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Baltimore brings out sharpshooters to reduce deer population

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Baltimore's Leakin Park will be closed off during the evenings and overnights until March 19 as sharpshooters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture kill deer to reduce the city's deer population.Baltimore City officials say deer are overpopulated in the city. The city's deer management program will target three parks this month.Sharpshooters will kill off more than 100 deer in Leakin Park. The park will be closed from 4 p.m. until 7 a.m. on March 9 through March 19.Volunteers and the Baltimore City Police Department will help to clear the park so

FDA reverses stance on autism drug

Packers add Benjamin St-Juste while moving on from another cornerback in Nate Hobbs, AP sources say

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WNBA and players' union to meet as CBA deadline nears to get season started on time, AP source says

The WNBA and the players' union are set to meet Tuesday to continue discussions on reaching a new collective bargaining agreement as a deadline to get the season started on time is at hand, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations. The meeting comes on a day that the league has said at least a handshake agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement would need to be done to start the season as scheduled. The two sides exchanged

Smartmatic says Trump's 'campaign of retribution' is driving criminal prosecution

Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war

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Alabama governor commutes death sentence of inmate whose accomplice fired fatal shot

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed. Ivey reduced Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole, marking just the second time the Republican governor has granted clemency to a death row inmate since taking office in 2017. Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991 shooting death of a customer, Doug Battle, during a store robbery. But Burton had left the building before anoth

US intelligence community ramps up warnings of possible retaliatory attacks by Iran

Gifts from top 50 US philanthropists jumped to $22.4B in 2025 − Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates and the estate of Paul Allen lead a list of the biggest givers

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How the special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene is testing the power of Trump’s endorsement

President Donald Trump’s sway over the Republican Party faces a fresh test Tuesday with a free-for-all special election in northwest Georgia to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Trump ally-turned-critic who vacated her seat in Congress in January.Clay Fuller, a former prosecutor and Air Force veteran, won Trump’s endorsement from a field of nearly 20 candidates. But the presidential seal of approval, which Trump delivered last month on a visit to the district, has done little to streamline the remarkably crowded contest.“We’re the candidate that’s going to have his back on Capitol

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What we know about the 2 terror suspects accused of tossing makeshift bombs near the NYC mayor’s home

Investigators are digging deeper into the backgrounds of two terror suspects accused of tossing makeshift bombs at a protest outside the New York City mayor’s home in what authorities describe as an ISIS-inspired attack over the weekend.Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, both of Pennsylvania, are accused of trying to use improvised explosive devices at an anti-Islam demonstration and a counterprotest near Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home Saturday. No device exploded.When speaking to investigators, both suspects cited ISIS, a terrorist group that has seen a resurgence in recent years, accor

Why emergency oil releases won’t fix this crisis

Judge disqualifies trio of lawyers tapped to lead New Jersey's federal prosecutor's office

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FDA approves leucovorin for rare genetic condition, but not for autism

The prescription drug leucovorin is getting a label update, but it’s not what that the US Food and Drug Administration suggested during a White House briefing in September, when officials touted the drug as a potential treatment for thousands of children with autism.On Tuesday, the FDA approved the high-dose B vitamin — a treatment long used to counteract the side effects of chemotherapy — for cerebral folate deficiency in the receptor 1 gene, a genetic condition that’s estimated to affect only about 1 in 1 million people. Fewer than 50 cases have ever been identified worldwide. FDA Co

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Seventh US service member killed in Iran war brought home in dignified transfer

The seventh US service member killed in the conflict with Iran — a 26-year-old from Kentucky — was brought home Monday evening in a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, from Glendale, Kentucky, died Sunday after sustaining injuries the week prior in an attack by Iran on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. Pennington was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, a unit within the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command.Vice President JD Vance joined top military officials, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chi

Alabama governor grants clemency to death row inmate who was accomplice to murder, sparing him from execution this week

Kavanaugh and Jackson appearance gets testy when emergency docket comes up

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New data shows asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table.Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 at first seemed a serious threat to Earth, with scientists estimating as much as a 3.1% chance of it impacting our planet on December 22, 2032. A series of observations from ground- and space-based telescopes quickly helped rule that out, but by June 2025, a new concern emerged: a 4.3% chance YR4 would slam into the moon instead.While Earth wouldn’t face any significant physical danger if th

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Iran war: 4 big questions that help clarify the future of the Middle East

The war that the U.S. and Israeli governments launched against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, is unprecedented in its scope across the Middle East. With the Arab Gulf states under Iranian attack, and Israel targeting Iran’s militia ally Hezbollah, even experts on the Middle East like me cannot predict the war’s course and especially its likely political consequences. Still, to better understand this complex situation, I am paying particular attention to four major questions. How these specific issues play out will shed light on how this war might end and what it will mean for Iran, the rest of t

‘A lot of sleepless nights’: Why the war in Iran might cost Iraq a berth in the 2026 World Cup

Canadian police investigate gunfire at US consulate in Toronto

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Judge scolds Live Nation and Justice Department for secret settlement talks

A federal judge scolded attorneys for the Justice Department and Live Nation for secretly negotiating a settlement to resolve allegations the ticket giant operated as a monopoly while the trial was underway.Judge Arun Subramanian called the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Omar Assefi, and Live Nation’s chief executive, Michael Rapino, into court Tuesday to answer questions after he was blindsided by the deal.On Monday the Justice Department and Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, announced they reached a settlement they said will benefit consumers by giving them more

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Oil prices dive as Trump says Iran war will end ‘very soon’

Oil prices fell sharply Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran would be over “very soon,” though they remain volatile and well above their levels before the conflict started.Also on Tuesday, the world’s biggest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, warned of the war’s potentially “catastrophic consequences” for oil markets if flows don’t resume through the vital Strait of Hormuz.Later, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Pentagon briefing that the war with Iran would not end until “the enemy is totally and decisively defeated,” adding that this would