Sheryl Stolberg

Maryland’s highest court on Tuesday ordered a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray to testify against five of his fellow officers, clearing the way for the state to move ahead with prosecutions.

Kik goes further than most widely used apps in shielding its users, making it hard to know who is using it — or how.

The proposal is bankrolled by wealthy investors who've spent nearly $25 million to put it on the ballot and sell it to voters. If it passes, they will have exclusive rights to growing commercial marijuana in Ohio.

Armored vehicles lined this battered city’s main thoroughfares and thousands of law enforcement officers and National Guard troops worked to maintain order and enforce a citywide curfew Tuesday night, amid scattered reports of unrest after a day of largely peaceful protests.

The first, and perhaps most painful, call for Kathleen Sebelius to resign as President Barack Obama's health secretary came earlier this month from an old family friend: Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who once boasted of a "special relationship" with Sebelius, forged when he worked for her father-in-law.