Investigations

A shooter gunned down two young people outside D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum as law enforcement officials and researchers warn about lone wolf attacks. News4’s Ted Oberg reports.

The Chesapeake Bay is the healthiest it’s been in a long time, according to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The center’s 2024 Report Card gave the bay a C+, a grade it hasn’t received since 2002. But conservationists and advocates told the News4 I-Team they’ve never experienced anything like the chaos and pr...

Plans for EV charging stations in Maryland and Virginia are on hold as Trump administration officials review Biden-era allocations.

A district judge ordered the Trump administration not to deport two Maryland moms recently detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The women are part of a class action lawsuit just filed by several immigrant advocacy groups, who say the women were held longer than allowed in Baltimore holding cells under what they called “inhuma...

Jack Brooks’ family has been in the Maryland blue crab business on the Eastern Shore since 1890, running what they say is the oldest working crab-processing plant in the world. But even as he hands off the business to his son, Brooks said he isn’t sure how much longer they can hang on. “There may be one or two survivors,…

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson told Investigative Reporter Ted Oberg why he doesn’t like the proposed Commanders stadium deal as it is.

The tidal wave of President Donald Trump’s executive orders ripped through the federal government within hours of his inauguration. He established the Department of Government Efficiency, took aim at federal workers and protections for the transgender community, and pardoned Americans convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on his behalf. As Trump ...

Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee continue demanding more answers from President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next U.S. attorney for D.C. — and now they want him to answer in person. The News4 I-Team’s Ted Oberg reports it comes as NBC and News4 obtained Ed Martin’s answers to dozens of questions from committee members intended...

President Donald Trump’s pick to become the next U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, is in the midst of a contentious U.S. Senate confirmation process. Martin, who has served as interim U.S. attorney since Trump took office, faces questions about his truthfulness, his representation of Jan. 6 defendants as a private defense attor...

What really happens inside the Vatican before a new pope is chosen? In this episode of ‘4 More Context,’ NBC News Vatican analyst George Weigel reveals what the College of Cardinals is really discussing ahead of the next papal conclave. We cover the Vatican’s financial crisis, secretive power dynamics, global politics—including the infl...

“If you’re not interacting with folks day in and day out, it’s really hard to actually understand what’s going on in the community,” one resident with questions about Councilmember Ingrid Watson said

Three days before Kristi Noem’s handbag was stolen at a Washington restaurant, another woman had her purse taken in a similar manner, records show.

The News4 I-Team found six different nonprofit groups have spent more than $7 million airing ads on D.C. television stations promoting President Donald Trump and issues important to him since Inauguration Day,  according to public filings available online.  Under federal regulations, the groups have no obligation to disclose the...