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Kilmar Abrego Garcia and one of his children in an undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025.
Bulls hat, loitering, an unnamed informant: Why feds say Kilmar Abrego Garcia is gang-connected
Reasons why the feds say Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father wrongfully deported to El Salvador, has ties to the MS-13 gang.
The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Judge rips Maryland Health Department plan for psychiatric bed crisis: ‘This is about people’
An Anne Arundel County judge has ripped the Maryland Department of Health for its presentation of what he described as a woefully inadequate plan to address the state’s psychiatric bed crisis.
University of Maryland, College Park students among a rising number across the country who’ve suddenly lost their ability to legally stay in the U.S.
7 University of Maryland students lose visas amid federal crackdown
They're among a rising number of international students across the country who’ve suddenly lost their ability to legally stay in the U.S.
George Clooney, with a beard and wearing a black jacket, stands in front of a black background.
George Clooney thinks Wes Moore could lead the Democrats
George Clooney told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he thinks Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has what it takes to lead the Democrats.
FILE - As President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, hundreds of new volunteers are sworn in for duty at a ceremony, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
AmeriCorps members who respond to disasters and help nonprofits let go in DOGE cuts
Volunteers were informed Tuesday that they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control.”
The Howard Community College board is set to expand by two members.
Lawmakers hope changes bring more stability, transparency to Howard Community College
After a tumultuous seven months, the Howard Community College board is at full strength and set to expand by two members, with new rules in place to ensure more transparency over its decision making.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia and one of his children in an undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025.
What to know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man ICE mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Abrego Garcia’s deportation, and the fight to bring him back, remains an international topic of discussion — dominating news coverage and attracting the interest of political figures.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, where he arrived regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador won’t let Sen. Van Hollen visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The vice president of El Salvador denied Sen. Chris Van Hollen a face-to-face visit with a Maryland man wrongly deported last month.
TECOLUCA, EL SALVADOR - MARCH 16: In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, view of the inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations, getting off the buses at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Trump's administration deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organizations 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha with only 23 being members of the Mara. Nayib Bukele president of El Salvador announced that his government will receive the alleged members of the gang to be taken to CECOT. On February of 2023 El Salvador inaugurated Latin America's largest prison as part of President Nayib Bukele's plan to fight gangs. (Photo by Salvadoran Government via Getty Images)
Judge finds probable cause Trump administration violated deportation court order
The finding marks an escalation in a battle between the judicial and executive branches over a president’s powers to carry out key White House priorities.
Sen Chris Van Hollen posted a video to social media from the airport before boarding a flight to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
Van Hollen lands in El Salvador, hopes to see Maryland dad wrongly deported
The senator said he plans to meet with government officials to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release.
A construction worker drives a backhoe past the Berkleigh luxury apartment complex in the Greenleigh community of Middle River.
Eastern Baltimore County is changing. Will its representation?
The Baltimore County Council is expanding from seven districts to nine in 2026, after voters approved the change last fall. What that will look like is unclear.
A mural of Freddie Gray is painted on the side of a building by local artist Nether, right, across the street from a makeshift memorial where Gray was arrested Sunday, May 3, 2015, in Baltimore. Baltimore's mayor has lifted a citywide curfew six days after riots were sparked over the death of a Gray who suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody.
Who was Freddie Gray? 4 things to know about a man whose death changed Baltimore
Freddie Gray’s death in police custody sparked unrest in Baltimore and nationwide. But who was the man beyond the headlines?
From left, Moore, Peter Chapman, executive chairman of IonQ, and Hirobe Masahiro, Deputy Director of the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT), National Institute of of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
As Wes Moore sells Maryland to Asia, Trump’s tariffs cast shadow
Recently proposed tariffs on computer chips and other electronics complicate Gov. Wes Moore's hallmark economic initiative.
The Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant occupies a 466-acre site on the Back River in Dundalk.
A new Mr. Trash Wheel? How Baltimore’s wastewater woes led to $1.7M in green projects
A new trash wheel is one of nearly two dozen projects set to receive money through a $1.7 million settlement fund, which Baltimore officials agreed to finance as part of a consent decree with the Maryland Department of the Environment over pollution violations at its wastewater plants.
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: Mother (2nd R) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia holds a picture of her son and his family during a news conference to discuss his son's arrest and deportation at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a news conference to discuss the deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the maximum security prison Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, an incident the Trump administration claims as “an administrative error,” but refuses to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
Planned federal bill would require return of improperly deported people, like Maryland father
A New York City congressman announced he will introduce legislation inspired by a Maryland father Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month.
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses attendees at the International African-American Museum on January 19, 2025 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Joe Biden will speak about Social Security in his return to the national stage
Biden has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, which is typically the tradition for immediate past presidents.
Scenes of Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus
International students file legal challenges over widespread US visa revocations
Actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation.
Kaylee Jones, a student at Annapolis High School, reads from "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" on April 12, 2025 in Annapolis, MD. The book was banned from the Naval Academy library.
In Annapolis, reading Maya Angelou was a small act of rebellion
Eight hours and 15 minutes. That’s how long it takes to read Maya Angelou's “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” out loud. That’s how long a small act of rebellion takes.
The new steel and cement replacement pipe can be seen next to a group of representatives from DPW, Garney Construction and The Baltimore Banner at the bottom of a six-story deep excavation at Lake Montebello on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
Baltimore’s biggest sinkhole has also become a giant money pit
What was once predicted to be a $10 million fix has ballooned to at least $30 million, according to financial documents from the City of Baltimore.
President Donald Trump  meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office.
Salvadoran president: ‘I don’t have the power’ to return wrongly deported Maryland man to US
President Nayib Bukele said he had no way to move the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, out of a prison in El Salvador and back to the United States.
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