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A selection of books featuring LGBTQ characters that are part of a Supreme Court case
Maryland’s largest school district heads to the Supreme Court. Here’s what to know.
Some Montgomery County families want the right to opt kids out of reading inclusive storybooks.
Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, on Tuesday is set to sign a bill that his administration put forward called the Expungement Reform Act of 2025.
Moore set to expand ways for ex-offenders to clear their criminal records
In 2022, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s mid-level level appeals court, ruled that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed after a violation cannot receive an expungement.
Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott delivers his State of the City address on Monday.
Taxes, test scores, the arts: 3 promises in Mayor Scott’s State of the City address
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott delivered his State of the City speech in a more casual, TED Talk-style format.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball briefs the County Council on his proposed fiscal year 2026 budget on April 21, 2025.
How Calvin Ball proposes to tighten Howard County’s belt amid federal, state cuts
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball unveiled a $2.3 billion operating budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning in July, recommending $100 million be trimmed from the county’s books.
Ryan Holiday gives a talk at the U.S. Naval Academy in 2023.
He refused to censor his lecture. Then the Naval Academy canceled it.
Ryan Holiday, an author and podcaster, had planned to mention book bans — including the Naval Academy's own — during an ethics lecture.
Rep. Maxwell Frost speaks during the Hands Off! day of action against the Trump administration and Elon Musk.
More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s behalf
Four House Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to call attention to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s plight.
The Dutch Village apartment complex was home to as many as 120 students at Yorkwood Elementary School last year.
A troubled New York investor started to flip a Baltimore community. Then he died.
Before his death, Mendel Steiner was fighting off a receivership petition at two Baltimore apartment complexes.
Mayor Brandon Scott’s proposal would drop the property tax rate for homeowners below $2 per $100 of assessed value.
Baltimore mayor proposing property tax cut by 2028
Mayor Brandon Scott will announce the plan in his State of the City address Monday evening.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Hegseth, an Army veteran and the former host of “FOX & Friends Weekend” on FOX News will be the first of the incoming Trump administration’s nominees to face questions from Senators. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Hegseth had a second Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants to those sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders.
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, in a portrait in Baltimore on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
Van Hollen says US faces constitutional crisis as Trump defies courts
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return.
From left, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Rep. Andy Harris.
What makes a Maryland man? Chris Van Hollen and Andy Harris disagree
The definition of a Maryland man is at the center of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fate — and maybe the republic itself.
Susan McCutchen of Bladensburg, who has been fighting maglev for eight years, speaks at a community meeting at the Greenbelt library on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Next to her, from left, are Dels. Anne Healey and Ashanti Martinez and Prince George's County Councilman Eric Olson.
Moore’s maglev support angers Marylanders in path of high-speed train: ‘Can’t stop fighting’
About 100 people packed a stuffy library meeting room in Greenbelt to vent frustration about the Democratic governor's enthusiasm for a maglev train between Washington and Baltimore.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during a news conference upon his arrival from meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Van Hollen says improperly deported man ‘traumatized’ by time in dangerous prison
Sen. Van Hollen is the first person Kilmar Abrego Garcia has spoken to see being unlawfully deported and imprisoned in El Salvador. He told the senator he wants to talk to his wife.
Transmission lines travel north from Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, Constellation’s nuclear power plant in Lusby.
Grid reforms could save Marylanders over $500 a year on power bills, climate group claims
Officials from Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined press calls earlier this week alongside the group Evergreen Action, which commissioned the report, to blast PJM’s management.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore presented Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa of the Kanagawa Prefecture a signed Tomoyuki Sugano Baltimore Orioles jersey. A pitcher for the Os, Sugano is from the Kanagawa Prefecture and is a three-time MVP in Japan.
Moore’s Asia trip helped by baseball talk and a slight football gaffe
Sports were frequent cultural touchstones on Gov. Wes Moore's trip to Japan and South Korea.
President Donald Trump listens during a swearing in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington.
Trump calls Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘unbelievably bad’
Earlier this month, hundreds of people showed up at the Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn to protest Elon Musk and DOGE.
Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data
U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction Thursday in the case, which was brought by a group of labor unions and retirees.
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.
In a photo posted to his official X account on Thursday, April 17, 2025, Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a trip to El Salvador this week.
Sen. Van Hollen meets Maryland man held in El Salvador prison after wrongful deportation
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
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.
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