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Alsobrooks, RFK Jr. spar during testy Senate hearing

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has repeatedly called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign from his post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Why are Preakness racehorses such good athletes? Their ancestors didn’t want to get eaten.

Seize The Grey led the pack in the 149th running of The Preakness Stakes.

Here’s how Medicaid cuts could be a $1 billion blow to Maryland’s budget

Meredith Cohn and Pamela Wood

May 13, 2025

State health officials have spent weeks trying to assess the impact of what they see as increasingly likely cuts outlined by GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

It’s tick season and there is a new bugger catching a ride in Baltimore

May 10, 2025

Close up photo of adult female deer tick crawling on piece of straw.

How Baltimore County school budget woes could reshape student mental health support

Kristen Griffith

May 9, 2025

Federal workers may ‘need to vent’: How to cope and manage workplace stress

May 5, 2025

Alsobrooks, RFK Jr. spar during testy Senate hearing

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has repeatedly called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign from his post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Naval Academy’s changing — but this messy tradition isn’t going anywhere

Plebe Augustus Russo, center, of Summit, New Jersey, successfully places an upperclassman’s hat atop the Herndon Monument on Wednesday.

Baltimore charter schools say they’re underfunded. State leaders seem to agree.

Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Carey Wright issued guidance on charter school funding this month.

The Ravens’ schedule is here. These are the dates to circle.

The Ravens will make another visit to Kansas City as part of a difficult season-opening stretch.

Deportation suspended for two women held in ‘inhumane’ Baltimore holding room

The George H. Fallon Federal Building at 31 Hopkins Plaza in downtown Baltimore, where ICE continues to hold detained immigrants.

Thousands of Marylanders used this site to track their vaccinations. Now it’s gone.

May 2, 2025

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.

Twice as many Baltimoreans needed an emergency shelter in the last 2 years

Updated May 1, 2025

The encampment in Brooklyn Park features several tents in circle with Pam Macapagal's shelter in the center.

Johns Hopkins to tap earnings from endowment to help address federal cuts

Apr 29, 2025

Johns Hopkins University plans to launch research grant programs of its own to help make up for lost federal funding.

The state’s troubled psychiatric hospital has a new issue: Legionella bacteria

Apr 25, 2025

The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

Parents of young children will be able to defer jury duty under new state law

Apr 25, 2025

New Jersey wildfire smoke is lowering the Baltimore region’s air quality

Apr 24, 2025

Air quality reached dangerous levels in Baltimore on June 7, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to fill the sky.

Allergy season is in full swing in Maryland and about to get worse. Here’s how to cope.

Apr 23, 2025

A Mallard swims in pollen filled water along the eastern shoreline of the Patapsco River in Baltimore County.

Newborn’s alleged listeria-related death from ice cream sparks $30 million lawsuit

Apr 17, 2025

Pikesville’s Seven Mile Market is named in a lawsuit accusing the retailer of negligence for selling listeria-contaminated ice cream to a woman in 2023.

Scary Mommy creator Jill Smokler faces brain cancer with warmth and wit

Apr 13, 2025

Pikesville resident Jill Smokler, who created the popular parenting site Scary Mommy, faces a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.

State’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital gets failure warning

Apr 11, 2025

The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

Hopkins trailblazer scrambles to protect cancer research as Trump cuts hit home

Apr 9, 2025

Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The $1B problem that everyone in Annapolis is worried about

Pamela Wood and Meredith Cohn

Apr 7, 2025

As state lawmakers deal with the next state budget, they know that more work may be left to come if Congress cuts federal funding for the Medicaid health insurance program to pay for federal tax cuts.

Finally, hot people are talking about hot flashes

Leslie Gray Streeter

Apr 7, 2025

AN OPRAH WINFREY SPECIAL: THE MENOPAUSE REVOLUTION - After addressing topics like weight loss and artificial intelligence with in-depth conversations over the past year, Oprah Winfrey is now tackling the inevitable phase of life every woman will face: menopause. MONDAY, MARCH 31 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (Disney/Eric McCandless)
NAOMI WATTS, OPRAH WINFREY, HALLE BERRY, DR. MARY CLAIRE HAVER

Have a disease and hoping for a cure? That’s now at risk with federal cuts, UMB scientists say

Apr 4, 2025

Dr. Mark T. Gladwin, pictured here at the UMB’s BioPark in Baltimore in January, is the dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine who said this week that federal funding cuts threatens work at the university to treat and cure maladies.

Nearly 3,000 jobs cut in Maryland after federal health agencies scale back

Meredith Cohn and Alissa Zhu

Apr 3, 2025

Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stand in line to enter the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on April 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. Layoffs began earlier this week at the Health and Human Service Administration offices after it was announced last week that the Trump Administration plans to cut 10,000 jobs at HHS.

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