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    This undated photograph released by the U.S. military’s Central Command shows what it is described as the vessel that carried Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen’s Houthi in the Arabian Sea. U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)
    US military revises account of what happened to Navy SEAL from Maryland who died in Arabian Sea
    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.
    The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building is seen Friday, June 9, 2023, in Washington. 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 people, including a defector from Iran, who had fled to the United States. The criminal case unsealed Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, is part of what Justice Department officials have described as a troubling trend of transnational repression, in which operatives from countries including Iran and China single out dissidents and defectors for campaigns of harassment, intimidation and sometimes violence.
    DOJ charges Iranian and two Canadians in murder-for-hire plot to kill 2 Maryland residents on US soil
    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.
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown previously said the commission “must serve as a model for the entire State on how to respond to incidents of hate and bias.”
    AG reinstates Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response member after anti-Israeli posts
    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.
    Shown is Shaaban Alsawada. His brother, Adnan, says he died from injuries he suffered after an Israeli missile struck a building near a family home. After Shaaban suffered shrapnel wounds, other brothers rushed him to the hospital. But the emergency room was understaffed and overwhelmed with the number of wounded, Adnan says.
    Commentary: Palestinians endure continuing loss of lives from Israeli attacks in Gaza
    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.
    Gabi discusses her impending military service with her mom, Jamie, in their home on Oct. 19, 2023. Jamie has a folder of baby photos of Gabi to share.
    Maryland Jewish communities mobilize aid, volunteers for Israel Defense Forces
    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.
    Baraa Azam is shown lying in front of his destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike flattened it at the Al Zaitoun area in Gaza City. Baraa was slightly injured during the air strike. His mother says he keeps asking, "How will the bus of school manage to pick me up with all the rubble around?"
    Commentary: Israel, an occupying power, further jeopardizes Palestinians’ survival
    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.
    Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.
    Commentary: We all must stand against terrorist attacks, antisemitism and Islamophobia
    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.
    FILE - The terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport stands behind a Metrorail station sign, Nov. 2, 2022, in Chantilly, Va. A federal judge on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State-inspired attacks at the airport and at a shopping and entertainment complex in the Washington, D.C., area.
    Judge orders release of Maryland man accused of plotting IS-inspired truck attack near DC
    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.
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    Maryland man serving in Israel Defense Forces killed by Hezbollah missile
    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.
    Aref Ramadan looks at photos of his deceased relatives who were victims of attacks on Gaza last week. Ramadan says his family uses social media to communicate but service is sparse. He has not heard from his living relatives in over three days.
    Maryland Muslim leaders say ‘innocent lives deserve to be protected’ in Gaza
    “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.
    Elisa Milan, owner of the Empanada Lady, stands for a portrait inside her Baltimore store.
    Hablas español? Baltimore-area Latinos discuss what speaking Spanish means to them
    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.
    Little Amal, a twelve-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, visits City Hall to meet Mayor Brandon Scott and the children of Baltimore on September 15, 2023.
    Little Amal brings joy, hopeful message during stop in Baltimore
    The puppet brings people together through cultural celebrations in neighborhoods where refugees have built communities.
    FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Majid Khan, the onetime courier for al-Qaida is a free man after serving more than 16 years at Guantanamo, and surviving torture at notorious CIA "black sites." The Pentagon announced the release of Pakistan citizen Khan on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Khan is now in Belize, after that nation reached agreement with the Biden administration to take him.
    US releases Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan, who grew up in Baltimore
    The transfer of Khan ended an imprisonment that included torture at clandestine CIA sites and 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
    CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JANUARY 10: Prince Harry's memoir Spare is offered for sale at a Barnes & Noble retail store on January 10, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. The book went on sale in the United States today.
    Prince Harry’s memoir and his unchosen pop culture status
    Prince Harry's “Spare” raises questions about fame, royalty and the media.
    FILE - Pope Benedict XVI attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005. He was the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps and Mozart piano concertos to the public glare and majesty of Vatican pageantry. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI and was thrust into the footsteps of his beloved and charismatic predecessor, he said he felt a guillotine had come down on him. The Vatican announced Saturday Dec. 31, 2022 that Benedict, the former Joseph Ratzinger, had died at age 95.
    Benedict XVI, reluctant pope who chose to retire, dies at 95
    The Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI died Saturday at his home in the Vatican at age 95.
    A Native American celebration of food, culture, and heritage took place at the 46th Annual BAIC PowWow at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium on November 19, 2022.
    ‘The true meaning is kind of hard’: How American Indians in Maryland observe Thanksgiving
    For Maryland’s American Indian population, Thanksgiving can be a complicated — and oftentimes painful — reminder of lost lives, land and culture.
    Atman Smith, left, and his brother Ali Smith, two of the authors of Let Your Light Shine, stand in front of their Baltimore office. The book comes out Tuesday, October 18.
    Baltimore trio stresses value of yoga, meditation in new book
    The trio launched their company Holistic Life Foundation in 2001 after meeting at College Park. Since then, they have taught the benefits of yoga and meditation to more than 50,000 people.
    An illustration of John Clauser, one of the Nobel Prize in Physics winners for 2022. The illustration in black and gold on a white background shows a smiling white man with a crew neck shirt.
    Baltimore Poly grad John Clauser wins Nobel Prize in physics
    Clauser, a 1960 Poly grad, would spend time in his father’s lab at Johns Hopkins.
    Queen Elizabeth II in London in 2011.
    Queen Elizabeth’s death: What happened to civility?
    The challenge for those of us who engage with social media is how to introduce facts that expose someone's flaws while maintaining civility.
    HM Queen Elizabeth II is greeted by children on her walk from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center mission control to a reception in the center’s main auditorium May 8, 2007 in Greenbelt, Maryland. The queen is on the last of a six-day visit to the U.S with her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
    ‘It’s like your dearest great-aunt has passed’: British Marylanders consider the impact of Queen Elizabeth’s death
    Britons with Maryland ties talk about the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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