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U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume speaks at a press conference in Baltimore.
Mfume withdraws run for leadership role on powerful House committee
The full Democratic Caucus chose Robert Garcia shortly after Kweisi Mfume and Texas' Jasmine Crockett dropped out.
A general view shows Tehran skyline, Iran Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
Trump ceasefire plan falters as Israel says Iran launched more missiles
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for the NATO summit that in his view, both sides had violated the nascent agreement.
In this image provided by the White House, President Donald Trump, right, and Vice President JD Vance sit in the Situation Room, Saturday, June 21, 2025, at the White House in Washington.
Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries
The court’s majority did not detail its reasoning in the brief order, as is typical on its emergency docket. All three liberal justices dissented.
The W.R. Grace & Co. headquarters in Columbia.
Despite outcry, Maryland approves Columbia plastics plant for company with toxic past
The Maryland Department of the Environment has approved an air quality permit for W.R. Grace to build a pilot plastics recycling plant at its Columbia headquarters.
Iran's army commander-in-chief Gen. Amir Hatami, center, accompanied by high ranked army commanders, speaks in a video call with top commanders of the army, in Zolfaghar central headquarters, Iran.
Iran launches missile attacks on US bases in Qatar and Iraq
Iran announced on state television that it had attacked American forces stationed at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia and one of his children in an undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025.
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from jail before trial, but ICE plans to detain him
The mistaken deportation of Abrego Garcia, a citizen of El Salvador who was living in Maryland, has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Janice Curtis Greene is part of an effort aimed at identifying and interring the remains of close to 100 people currently stored at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.
African American remains were uprooted by development. This woman wants to find them a final resting spot.
A state effort aims to find final resting spots for African American remains that were found in most cases by accident because of things like contruction projects and coastal erostion.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine speak during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington.
The Latest: Hegseth says US military used decoys and deception in Iran attack
The secretary of defense said it was important to note that U.S. strikes did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.
During his first budget leading Baltimore's City Council, Council President Zeke Cohen tried to send a message: Council won't be steamrolled.
Baltimore’s budget disagreements were about more than money
The mayor and City Council were both trying to send a message
The historic Stoneleigh neighborhood was founded in 1922 along York Road in Towson.
Racist covenants still exist in this Towson neighborhood. Here’s what some residents are doing about it.
Some in the Stoneleigh neighborhood want to get rid of racist covenants that prohibited African Americans and others from living there. But they must get every homeowner to sign off.
President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House as seen on a television monitor in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran.
Trump’s bombing of Iran splits Maryland delegation along party lines
Maryland lawmakers’ responses to President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites fell along party lines.
President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program, as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen.
Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were ‘completely and fully obliterated’ by U.S. strikes
The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, directly joining Israel ’s war aimed at decapitating the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Washington.
Trump couldn’t resist the American temptation. We’re at war again.
War is the American temptation, the one every president since the end of World War II has faced. Now it's Donald Trump's war.
County Executive Steuart Pittman, Ann Arundel department of Health and the Ann Arundel County Public library announce a pilot program to help reduce gun-related incidents and deaths on April 13, 2023.
Steuart Pittman on leading Maryland Democrats into the 2026 elections
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman will take over as Democrats across the nation assess their priorities.
Balloons tied to the railing outside Upton–Avenue Market Metro station on Thursday to honor Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, who was fatally shot by Baltimore Police this week.
An uneasy calm as West Baltimore organizes to remember well-known arabber killed by police
Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, who was shot and killed by police Tuesday, was a longtime arabber and a fixture in his community.
Dr. Meena Seshamani, who took over as state health secretary in April, will need to replace her second deputy after her Medicaid director, Ryan Moran, said he was leaving.
Top state health department official to leave as Maryland braces for cuts
Ryan Moran, Maryland Medicaid director, becomes the second deputy under the new health secretary to head for the exit, just as Congress debates big cuts.
Waterlogged cars sit in the flooded parking lot of Westernport Elementary School after a catastrophic storm hit the area on Tuesday.
Alas, poor FEMA. We knew you well.
President Donald Trump plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. In the future, if you want help after a disaster, you’ll have to call him. How do you think that’s going to go?
HER Resiliency Center, a nonprofit serving 18- to 25-year-old women in Baltimore and Washington, plans to use the funds to improve the organization’s workforce development program, Triple Crown Academy.
Maryland awards $4 million to boost workforce development in construction
Eight workforce development organizations across Maryland were awarded $500,000 each to bolster their programs addressing apprenticeships in the construction industry.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced he’ll pardon thousands more cannabis convictions and prioritize funding for communities harmed by racist government policies at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester County on June 19, 2025.
Gov. Moore names 400+ communities for state program to close racial wealth gap
Thursday’s announcement comes weeks after Moore vetoed a bill that would have set up a commission to study reparations, angering allies in the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.
William Jarmon, left, talks with Dion Banks at Banks' book signing on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge.
Dion Banks symbolizes Black pride on the Eastern Shore. His first book takes a page from that life.
Dion Banks has written a children's book about a Black superhero who fights slavery titled “Kofi the Wind Whisperer: A Hero’s Fight to Freedom.” The story takes inspiration from the landscape of Dorchester County.
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