Politics

A federal judge on Monday questioned whether government officials could be trusted to follow orders barring them from taking Kilmar Ábrego García into immigration custody or deporting him.

State government offices will be closed in Maryland on Wednesday, Christmas Eve.

Rep. April McClain Delaney is disavowing her January vote in support of a law that requires federal law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused — but not convicted — of certain crimes.

Turning Point is a major force on the right, with a nationwide volunteer network that can be especially helpful in early primary states.

The talks are part of the Trump administration’s monthslong push for peace.

COLUMN: There’s a reason we light our nighttime hours, sing and dance around the winter solstice. Yes, it’s Christmas. Yes, it’s Hanukkah. It’s Kwanzaa, Dongzhi and Yalda, too. But we do it to ward off the dark, the bad things that lurk outside our homes and our lives and to remind of us the good.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.

A new poll from a progressive coalition finds 54% of Marylanders support redrawing the state’s congressional district maps.

Gov. Wes Moore signed a directive aimed at tamping down rising utility costs, and he blamed Maryland’s regional grid operator and President Donald Trump for the state’s energy challenges.

Howard County firefighters can use medical cannabis when they are off duty starting in January.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, who attorneys and family say was born in Laurel, is in ICE custody in Louisiana. Federal officials, using different surnames for her, say she is not a U.S. citizen.

The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.

The governor’s comments come after reporting revealed staff set internal chat messages to auto-delete after 24 hours, leaving no trace of the government business discussed.

With Baltimore Peninsula’s visionary, Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank, walking away from future development, what happens to the public money that Baltimore agreed to front?

Baltimore County has settled a five-year-old lawsuit that former inmates in the county’s detention center filed over compensation for working in the waste and recycling center in Cockeysville.

COLUMN: The dispute over the Magothy Inn is aggravating for the neighbors, but it’s the liquor board that should concern the wider public. Fabricating a rule that downplays conflicts is a petty abuse of power, with stakes so small no one noticed till now.

The students include some who were deported and some who left the country because their parents were deported, according to Maryland's largest immigrant advocacy group.

A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said.

Open government experts and archivists say setting messages to vanish could hinder accountability, dash the public’s right to inspection and keep archivists from reviewing documents for historical value.