The MedStar Health system has logged more than 500,000 video visits in this pandemic-transformed year, a milestone that showcases how telehealth has transformed medical services such as primary care, behavioral health and even cardiology. The half-million online visits that had ...
Read More »Trump order would strip job protections from many federal workers
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security from an estimated tens of thousands of civil servants. ...
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Read More »Supreme Court to weigh Trump plan to exclude noncitizens from census
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will review President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants when calculating how congressional seats are apportioned among the states. The unprecedented proposal would have the effect of shifting both political ...
Read More »No more presidential debates? No problem
The first presidential debate — just over a week ago, if calculated in ordinary time — was a nightmare. Moderator Chris Wallace failed to keep President Donald Trump under control, and the dominant memory is of three white men in ...
Read More »Recalling Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A ‘precise female’
The most gratifying words of praise I’ve ever received were also the tersest: “Just right,” penciled in the margin of a draft opinion I had written as a clerk at the Supreme Court. The author of those words, Justice Ruth ...
Read More »Judges in D.C. threatened, harassed after high-profile, political cases
WASHINGTON — After a recent court hearing in a high-profile, politically charged case, judges on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington received an onslaught of harassing, profane phone calls to their chambers. The angry calls from citizens unhappy with ...
Read More »Trump calls for stimulus payments and massive economic relief bill
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans to support a massive economic relief bill with “much higher numbers” and stimulus payments for Americans, abruptly proposing an entirely different plan from what the Senate GOP sought to ...
Read More »Government misconduct behind many wrongful convictions, study finds
When a prisoner is granted their freedom because they were wrongly convicted of a crime, the focus turns to the years — or decades — they spent behind bars, their feelings upon release and their hopes for the future. But ...
Read More »Coronavirus daily death toll in Md. at lowest level in five months
The average number of daily coronavirus-related deaths in Maryland dropped Monday to its lowest level since the early days of the pandemic. Maryland has reported a daily death toll in the single digits for more than a week, sending its ...
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Read More »Diagnosis for doctors: Less money, greater hardship, more video
The wedding band is gone. So are his class ring, his wristwatch, the neckties he has worn for decades – even the white coat with his name embroidered in blue. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, James McNabb has ...
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