Lawyers for a Maryland woman charged along with her husband in a scheme to sell Navy submarine secrets to a foreign government denied Wednesday that she had contemplated fleeing the United States to avoid arrest. Instead, they said, contempt for then-President Donald Trump was behind the couple's emigration plans.
Wild captain Jared Spurgeon is nearly ready to return from a lower-body injury. In the meantime, outstanding play from the likes of Jonas Brodin, Matt Dumba, Jordie Benn and Jon Merrill have shut down top opposing scorers and sparked seven victories in a row.
Jarred Vanderbilt's percentage is up 27 points, making him less of a target for opposing teams to foul.
The head of Instagram on Wednesday met with deep skepticism on Capitol Hill over new measures the social media platform is adopting to protect young users.
A group of progressive Democrats on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, whose recent comments likening a Muslim member of Congress to a bomb-carrying terrorist they decried as a "bigoted" incitement to violence that puts "an entire group of Americans" in danger.
