Maryland

Thousands in Maryland remain on organ transplant waiting list

February 14 is National Donor Day. There are currently 2.8 million Marylanders registered to donate.

Participants run for charity in their Valentine’s Day best

Participants at annual fundraiser in Washington, D.C. talk dating apps and Valentine’s Day plans.

Irish firm brings renewable energy to Md. poultry industry

RHODESDALE, Maryland – Bob Murphy’s Double Trouble Farms may be the most cutting-edge poultry operation on the Eastern Shore right now. But the significance of the farm in Rhodesdale, Maryland, is not the poultry itself. It’s the technology used to…

Maryland’s Black History: Henrietta Lacks

February is #BlackHistoryMonth and many influential African-Americans have called Maryland home, meet Henrietta Lacks. An ordinary woman with extraordinary cells.

Maryland’s Black History: Frederick Douglass

February is #BlackHistoryMonth and many influential African-Americans have called Maryland home, including Frederick Douglass.

Wacky Weather

COLLEGE PARK- Record-breaking temperatures bring students out to enjoy the unseasonably warm February weather. But the word’s out that winter is about to strike again.

Maryland groups, citizens and attorney general join suits against travel order

WASHINGTON – A refugee resettlement group based in Silver Spring, Maryland, has joined the legal fight against President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations in the Middle East and Africa. HIAS – represented by the ACLU,…

Maryland Democrats alarmed at possible attack on Russian activist

WASHINGTON – A Russian opposition activist and former journalist was hospitalized with organ failure Thursday, two years after a suspected poisoning put him in a coma. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is in critical condition,…

Maryland’s Cardin emerging as leading Trump foreign policy critic

WASHINGTON – After introducing sanctions legislation on Russia and opposing Donald Trump’s nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin is emerging as a leading Democratic critic of the president’s foreign policy. “I think there’s a…

National Zoo soon will wave bye-bye to Bao Bao

WASHINGTON — Bao Bao, born pink, blind and hairless and who has become a beloved animal of the National Zoo, will be leaving for China this winter. The zoo has an agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association under which…