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12/11/2025

The Maryland Zoo welcomed 8 baby African penguins to its family. On Monday, the zoo announced the first two names of the baby African penguins: Kiwi and Cayenne.

📷: The Maryland Zoo

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12/11/2025

Jennifer Homendy, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), is speaking out against section 373 of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. If passed by Congress, military training and operations would be allowed to fly in the crowded D.C. airspace without transmitting their location.

That's the way things were on and before Jan. 29, when 67 people died in the midair collision over the Potomac River.

Max Marcilla breaks down the proposed changes on Sunrise on The Hill.

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12/11/2025

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that immigration officials immediately release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man who is now back in the United States and faces criminal charges.

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12/11/2025

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is blasting proposed changes that could allow military helicopters to once again fly in the airspace of DCA, less than a year after a midair collision that killed 67 people.

“This is a significant, significant safety step back,” said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the NTSB. “This is shameful, it is shameful.”

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12/11/2025

A former Harford County Sheriff's Office detective pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting two children and is facing years in federal prison.

12/11/2025

BREAKING: After a man's body was found in a body of water in Fairfax County, police are investigating the incident.

BREAKING: After a man’s body was found in a body of water in Fairfax County, police are investigating the incident.

12/11/2025

On the campaign trail last October, President Trump promised to let his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “go wild on health.” A year later, that promise is being fulfilled.

On the campaign trail last October, President Trump promised to let his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “go wild on health.” A year later, that promise is being fulfilled. Ke…

12/11/2025

The details that led up to the shooting remain limited, and it is unclear if a suspect is in custody. 94-year-old Fariece Altice says this is a shock because this is a nice neighborhood.

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12/11/2025

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an “inappropriate relationship with a staff member.”

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an “inappropriate relationship with a st…

12/11/2025

The high school completion rate has risen to new heights in West Virginia.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — The high school completion rate has risen to new heights in West Virginia. West Virginia State Superintendent Michele Blatt says last year’s graduation rates …

12/11/2025

Al Otro Lado claims the database poses “grave concerns of political targeting and professional intimidation at a time when the administration is openly escalating its attacks on immigrant adv…

12/11/2025

Amid intensifying scrutiny over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, questions are emerging over who in the Trump administration’s chain of command is legally on the h…