harder now, the answers scarcer. In one of its first acts, the second Trump administration cut annual ...Read more

As countries and consumers embrace renewable energy in the wake of the Iran war, skyrocketing gasoline prices in the U.S. are fueling efforts to weaken state climate laws.

Renewable energy mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generally have little impact on U.S. gas prices, according to experts. But the growing pain at the pump has ...Read more

DENVER — During President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, 4,750 people without legal status were arrested by federal immigration authorities in Colorado, new data shows, reflecting a near-quadrupling of the prior year’s arrest rate.

The data provides detailed insights into the dramatic effects of the Trump administration’s ...Read more

Soaring fuel prices driven by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran risks worsening an already dire situation in Haiti, the International Monetary Fund warned Monday, as a recent hike at the pump renewed protests in gang-plagued Port-au-Prince.

Angry bus drivers took to the streets in the Delmas 33 neighborhood of the capital, blocking roads with their ...Read more

NEW YORK — Multiple activists were arrested for occupying the lobby of the Palantir building in the West Village after a protest in which Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood with hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers on the sixth night of Passover to protest the federal immigration crackdown.

Mamdani joined more than 500 activists at Union Square for “...Read more

Several states, including Virginia, are suing President Donald Trump over an executive order that would change how mail-in voting works in federal elections.

The order would not impact the state redistricting referendum. Upwards of 219,000 people voted early by mail according to the Virginia Public Access Project.

The executive order directs ...Read more

A judge denied Minnesota’s request to immediately block the Trump administration’s attempted withholding of a quarter billion dollars in Medicaid funding federal officials say is related to the state’s fraud problems.

U.S. District Court Judge Eric C. Tostrud on April 6 ruled in favor of the Trump administration in a lawsuit filed by ...Read more