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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Republicans are opposing the bipartisan border deal because they are “scared to death” of former President Donald Trump. Schumer said, “It’s a turning point. History is going to look over our shoulders and say did we rise to the occasion. To his credit Mitch McConnell did, but too many Republicans including Speaker Johnson are just scared to death of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has said he wants chaos. Donald Trump has said, well, wait till I become president. That will take at least a year. Ukraine could...

CHARLES CO. (WBFF) — Police say a guardian arrived in a stolen Hyundai to pick up teens who were arrested for auto theft in Charles County. Officers arrested four juveniles and two adults who were traveling together in two stolen Hyundai vehicles, said Charles County Police Department. ... Eventually, the guardian's stolen car was recovered after nearly hitting an officer, said the department. Carlisa Monnae Blackeney, Mahkiyh McQuinn-Woodly, who are both 18 years old, and a girl were arrested and charged with theft, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, providing a false name, and rogue and vagabond.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in, Hubble Space Telescope scientists reported on Wednesday. Most monster black holes lurk at the heart of massive galaxies, slurping up matter from the galactic center with a pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. But a team of European astronomers reported in the journal Nature that a particular black hole some 5 billion light-years away has no evidence of a host galaxy. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year. The...