West Point investigating 'white power' hand signs by cadets during Army-Navy game attended by Trump
The U.S. Military Academy at West point said Monday it is investigating the apparent display of "white power" hand gestures by cadets over the weekend during the nationally televised annual Army-Navy football game. "The US Military Academy is fully committed to developing leaders of character ...
Maryland newspaper mass shooting suspect pleads guilty to five slayings: Washington Post
The man charged in a 2018 mass shooting at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in Maryland that killed five people admitted his guilt, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Jarrod Ramos, 39, entered his guilty plea in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, the newspaper said. The ...
Taliban says Trump's decision to cancel Afghan talks will mean more U.S. lives lost
The Taliban on Sunday said U.S. President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to cancel peace talks would lead to fresh losses of American lives in Afghanistan at a time when the insurgent group was ready to finalize a deal to end the war. The Islamist group ...
U.S. top court sidesteps major rulings on partisan gerrymandering electoral map manipulation
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to election reformers by declining to use high-profile cases from Wisconsin and Maryland to curb the ability of state lawmakers to draw electoral districts purely for partisan advantage. Sidestepping major rulings, the nine justices decided both ...
Japan Times Bee winner Hanna Yoshida out of Scripps National Spelling Bee
Despite a solid performance in the oral competition Wednesday in the U.S. spelling bee, Japan Times Bee winner Hanna Yoshida failed to qualify for Thursday's finals due to weak written test results. During Wednesday's performance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, ...
Flash flood rages down historic Maryland mainstreet, kills two
Flooding from torrential rain killed two people in Ellicott City, Maryland, with floodwaters that tore through the U.S. town's historic downtown, collapsing a street and sweeping away cars. Ellicott City was pounded by almost 6 inches (15 cm) of rain in two hours late on ...
A Maryland mother was found early Friday pushing her dead 3-year-old boy on a park swing, authorities said. Deputies responded to a call around 7 a.m. to check on a woman who witnesses said had been pushing a child for hours on a swing at ...
Bringing farmers markets to the urban poor
he Crossroads Farmers Market in Maryland is not your typical farmers market. It was founded to offer a friendly environment for low-income people to buy fresh produce.
Government asks U.S. county not to teach South Korean sea name
The government has asked a county in Maryland not to teach public school students the South Korean name for the sea separating Japan and the Korean Peninsula, a government official said in Tokyo. The government told the county that the Sea of Japan is the ...
Blossom Queen ritual becomes an education
Adjusting her cupcake-size replica of a Mikimoto gold-and-pearl crown and gliding through a downtown Washington hotel lobby in her white sash, Taylor Barfield offers her business card with a knowing grin: "First African-American United States Cherry Blossom Queen," it reads. "Sorry if I'm groggy and ...
The Maryland House of Delegates passed what would be among the most restrictive U.S. gun-control measures Wednesday, voting to ratchet up the state's already tough rules by requiring fingerprinting of gun buyers, new limits on firearm purchases by the mentally ill, and bans on ...
