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The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War.

Few things separate Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen. Their offices often put out joint news releases touting their accomplishments together. Not much, it seems, has separated the senior senator from his younger colleague. Except Benjamin Netanyahu.

The United States Tennis Association named its Olympic team, and Marylander Frances Tiafoe was one of the noticeable omissions.

Despite mischaracterizations about the encampment at Johns Hopkins University protesting the war in Gaza, what actually took place was peaceful and constructive, Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says.

Despite polarization and unrest on college and university campuses, the institutions can find ways to make constructive use of that conflict, say the University of Baltimore's president and a professor of public and international affairs.

Federal prosecutors allege Peter Ajak was seeking to overthrow the government of South Sudan to take power.

Her condition was shared after weeks of speculation on social media about her whereabouts and health since she was hospitalized in January.

I don’t know where Princess Catherine is. But as a reporter, I know the royals are handling the PR around this hot mess express all wrong. Just ask Jack Ryan.

U.S. officials are revising their preliminary findings on what happened to two Navy SEALs who died during a mission to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen.

An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two Maryland residents, including a defector from Iran.

Attorney General Anthony Brown has ended the suspension of Zainab Chaudry from her position on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention following outrage over her anti-Israeli social media posts.

With the death of his brother during Israel’s bombing of Gaza, a Palestinian American says he fears for the lives of other family members there.

Ever since the Israel-Hamas War erupted into an international crisis, its tremors have reverberated through families of the Jewish and Palestinian diasporas all the way to Maryland.

Without reliable access to food, water and electricity, Palestinian civilians now are subjected to intensified Israeli bombing as the latest threat to their survival, journalist Eman Mohammed says.

For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

Rondell Henry, 32, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty in August to attempting to perform an act of violence at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis agreed to sentence Henry to the jail time that he already has served since his March 2019 arrest.

Omer Balva, of Rockville, was killed near the Israel-Lebanon border by an antitank missile fired by the militant group Hezbollah, according to The Washington Post.

“There is no safety in Gaza. I feel defenseless knowing something might happen and I have no power to stop it," a founder of the Palestinian Community of Metro DC said.

As the country marks National Hispanic Heritage Month through Oct. 15, the notion held by some that one has to speak Spanish to be considered authentically Latino in America is controversial and evokes painful feelings for many.

The puppet brings people together through cultural celebrations in neighborhoods where refugees have built communities.