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    Is owning a home better than renting? It’s complicated.
    Past generations were led to believe that buying a home vs. renting was the ultimate sign of adulthood. Now, that line of thinking is shakier.
    The Declaration of Donald Trump may start the next American revolution
    On Independence Day, this is the Declaration of Donald Trump: a vision of America remade in the image of his skinflint cruelty.
    President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington.
    Arms on the Farm: Breaking down Orioles pitching prospect Trey Gibson
    Gibson, a strikeout artist, is carving up Double-A just two years after signing as an undrafted free agent.
    Since the start of 2024, Trey Gibson leads all Orioles pitching prospects with at least 100 innings with 12.49 strikeouts per nine innings.
    Coco Gauff serves Maryland sisters a tennis dream they can chase
    Even though tennis player Coco Gauff lost Wimbledon in London this week, one Maryland family will continue to be inspired by her, from Reisterstown to Paris.
    United States' Coco Gauff celebrate after winning the final match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland-Garros against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus n Paris, Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
    Maryland’s police shooting reports reveal pain, and a path forward
    What if Maryland’s new level of scrutiny in police shootings could do more than provide a second look at right or wrong? What if they could prevent more police shootings?
    Donnell Rochester died after being shot by Baltimore Police Officer Connor Murray on February 19, 2022. His body camera caught the moment before he fired the fatal shots. Another officer is on the sidewalk ahead of Murray.
    Kyle Goon: With the force of his personality, D. Wayne Lukas made the Preakness feel important
    Even into his late 80s, the legendary trainer made the middle leg of the Triple Crown into an event worth talking about. His powerful presence will be missed.
    D. Wayne Lukas, right, watches The Chick Lang Stakes on Preakness Day at Pimlico Race Course earlier this year.
    Jon Meoli: How the Orioles rebuilt pitcher Trevor Rogers from the ground up
    Rogers has regained a spot in the Orioles’ rotation and looked as close to the All-Star he was in 2021 as he has in years.
    Trevor Rogers has posted a 1.62 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 16 2/3 innings with the Orioles.
    Black women with cancer die at higher rates. To heal them, we have to hear them.
    The American Cancer Society’s VOICES of Black Women survey is seeking 100,000 participants' stories and experiences to close disparities.
    Dr. Tonya Webb, left, is a part of the American Cancer Society's VOICES of Black Women project, which hopes to survey 100,000 Black women about their medical and life experiences in hopes of eliminating disparities.
    Commentary: Supreme Court’s ruling on LGBTQIA+ books is a slippery, hateful slope
    The Supreme Court’s decision to let Montgomery County parents exempt their children from public school lessons using LGBTQIA+ books is a subtle tool of hate.
    WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 22: Protesters in support of LGBTQ+ rights and against book bans demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. Supreme Court Justices heard arguments for the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor where a coalition of parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, say that a school requiring their children to participate in classes that include LGBTQ themes violates their religious beliefs and thus their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion.
    Jon Meoli: Inside Orioles top prospect Samuel Basallo’s offensive and defensive development at Norfolk
    With Adley Rutschman and Maverick Handley hitting the injured list within the last week and the Orioles opting for journeymen deputies rather than Basallo, the 20-year-old backstop’s development has come into focus of late.
    Baltimore Orioles prospect Samuel Basallo warms up during the team’s spring training practice on February 20, 2024.
    My friends’ names are still in the wind, 7 years after their murder
    My friends, murdered seven years ago in Annapolis, find me where they do every morning, shortly after I wake and remember to be grateful that I’m alive. Then they find me when I least expect it.
    Wreaths are laid at a ceremony memorializing the victims of the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting on June 28, 2023, in Annapolis. No ceremony is planned this year, only private gatherings of friends and family.
    Kyle Goon: Even as he’s punished, Justin Tucker refuses to be accountable
    It’s difficult to take Justin Tucker’s claims of innocence seriously when he’s not even willing to fight to clear his name.
    Former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker maintains his innocence — but he’s not willing to fight to prove it.
    Olympic and civil rights icon John Carlos welcomes you to the revolution
    Carlos accepts his role as an icon and a pioneer, but refuses to believe it makes him different or more significant in spirit than others.
    At left, John Carlos speaks at the 50th anniversary of his Olympics experience in San Jose, California, in 2018. At right, Peter Norman, Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968.
    Kyle Goon: NFL owners love saving money more than winning, and fans should be furious
    A memo obtained by an investigative podcast shows the lengths NFL owners will collaborate to keep salaries down instead of competing. Lamar Jackson got caught in the crosshairs.
    Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie have built consistently competitive teams. For too many other owners, that seems like an afterthought.
    Kyle Goon: The Orioles are right to delay Samuel Basallo’s debut. It should be worth the wait.
    The Orioles’ top prospect beckons after the big league club experiences a sudden rash of injuries at catcher. But the 20-year-old deserves to come up when he’s ready, not just when the team has a positional need.
    Catching prospect Samuel Basallo watches his teammates play a Grapefruit League game against the Detroit Tigers in February.
    For a teacher accused of abusing students, ‘not guilty’ doesn’t equal public exoneration
    When a teacher accused of sexually abusing students is found not guilty, the pain won’t go away easily. Not for the teacher, the student, their families or the community.
    From left, Matthew Schlegel’s attorneys Andrew Harvey, Peter O’Neill, and Patrick Seidel speak to reporters outside the Annapolis courthouse last week.
    Trump couldn’t resist the American temptation. We’re at war again.
    War is the American temptation, the one every president since the end of World War II has faced. Now it's Donald Trump's war.
    President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Washington.
    Alas, poor FEMA. We knew you well.
    President Donald Trump plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. In the future, if you want help after a disaster, you’ll have to call him. How do you think that’s going to go?
    Waterlogged cars sit in the flooded parking lot of Westernport Elementary School after a catastrophic storm hit the area on Tuesday.
    Tons of money. Little guidance. How Maryland’s fastest sprinter navigated the dizzying world of high school NIL deals.
    Elise Cooper of Owings Mills became the first high school sprinter to sign with Puma in February. It was anything but a smooth process.
    New Town sprinter Elise Cooper stands before practice with the Owings Mills Track Club at New Town High School in Owings Mills, MD on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
    Juneteenth is a celebration of everyone knowing the truth. We need that desperately.
    Juneteenth is the commemoration of when the last enslaved Black people in Texas found out they were free. But, like now, the truth was irrevelevant without the knowledge.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 19: Members of the U.S. Colored Troops and Buffalo Soldiers, living historians and re-enactors from Maryland, Georgia, Massachusetts and other states, prepare to march in the Juneteenth People's Parade on June 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. The first federal holiday to be established in almost 40 years, the Juneteenth National Independence Day marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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