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Here is what officials are saying about the shooting at a Rite Aid distribution center Thursday morning in Harford County. Police say temporary worker Snochia Moseley, 26, fatally shot three co-workers and injured three others before killing herself. Read more »

Maryland's Democratic congressional delegation has asked CSX Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer James Foote for a status report on the proposed Howard Street Tunnel project in Baltimore Read more »

Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are asking the head of the railroad company CSX about its plans to improve a tunnel in Baltimore that would allow more containers to be shipped from the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore, a move that could reduce the truck traffic coming through Frederick. Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly was joined by Representatives Steny H. Hoyer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, John Sarbanes, Don Beyer, John Delaney, Anthony G. Brown and Jamie Raskin in sending a letter to congressional leadership urging them to reject President Trump’s plan to cancel a scheduled pay increase for federal workers. Read more »

The president’s planned pay freeze for civilian federal employees next year is earning more criticism from some members Congress. House Democrats in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia said they’re rejecting the president’s plans to cancel a statutorily-set 2.1 percent pay raise for civilian employees in 2019. They’re urging congressional leadership to at least take on the Senate’s proposed 1.9 percent pay raise next year. Read more »

Democratic members of the House representing districts in and around Washington, D.C., wrote a letter to House and Senate leadership Sept. 5, urging them to counteract the president’s intent to freeze federal pay for 2019. Read more »

President Donald Trump may have called for a pay raise freeze for civilian federal workers, but that does not necessarily mean it will happen. Federal workers rely on an old government formula to determine what their automatic pay raise will be each year. In that process, the President also reserves the right to step in and come up with his own directive as to how much more federal workers deserve in pay. However, Congress can essentially override the President and determine their own financial solution. Read more »

White House officials, including President Trump, met with top officials from the FBI and General Services Administration (GSA) before the GSA's announcement in February that the FBI headquarters would remain in Washington, D.C., according to a new watchdog report. Read more »

U.S. General Services Administration official overseeing plans for a new FBI headquarters delivered incomplete — and possibly misleading — testimony to a congressional committee about the White House’s input, according to an inspector general’s report released Monday. Read more »

Area lawmakers are demanding that the General Services Administration reverse its decision to keep FBI headquarters in D.C. by demolishing the J. Edgar Hoover building and constructing a new building at the site on Pennsylvania Avenue at 9th Street. Read more »