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    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    In a still from a video captured by her daughter, Elsy Noemi Berrios is detained by ICE agents after being forcibly removed from her car while on her way to work in March.
    Westminster mother arrested by ICE on viral video slated for deportation hearing
    In the video, Berrios’ daughter pleaded for the ICE officers to leave her mother alone, just before one agent shattered the car door window and placed the mother in handcuffs.
    President Donald Trump  meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador
    El Salvador’s president says he won’t release Maryland man back to the US
    Trump administration officials emphasized that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that U.S. has no say in his future.
    Denise Joseph grabs the mail from her mailbox, in Waldorf, Charles County, Md., Thursday, April 10, 2025.
    Trump’s federal worker cuts are destabilizing the nation’s 2 richest Black counties
    Businesses across Charles County and neighboring Prince George’s County brace for the impact of Trump's federal cuts.
    Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville
    US quiet on mistakenly deported Maryland man, despite Supreme Court decision
    The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month.
    Gov. Wes Moore smiles as he departs a Central Japan Railway Company SCMAGLEV train Saturday, April 12, 2025. "Wow" is how he described the experience, a 311 MPH futuristic train ride.
    Gov. Wes Moore kicks off Asia trade trip with maglev train ride: ‘This is the future’
    Moore needed one word to summarize the experience: “Wow.”
    Some students wait for a shuttle while others walk past the Johns Hopkins University sign welcoming people to the Homewood Campus from Charles Street in Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.
    ‘Several dozen’ Johns Hopkins student visas revoked
    Days earlier, the number at Johns Hopkins University was closer to 12.
    President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Maryland schools plan to comply with federal DEI demands
    Maryland schools are expected to send a letter to the federal education department saying they are complying with civil rights laws.
    Community partners held a press conference and rally to demand Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return back home in Maryland on April 4, 2025.
    US says it needs more time to provide information on mistakenly deported Maryland man
    Attorneys for the government said they haven’t had enough time to review the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
    Ksenia Karelina walks with her fiancé, professional boxer Chris van Heerden, as she arrives Thursday, April 10, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    Ex-ballerina with Baltimore County ties returns to US after Russia prisoner swap
    Russian-American Ksenia Karelina, who Moscow freed as part of a prisoner swap, arrived back in the United States late Thursday.
    State education officials have said budget implications from the loss of the pandemic recovery funds could be catastrophic.
    Maryland sues over Trump administration’s sudden halt of pandemic relief aid for schools
    The lawsuit alleges the Trump administration's action violates federal law because it reversed a prior decision to allow states to access the money through March 2026.
    The George H. Fallon Federal Building in downtown Baltimore, where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore Field Office is located.
    Foil blankets, no medical staff: Maryland senators call ill-equipped ICE holding rooms ‘appalling’
    Maryland’s U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks decried the “appalling situation” unfolding in the holding rooms at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore Field Office in the city’s downtown.
    Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, said she has tried to keep finances on track, including rejecting political pressure to give contracts to groups that don’t provide services the schools need.
    Baltimore City schools’ rainy day fund to cover $48 million in Trump cuts
    Finances are sound enough to handle a significant hit from the federal government without creating a financial crisis, school officials said this week.
    Demonstrators hold signs during a weekly protest in opposition to President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and the DOGE federal workforce cuts on the Gorman Road I-95 overpass in Laurel.
    Federal workers are frustrated. Some feel better shouting from an I-95 overpass at rush hour.
    Frustrated with the Trump administration, some federal workers and family members said they came to the Gorman Road overpass of I-95 looking for catharsis, community and a form of validation.
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