The state’s unique health system controls what hospitals can charge for services.
The proposal to join West Virginia seems destined to go nowhere. But it has tapped into deep-seated feelings of alienation in western Maryland, a mountainous panhandle wedged against the Mason-Dixon line.
American moms are isolated, overworked and undersupported. The solution may be living together, separately.
A local prosecutor disputed accounts, put forth by other authorities, that passengers on the train near Philadelphia had watched the assault happen and done nothing in response.
An 1841 Greek Revival cottage in New Haven, a 1920 rowhouse in Baltimore and a midcentury brick home in St. Louis.
An 1841 Greek Revival cottage in New Haven, a 1920 rowhouse in Baltimore and a midcentury brick home in St. Louis.
The borough across the Delaware River from Trenton, N.J., appeals to empty-nesters who like to walk and commuters seeking a bucolic locale.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority idled 748 Metro cars on Monday after one train derailed at least three times on Oct. 12, officials said.
The SEPTA train car near Philadelphia had several passengers aboard but none called 911 while the woman was sexually assaulted, the authorities said.
Officers in many departments have been slow to get vaccinated and to report their vaccination status, and city officials are struggling to make them pick up the pace.
As President Biden and his allies in Congress work to whittle down the size of their ambitious domestic plans, Democrats must sell a bill without knowing precisely what will be in it.
The state’s Natural Resources Police said they did not know who had set the illegal trap on private property in Upper Marlboro, about 20 miles southeast of Washington.
Working on his own, he used the Freedom of Information Act to publish suppressed documents, sometimes making front-page news.
The hotel magnate Stewart Bainum has put together $15 million in annual funding for a nonprofit news site, The Baltimore Banner.
Mr. Shapiro, the state’s attorney general and a Democratic candidate for governor, has been on the forefront of legal efforts to defend the 2020 election.
In a ceremony in Geneva, the World Health Organization presented an award to the family of Ms. Lacks, whose cancer cells led to world-changing advances in medical and scientific research.
New York City may overhaul its elementary admissions to the selective track.
Jonathan and Diana Toebbe face life in prison if convicted on the charges. Prosecutors, saying they are flight risks, are seeking to keep them in detention.
Jonathan and Diana Toebbe seemed like an ordinary suburban couple, but the F.B.I. said they were would-be spies — and sloppy ones.
Hospital staff members looked the other way while Ricardo Cruciani addicted vulnerable women to pain medications and assaulted them, according to a new lawsuit.
A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.
Working for Knoll, Mr. Schultz created furniture that became classics. One standout: a sleek mesh and aluminum chaise with wheels.
Parents are sneaking carbon dioxide monitors into their children’s schools to determine whether the buildings are safe.
They say a Maryland man, Jeffrey Burnham, 46, may have believed that the pharmacist, his brother, was part of a plot to poison people with Covid-19 shots.
Critical race theory battles hit libraries.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania all have Democratic governors and G.O.P.-led legislatures. And in all three battlegrounds, Republicans are pushing hard to rewrite election laws.
Brandon M. Scott is asymptomatic and self-isolating at home.
Hundreds of students, parents and residents in York County, Pa., protested limits on books told from the perspective of gay, Black and Latino children.
Members of a Haitian church in Philadelphia opened their hearts and pocketbooks to sponsor a family of immigrants. Then came another, and another.
Jarrod W. Ramos had pleaded guilty to murder charges in one of the deadliest attacks on American journalists. In July, a jury found him criminally responsible for the 2018 shooting in Maryland’s capital.
What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?
Target made an ambitious pledge last year: to spend $2 billion with Black-owned businesses and hire more Black employees.
We spent the last four months photographing four blocks along the south end of Wilkes-Barre’s Main Street to capture the pandemic’s impact.
One in three Americans knows someone who died from the coronavirus. We spoke to the people the pandemic left behind.
A powerful winter storm pummeled the northeast, dropping more than a foot of snow in many areas
New York Times reporters provided live coverage of Inauguration Day, as former President Donald J. Trump departed the White House and President Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States.
She had no specialized training, but she did have a way with the fiercest and most vulnerable animals.
Times correspondents report on the first coronavirus vaccinations in the United States.
Catherine Volcy, like college students across America, is studying from home. She is aching to talk in person with her peers and professors about this tumultuous year.
As eastern counties shifted left, Joe Biden was propelled into victory in a state that President Trump narrowly won in 2016.
See full results and maps from the Pennsylvania election.
See full results and maps from the Pennsylvania election.
See full results and maps from the Maryland election.
Here are 20 counties in battleground states that are crucial for a White House victory.
An unlikely scenario with serious consequences.
Detailed results and maps from the Delaware primary election.
“Once on a practice run, I looked down,” said Bruce Freeburger, 69. “I’m not doing that again.”
Get the latest primary results from Iowa, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and more.
With billions of people staying home, the world is reinventing the weekend.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton spoke Friday at the service for the longtime Maryland congressman.
The rapper, who has become an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform, claimed a legal victory after a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled in his favor on Wednesday.
A bakery epitomizes a Zen-inspired approach to hiring: Don’t ask about an applicant’s past. It’s the future that counts.
This tactic dates back to Nixon — and it has always involved a lot of hypocrisy.
The Pennsylvania police officer had an “honest but mistaken” belief he was using his Taser before he wounded the man, investigators said.
The number of people killed in train and bus accidents is relatively low. But the nation’s top safety board says a few simple measures could cut the figures even more.
White supremacists discussed an American re-enactment of the mosque attacks, a criminal complaint says.
Sonya Clark, a social practice artist, unfurls a handmade version of a Confederate truce flag and asks, ‘What if …”
Like many other decades-old cases, the 1973 killings of a Montana couple were finally solved using DNA and genealogy technology. But the suspect in the case had died in 2003.
Rashad James, who works for Maryland Legal Aid, filed a complaint this week asking for the deputy who detained him to be investigated.
Remains buried in the First Baptist cemetery were believed to have been moved in 1860. But many coffins and bones were still there.
The bishops, who served in West Virginia, Maryland and Jamaica, were referred to the Vatican after an internal investigation.
The delegate apologized after a fellow delegate accused her of using the slur, but colleagues on both sides of the aisle have called on her to quit.