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Senate debate on the Iraq war began in earnest Tuesday as Democrats called for troop withdrawals. Democratic leaders introduced an amendment ordering withdrawals by April 30, 2008. Sen. John McCain, just back from Iraq, gave a floor speech saying precipitous withdrawal would be a disaster.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry emerged today from three days of marathon talks with his counterpart in China. He says discussions on how to tackle climate change were 'constructive' but the world's two biggest greenhouse gas polluters had difficulty creating a plan to reduce carbon emissions.

Sarbanes currently represents the 3rd Congressional District, encompassing all of Howard County and parts of Anne Arundel and Carroll counties. He's in his ninth term in Congress.

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns in schools despite heavy protests at the state capitol.

The words “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling” may not mean anything to you if you don’t have a degree in physics, but they're at the core of some groundbreaking research.

Republicans in the House have proposed new legislation that would tie the Obama administration's hands on detainee issues by peppering the defense authorization bill with amendments. The legislation complicates once again the efforts to shutter the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is leaving progressive groups and legal experts alike predicting that the prison may not close at all during the remainder of the president's term.

The battered savings and loan company Washington Mutual has become the latest casualty of the subprime mortgage disaster. Regulators say the bank fell over the edge because in the past week or so more and more customers began pulling their deposits out.

The Roots' drummer discusses the artistry involved in creating a great meal. "I'm more obsessed with the journey ... than the destination," Questlove says. Originally broadcast April 27, 2016.

We asked booksellers across the country to share recommendations for books that you can take with you on vacation — or just to the nearest shade tree.

Hollywood's summer blockbuster season got a $2 billion head start this year from Avengers: Endgame. Now, with summer actually getting under way, how will Tinseltown keep the momentum going?

John Blake's story is about growing up as a Black kid in West Baltimore in the 1980s, learning painful secrets about his white mother and, as he recalls, a ghost.

Baltimore is now in its third consecutive year of steep declines in homicides and nonfatal shootings.

Creating another sore spot for an industry under scrutiny for lack of inclusiveness, Techweek Chicago sends out a party invite featuring scantily clad women in provocative poses, then apologizes.

The suspect in the shootings in Spring, Texas, engaged police in a three-hour standoff before surrendering.

Organizers say 13,000 showed up for the rally, far fewer than had joined previous protests against China's insistence on hand-picking candidates for the territory's next chief executive.

Baltimore County teachers have a lot of questions about what the reopening of schools in September might look like.TABCO, the Teachers Association of…

Jennifer Fox's HBO film, The Tale,is based on the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. Justin Chang reviewsBlacKkKlansmen.Julian Adlerand Judge VictoriaPratt discuss alternatives to jail.

Seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was shot and killed Sunday in Houston while riding in a car with her mom and siblings. The suspect is still at large, and police haven't yet determined a motive.

Laws that ban tapping on a phone while driving have become common, but in Hawaii, a new escalation targets pedestrians.

The Federal Election Commission sets disclosure rules for ads that discuss candidates. Many of the ads in question dealt only with issues.