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    NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump’s deep cuts in public health research

    Calvin Woodward and Nathan Ellgren, Associated Press
    Jenna Norton, a researcher at the NIH, in a gray jacket and black shirt.
    Maryland teenager to serve one year in prison after writing about school shootings
    A Maryland teenager will serve at least a year in prison after being found guilty of threatening mass violence.
    A Maryland teen will serve at least a year in prison after being found guilty of threatening mass violence.
    These parents are leaving work to stay home with their kids — but not by choice
    Maryland laid-off federal workers have suddenly found themselves in the nation’s oldest job: full-time parenthood.
    Corey Bryce reads a book with her 1-year-old daughter, Julien, inside their Columbia, Maryland home on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Julien has been in an infants & toddlers program since she was about 4 months old, and Bryce says she knows she won’t be able to afford preschool without the money the state plans to funnel into pre-kindergarten education.
    Toddler survives fall from high-rise apartment balcony in Silver Spring, police say
    Montgomery County Police are investigating an incident in which a 2-year-old boy reportedly fell from the 15th floor of an apartment building in Silver Spring and survived.
    Police are investigating after a 2-year-old reportedly fell from a balcony.
    Villains, promises and pageantry — what I learned from 6 Maryland county budgets
    We’re deep into local budget season in Maryland, when decisions are made for spending nearly $28 billion on priorities and problems. Here’s what I learned by listening to hours of budget addresses this spring.
    Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman waits to be introduced on May 1 for his State of the County address in Annapolis.
    7 indicted for series of armed robberies targeting bank customers across 5 Maryland counties
    Seven people were indicted Friday for a series of armed robberies that targeted bank customers across multiple Maryland counties, according to Attorney General Anthony Brown. 
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced Friday the indictment of seven people who allegedly targeted bank customers in a series of armed robberies that spanned five counties.

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    Maryland nonprofits and volunteers ‘devastated’ after AmeriCorps abruptly ends service
    The Trump administration’s dismantling of AmericCorps leaves volunteers without work and Maryland community programs in a lurch.
    Gov. Wes Moore celebrated Volunteer Maryland’s 30th anniversary during an AmeriCorps service event at the Baltimore Community ToolBank in Baltimore City on March 17, 2023.
    Is Maryland the answer to DC’s MAGA woes? Jamie Raskin says maybe.
    When Rep. Jamie Raskin said D.C. should become part of Maryland again, I had to ask. That’ll never happen, right? Then I learned about retrocession.
    The Washington Monument is seen on the mall in Washington would be in Maryland if retrocession were ever to happen.
    Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents opposed to LGBTQ books in schools
    The Supreme Court seemed likely to find that the Montgomery County school system could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections.
    A selection of books featuring LGBTQ characters that are part of a Supreme Court case are pictured, Tuesday, April, 15, 2025, in Washington.
    Maryland’s largest school district heads to the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know.
    Some Montgomery County families want the right to opt kids out of reading inclusive storybooks.
    A selection of books featuring LGBTQ characters that are part of a Supreme Court case
    200,000 people can carry guns in Maryland. Here’s where they are.
    More than 200,000 people have a Maryland permit to carry a handgun — a jump from fewer than 50,000 in 2020.
    Lewis Bracy, a retired federal police officer from Severn, wears his handgun to a protest on Mary 20, 2023. Maryland's 3-year-old handgun license laws have resulted in a fourfold increase of people with carry permits.

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    Man who brought gun to Justice Kavanaugh’s Maryland home pleads guilty to attempted murder
    A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C., nearly three years ago.
    CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND - JUNE 29: Law enforcement officers stand guard as abortion rights activists with Our Rights DC march in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house on June 29, 2022 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Over the last couple months, abortion rights activists have staged protests against the five conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case overturned the 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erased federal protection to abortion. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
    Maryland immigrants voice fear over threats to legal protections amid Trump crackdown
    Of Maryland’s 1 million immigrants, many are under a giant umbrella of temporary student or work visas, as well as humanitarian protections.
    An illustration showing groups of people in various forms of daily life, some are disappearing, one in the center is being erased.
    FDA staff return to crowded offices in Maryland, with broken equipment, missing chairs
    The FDA is the latest agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate.
    he U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus
    What if Biggie, Aaliyah and other music legends were still alive? Local author imagines new ending.
    Maryland author Mark Swartz's "The Music Never Died" imagines a world where some of music's greatest artists live on in intriguing ways.
    An illustration of Notorious B.I.G. and Yoko Ono from Mark Swartz's “The Music Never Died: Tales From the Flipside.”
    Ron Nessen, veteran journalist who was President Ford’s press secretary, dies at 90 in Maryland
    Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died. He was 90.
    White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen in 1974.

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    Ron Nessen, veteran journalist who was President Ford’s press secretary, dies at 90 in Maryland
    Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died. He was 90.
    White House Press Secretary Ronald Nessen in 1974.
    Maryland’s displaced federal workers pack job fair as Trump, Musk slash government
    Hundreds of federal workers packed a job fair in Howard County Tuesday night to rehearse in mock interviews, pose for professional headshots and adapt their often lengthy resumes for the private sector.
    People gather for a federal workers career fair in Howard County on Feb. 26, 2025.
    ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ star Karen Huger sentenced to serve 1 year in jail
    Karen Huger, star of “The Real Housewives of Potomac,” was sentenced to two years in jail, with one year suspended, in her DUI case.
    LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 25:  Karen Huger attends the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)
    Federal spending cuts trigger more than 1,000 Maryland private sector layoffs
    As the Trump administration slashes the budgets of federal agencies, the ripple effects are already being felt in Maryland’s private sector.
    WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump appear during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is to sign an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative," which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government.
    In a constitutional crisis, are Chris Van Hollen’s words enough?
    At every opportunity, U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen has been blunt in talking about the Trump administration’s assault on federal agencies, using descriptions such as “corrupt bargain,” “power grab,” and “coup.”
    U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen speaks during a rally held by Maryland Delegation Members outside of the Social Security Administration Headquarters, in Woodlawn, Monday February 10, 2025. The rally held was for protecting the Integrity of Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid Amid Reports of DOGE Interference.
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