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Maryland lawmakers on Friday headed toward a final vote on the state's $63 billion budget legislation for the budget year starting July 1; it includes some tax and fee increases.
Some House Democrats unveiled a bill to rename a Florida federal prison after former President Donald Trump in response to a similar bill from GOP colleagues.
A fire was reported Friday outside the third-floor office of independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in Burlington, Vermont. Moderate fire damage was reported, but no injuries were reported.
Republicans in the House and Senate are hammering President Biden for taking a harsher stance against Israel in the wake of an IDF airstrike that killed seven humanitarian aid workers.
Former President Trump and his legal team have filed a motion requesting that Judge Juan Merchan be recused from the trial stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into alleged hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election due to his daughter's Democrat-affiliated political work.
President Biden visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week collapsed on Friday, his first since a cargo struck the bridge.