News for May 18, 2025

Baltimore County health officials warned people to stay out of waterways near the Dundalk Pumping Station after storm damage led to a sewage overflow.

Palmer Luckey is trying to remake the U.S. military by building Anduril into a defense products company focused on autonomous, AI-powered weapons.

China’s Ministry of State Security is using spying, pressure, and online monitoring to recruit people in the U.S. and control Chinese nationals abroad.

House Republicans moved President Donald Trump’s budget package forward again after conservatives briefly stalled it over deeper spending cuts.

Joe Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and he and his family are weighing treatment options.

On “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s positions on Russia-Ukraine talks, Venezuela, Gaza, South Africa, and Iran as President Donald Trump faces growing pressure at home and abroad.

A federal judge ordered Health and Human Services to restore a coal miner health program and reinstate layoffs it had made in West Virginia.

The FBI says a deadly bombing outside a California fertility clinic was an act of terrorism tied to Guy Edward Bartkus’s anti-natalist beliefs.

Mike Pence criticized Donald Trump’s tariffs and some foreign policy moves in a broad interview, while also praising parts of the administration.

Worcester police union leaders said officers acted properly and only moved in to keep order during a chaotic ICE arrest of a Brazilian mother and the crowd that gathered around it.

Pope Leo XIV used his inaugural Mass to call for unity, speak against poverty and abuse of the planet, and meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.