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Transportation pioneer Elon Musk has been known to talk big and sometimes overpromise. But on Thursday, the Tesla chief and rocket builder took it up a notch, offering a tantalizing but so-far undocumented announcement that his tunnel-boring company had received ...

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A Supreme Court mystery: Has Chief Justice John Roberts embraced the court’s same-sex marriage decision that he so passionately protested two years ago? The “does-he-doesn’t-he” question is prompted by a case the court decided without oral arguments at the end ...

NEW YORK – Not much Martin Shkreli has done the past two weeks has helped him in a trial that could put him behind bars for 20 years for eight counts of securities and wire fraud. He was personally rebuked ...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is joining his counterpart from the District of Columbia in suing President Donald Trump, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments ...

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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reversing an Obama administration practice that encouraged and sometimes required banks and other companies to donate large amounts of money to outside groups as part of settlement agreements with the federal government. In ...

More than 500 school employees in Prince George’s County have been placed on administrative leave at some point during this school year in response to alleged child abuse or neglect – a sharp spike over previous years amid a push ...

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Maryland prosecutors said Friday they will drop rape and sex offense charges against two immigrant teens accused of attacking a 14-year-old classmate in a high school bathroom stall in a case that shocked local parents, attracted international and White House ...

President Donald Trump has promised to reveal the broad strokes of a plan to cut Americans’ taxes this week — a plan he says will be historic in scope. If Trump hopes to make good on that pledge, he’ll have ...

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Speaking of air travel, there is an alternative to putting up with the pat downs, long lines, constant waits, cancellations and the passenger mistreatment you’ve been reading about recently. But it will probably cost you thousands of dollars per hour. ...

A fascinating study in Health Affairs last year by a father-daughter pair of public policy researchers found that Medicare prescriptions for things like painkillers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications dropped sharply in states that introduced a medical marijuana program. The implication? ...