WASHINGTON — The Atlantic’s top editor said he was added to a text group in which top U.S. officials discussed detailed plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen with other top U.S. officials, an extraordinary breach of security from an administration that has repeatedly vowed to clamp down on leaks.

Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than 440,000 acres to the county’s hazard zones, including a 30% increase in acres zoned in the highest severity rating.

The release — ...Read more

WASHINGON — The Atlantic’s top editor said he was added to a text group in which top U.S. officials discussed detailed plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen with other top U.S. officials, an extraordinary breach of security from an administration that has repeatedly vowed to clamp down on leaks.

Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he expected efforts to slash the size of the federal government’s workforce would bring it down to an appropriate level in the next two to three months as he met with billionaire adviser Elon Musk and Cabinet officials on Monday.

“We’re getting down to a point we think probably over the next two ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams attacked ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of COVID and his nursing home scandal on Monday — escalating his criticism of the former governor gunning for his job.

“Someone said, well, he’s a great manager. Well, he darn sure didn’t manage that crisis well,” Adams said of Cuomo at a press briefing Monday.

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A planned trip by U.S. administration representatives to Greenland this week shows “a lack of respect for the Greenlandic people” given government negotiations are still ongoing, according to the territory’s election winner, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will travel with her son and a delegation ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mexican governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño met with Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento last week to advance a new climate partnership between California and the Mexican state of Sonora.

Newsom and Durazo Montaño signed on March 17 a new partnership advancing cross-border action for cleaner air and clean energy.

The four-year...Read more

Members of a federal appeals court panel were divided Monday at a hearing over whether to lift a pause on the Trump administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador without a chance to object.

A three-judge panel is weighing whether to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s March 15 proclamation that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.

Grantees were told in termination notices delivered over the last several days that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities” and ...Read more

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," was detained Monday in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military after he was attacked by settlers, according to his Israeli co-director and Jewish activists.

Journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed "No Other Land," wrote ...Read more

A federal agency that funds libraries and museums is fighting to survive President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the U.S. government — reductions that also could jeopardize dozens of Maryland cultural programs, from an initiative in Baltimore that provides blind college students with Braille textbooks to a program in Towson aimed at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he has picked Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency after the White House unexpectedly withdrew the nomination of former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon earlier this month.

Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, ...Read more

Two Maryland lawmakers are leading an effort to address so-called “forever chemicals” generated by wastewater treatment plants that pose a threat to human health.

Sponsored by state Sen. Sara Love, D-Montgomery, and state Del. Dana Stein, D-Baltimore Co., the bill seeks to limit the levels of polyfluoroalkyl substances — commonly known as...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team have had success in driving down egg prices, but achieving this campaign promise largely has been drowned out by their aggressive push to expand executive authority, target political rivals and dismantle certain government agencies.

Some congressional Democrats, sensing a politically weakened ...Read more

The U.S. national debt has ballooned to over $36 trillion, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Idaho Gov. Brad Little say they’ve had enough.

At a joint news conference Monday, they said they knew how to solve the problem: They advocated for amending the U.S. Constitution to require balanced federal budgets. Many states, including Florida and ...Read more

It’s been more than two months since Sen. John Fetterman held a public event in Pennsylvania, stopping by the Pennsylvania Farm Show in January. Next on his schedule: appearing at an event in Pittsburgh to promote Republican Sen. Dave McCormick’s new book about mentorship — Fetterman’s latest display of bipartisanship that is rankling ...Read more

One week after being arrested and charged with attempting to solicit sex from a minor, former State Sen. Justin Eichorn is now facing a divorce.

Brittany M. Eichorn of Grand Rapids filed for divorce Monday in Itasca County, according to online court records. She has requested the proceedings be sealed from the public. Her attorney, Jay Ramos, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.

Grantees were told in termination notices delivered over the last several days that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities” and ...Read more