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Gov. Wes Moore signs $71B Maryland budget; no tax increases but fiscal concerns loom
The governor signed off on a balanced budget Wednesday morning, but questions around how state officials plan to balance an impending $3 billion deficit are underway.
Maryland lawmakers on course to ban sale of Glocks and ‘machine gun convertible pistols’
The bill would make Maryland the only state other than California to ban the sale of semiautomatic handguns that can be converted into machine guns with an illegal aftermarket device.
Maryland Senate passes utility relief bill, House and advocates concerned with changes
The Senate added some hefty amendments to the House’s version of the Utility RELIEF Act, and the House speaker and consumer advocates worry the changes will provide less relief for ratepayers.
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Ketlain Difficile/APA stampede at a mountaintop fortress popular with tourists in northern Haiti has killed at least 25 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said. -
Guadalupe Pardo/APVoters will have to wait until at least Monday to learn the outcome of Sunday's presidential election after the process was mired with logistical issues that left thousands unable to cast ballots. -
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APPresident Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary broadside against Pope Leo XIV on Sunday night, saying he didn't think the U.S.-born global leader of the Catholic Church is "doing a very good job." -
Rich Pedroncelli/FR171957 APThe San Francisco Chronicle and CNN reported multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. Swalwell calls them false but apologized to his supporters and family. -
Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty ImagesHungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party. -
Andrew Medichini/APPope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years. -
Steven Siewert/Fairfax Media via Getty ImagesThe Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs. -
NPRNPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KUT listener Nell Newton and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. -
AFP/via Getty ImagesIn a rare interview, a wounded Hezbollah commander tells NPR about his secretive Shia Muslim militia's new command structure and how it has managed to keep firing rockets into northern Israel. -
APAfter talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Trump said the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military said it would blockade ships entering or exiting Iranian ports.
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