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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Shortly after Charles Schwab announced in April that it would soon allow investors to trade crypto directly on its platform, financial advisor Jeff Judge received a question from a 68-year-old client who had always dismissed Bitcoin: Was he “missing something?” the client asked Judge.The client ended up investing $125,000—some 5% of his $2.5 million portfolio—in a crypto exchanged-traded fund (ETF).“Institutional credibility moved the needle in a way that price performance never did,” said Judge, managing partner at Chesapeake Financial Planners in the Baltimore area. “When Fidelity, BlackRock and now Schwab put their name on it, older investors interpret that as a green light, or at least a sign they should ask the question.”Crypto has surged to a $2.6 trillion market cap, up more than 1,000% from April 2020 as retail investors and institutional ones alike have taken an interest in digital currency.Bitcoin’s price jumped from roughly $8,000 per coin in early 2020 to as high as $126,000 per coin in October of last year.

Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, maintain he is not affiliated with MS-13 or any other street gang and argue the U.S. government «has never produced an iota of evidence» that he does. Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on March 12 after working a shift as a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore and picking up his 5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother's house, his lawyers' complaint stated. Abrego Garcia was then sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, which activists say is rife with abuses and where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside. Abrego Garcia's wife later saw him in photos and video from the prison, identifying her husband through his distinctive tattoos and two scars on his head. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials admitted in a court filing on Monday to an «administrative error» in deporting him. The government's acknowledgment sparked immediate uproar from immigration advocates while prompting Vice President JD Vance and other administration officials to repeat the allegation that he's a gang member.

Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is being forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funding. «This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,» the school, a leading institution of scientific research, said in a statement. Hopkins, in Maryland's largest city an hour's drive north of the US capital, is eliminating more than 2,000 positions — 1,975 in projects across 44 countries and 247 jobs in the United States. The cuts impact several key programs, including the university's medical school and school of public health, and Jhpiego, a global health non-profit organization founded at the university more than 50 years ago and which works to improve health in countries worldwide. «Johns Hopkins is immensely proud of the work done by our colleagues in Jhpiego, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Medicine to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world,» the university said.

federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings carried out across multiple agencies. The back-to-back rulings were the most significant blow yet to the effort by Trump and top adviser Elon Musk to drastically shrink the federal bureaucracy. Government agencies face a Thursday deadline to submit plans for a second wave of mass layoffs and to slash their budgets. U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore agreed with 20 Democratic-led states that 18 agencies which had fired probationary employees en masse in recent weeks violated regulations governing the laying off of federal workers. His decision came hours after U.S. District Judge William Alsup during a hearing in San Francisco ordered the reinstatement of probationary employees terminated at the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Interior and the Treasury Department. Alsup said the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the human resources department for federal agencies, had improperly ordered those agencies to fire workers en masse even though it lacked the power to do so.

Syngene International will be in focus on Tuesday after the company announced that it acquired its first biologics facility in the United States from Emergent Manufacturing Operations Baltimore, a unit of Emergent BioSolutions, for $36.5 million. “The new site will increase Syngene’s single-use bioreactor capacity to 50,000L for large molecule discovery, development, and manufacturing services. Additionally, it will provide Syngene’s customers with continuity of supply from its four development and manufacturing facilities located in India and North America, offering services ranging from cell line development, process optimization, and both clinical and commercial supply,” the company said in its press release.

Ben Cleveland has filed for divorce from Kaitlyn Terrell. The two of them tied the knot on July 21, 2022. This comes weeks after Cleveland was taken into custody by police on charges of driving under the influence, People magazine reported.

A power outage at Baltimore-Washington International Airport is causing significant flight delays and other interruptions to air travel

Christmas Day marked a milestone in media history, even if it's likely to be surpassed

Super Bowl LIX finale between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles draws closer, Dallas Cowboys fans have cause for cheer. The reason — Micah Parsons from the squad managed to break into the top five National Football League jersey sales of 2024-25.

Maryland officials have unveiled their designs for replacing Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge almost a year after it collapsed under the weight of a cargo ship that lost power and veered off course

Ethan Holliday, one of baseball's top rising stars, has signed a historic NIL deal with Adidas, becoming the brand's first-ever baseball NIL athlete. An infielder from Stillwater High School, he comes from a baseball dynasty—his father, Matt Holliday, is an MLB legend, and his brother, Jackson Holliday, is a Baltimore Orioles outfielder.

A Major League Baseball panel cut the rights fees owed the Washington Nationals from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network by 20% for each of the final three seasons of the five-year period through 2026, citing a deteriorating cable television market

NFL Pro Bowl rosters have been announced, highlighting the league's top talent. The Baltimore Ravens lead with nine selections, followed by the Detroit Lions with seven, and the Minnesota Vikings with six. Notably, the New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Tennessee Titans, and New Orleans Saints have no players represented. However, the most surprising aspect of this year’s selection is the absence of standout quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield.

Beyoncé teases an announcement on January 14, following the halftime show. Beyoncé hinted after her Christmas Day halftime performance during the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans game that she would make a major announcement in 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Your blood pressure reading probably isn’t as accurate as you think. More often than not, patients and even nurses and doctors are skipping steps that help paint an accurate portrait of someone’s blood pressure.

Right now chestnut enthusiasts are cozying up next to their open fires (or toaster ovens) to roast a holiday snack that has long roots in North America

Police arrested a suspect in the brazen Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after a McDonald’s customer in Altoona, Pennsylvania, spotted a man who officers found with a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush

Jay-Z, Beyonce's massive 2025 tour and Christmas NFL appearance are in jeopardy. The startling allegations may cast doubt on Beyoncé's massive tour scheduled for next year. Jay Z has angrily refuted idiotic allegations that he raped and drugged a 13-year-old girl. According to an anonymous lawsuit, the 55-year-old music mogul and fellow rapper Sean Diddy Combs alternated in the assault, as quoted in a report by The US Sun. On September 7, 2000, an MTV VMAs after-party in New York was reported to have included an unidentified female celebrity. Combs was the target of the October lawsuit, which was resubmitted on Sunday to include Beyoncé's husband, Jay Z, as a defendant.

Netflix, which in May secured the rights to air two National Football League games this Christmas, dropped the surprise announcement after streaming one of the most-watched boxing matchups of all time. The Grammy-winning artist will perform songs from her latest Cowboy Carter album for the first time during a contest between the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens in her hometown. She’s expected to invite “special guests,” Netflix said without elaborating. “Your early Christmas wish has been granted,” it said in a statement.