FBI Director Christopher Wray says the U.S. needs “a whole lot more from Mexico” in order to shut down the cartels and stop the flow of precursors into the U.S., as a new president was just elected to serve as the country’s top leader. Wray met Tuesday with the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies to make his case on the department’s request of...

State agencies in Maryland will be required to submit a plan to help address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, under an executive order signed by Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday. The plan calls for all state agencies to submit a report to the governor by Nov. 1 showing how they will help the state meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2031 to 60%...

Longtime New Jersey state assemblyman Herb Conaway won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district on Tuesday, setting him up to face a Republican challenger in November. Conaway served in the Garden State’s legislature since 1998. A late April survey by Public Policy Polling found Conaway to be the runaway favorite to win the race. He won a crowded five-way primary race for the seat that’s...