January 7, 2016
The House voted Wednesday to repeal most of Obamacare, sending legislation to President Barack Obama for the first time that would dismantle his biggest domestic policy achievement. The 240-181 House vote, following Senate passage of the bill Dec. 3, won’t …
December 3, 2015
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to repeal the core of Obamacare, bringing Congress closer to sending legislation to President Barack Obama for the first time that would dismantle his signature domestic achievement. Congressional Republicans won’t succeed in undoing the Affordable …
November 24, 2014
U.S. House Republicans sued President Barack Obama’s administration over implementation of the 2010 healthcare law, saying the president exceeded his authority by delaying part of the program. The complaint filed yesterday in Washington federal court said the president unlawfully postponed …
October 30, 2014
A NASA advisory panel said earlier this year that inadequate funding jeopardized the safety of commercial space cargo shipments, such as the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. mission that exploded this week over Virginia. In its annual report released in January, …
November 1, 2013
The U.S. government is studying whether it can scour social media websites for clues about potential risks from workers such as Edward Snowden and the Washington Navy Yard shooter. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked government secrets, …
September 13, 2013
Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him permanently incapacitated. The $17.5 million Ellison and his family received in a malpractice …
October 4, 2010
Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned at a Crofton …
September 28, 2010
Maryland’s highest court has upheld a state law that limits the amount of money people can receive for suffering in lawsuits. Judges on the Court of Appeals ruled against the parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned at a Crofton …
June 28, 2010
A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury found the state of Maryland and a truck driver liable Thursday for roughly $2 million after the August 2007 death of an inmate who was killed while picking up trash along Interstate 495. …
April 30, 2010
The family of a paramedic who died in a 2008 Medevac helicopter crash in Maryland is suing the federal government for $15 million. The attorney for flight paramedic Mickey Lippy’s family said that Lippy’s wife and young daughter deserve restitution …