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Hillary Clinton worked to pull out a victory in Nevada's caucuses on Saturday, seeking to undercut the headway of rival Bernie Sanders and boost her presidential bid as the campaign broadens to primary contests across the country.
Several important civil rights leaders, including one from Baltimore, had a chance to meet with President Obama at the White House.
Maryland's attorney general has appealed a decision by a three-judge panel that sent the state's assault weapons ban back to a lower court for review.
The Maryland House of Delegates has voted to make it a criminal misdemeanor to smoke marijuana in vehicles.
The papal spokesman is stressing that Pope Francis often says build bridges, not walls, and that his remark while flying back from Mexico wasn't targeting U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
A greater percentage of Democratic registered voters view the Vermont senator as likable, honest, competent and compassionate than they did just two months ago, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Seventy-two percent now believe he could win the general election, a 21 percentage point increase from the last time the survey was conducted in December.
Feuding between Maryland's Republican governor and the Democratic-led legislature intensified Thursday, as black lawmakers criticized budget decisions affecting areas with large minority populations and the governor compared his critics to rowdy college students on spring break.
Maryland Rep. Andy Harris is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.
President Barack Obama's impending standoff with Republicans over filling a Supreme Court vacancy in the final months of his term is matter of civil rights and respect for the first African-American president, black leaders said Thursday, as they ratcheted up pressure on the Senate to consider a nominee.
Asked about Donald Trump's views on immigration, Pope Francis says anyone who wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border isn't Christian.
President Barack Obama is looking for a Supreme Court nominee with past Republican support, Vice President Joe Biden said, offering some of the first indications of the White House criteria in trying to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
President Barack Obama is expected to visit Cuba next month, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to make a state visit to the island in nearly nine decades.
The parents of two teens killed in a drunk driving crash are set to testify for a bill proposing jail time for adults who host teen alcohol parties.
Nevada was supposed to be one of Hillary Clinton's safest bets. But in the final days before Saturday's caucuses, Clinton's chances of a big victory look far more like a political crapshoot.
Maryland lawmakers will be discussing a proposal to raise the state's tobacco tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1.
