If there was a sense of relief around Camden Yards on Monday as Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias introduced his new manager, Brandon Hyde, it was as much for the fact that the process is over as it was for what was to come next. In Hyde, a 45-year-old longtime minor...
The Maryland Province of Jesuits on Monday released a list of about 30 priests and other order members who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of children since 1950. The list compiled by the Roman Catholic group cites men who at some point worked, studied or served in the Maryland Province,...
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Mathematically, there are four teams still chasing the Ravens for the AFC’s second wild-card spot. Realistically, there are only two. The Cleveland Browns (6-7-1) need not only to win their next two games but also the Ravens to lose to the Los Angeles Chargers, the Miami Dolphins to lose at least...
Despite almost daily reports of crashes or non-responsive technology on public roads involving driverless cars, Congress is trying to hitch a new law to Santa’s sleigh in the form of the year-end-keep-the-government-open spending bill, just ahead of a new majority come January. Today, all motor...
Given how Maryland’s Democratic leadership drew the congressional district map in 2011, pretty much guaranteeing that the state’s delegation would consist of seven Democrats and just one Republican, you could argue that the one Republican should be as extremely conservative as possible. How else...
Many expect that a Texas judge’s ruling Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional will be overturned on appeal. The reason for that is that it’s flat-out nuts. It posits that because the Supreme Court previously upheld the law’s individual mandate under Congress’ taxation powers,...
The news these past few weeks has been hard to miss. The day after Thanksgiving, the National Climate Assessment was released showing that, if we don’t act boldly and quickly to address climate change, our future will consist of mass deaths due to heat, global food shortages and economic disaster....
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Jeff Bezos captured the world's imagination when he appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones. Five years on, Amazon.com’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands...
Johns Hopkins University spent more than a billion dollars more on research and development than the next big spender among research universities to top the National Science Foundation’s annual list for the 39th consecutive year. Hopkins spent $2.56 billion, well ahead of the No. 2 spender, University...
President Donald Trump pledged that his tax law would kill off breaks and complex loopholes for the wealthy. Instead, the overhaul has ushered in a new generation of maneuvers that taxpayers can exploit before Dec. 31 to minimize next year's bills. Some tactics capitalize on provisions in the law...
Silicon Valley is becoming Silicon Nation. Google announced Monday it will spend more than $1 billion to build a new office complex in New York City that will allow the internet search giant to double the number of people it employs there. It is the tech industry's latest major expansion beyond...
The owner of Greg’s Bagels in Belvedere Square says he plans to reopen, and dismissed the recent shutting down by the city’s health department as “a momentary closing to get some things squared away.” Thomas Hearn, who purchased the much-loved bagel shop from founder Greg Novik in December 2016,...
“A Wonder in My Soul” is a play told through six voices. Audience members don’t watch this show at Center Stage as much as listen to it — and not just because the characters sometimes break into song. In Marcus Gardley’s play, it’s 2008. Barack Obama is about to be elected the U.S.’s first black...
Kix-Mas The big-hair glam rockers from Western Maryland make their seasonal sojourn to Baltimore where, for an evening at least, it’ll be just like you were rockin’ out back in the ’80s. If you have yet to hear “Midnite Dynamite” or “Cold Shower” performed live, stop wasting time. 9 p.m. Dec. 22...
The gang was all there for the final 2018 "Saturday Night Live" cold open. Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump, Ben Stiller returned as Michael Cohen, Robert De Niro returned as Robert Mueller and episode host Matt Damon returned as Brett Kavanaugh for a look at what the world would have been...
Stanley, the 18-year-old cat who received a $19,000 kidney transplant last November, died Friday. The cat’s owner Betsy Boyd, who directs the master’s degree program in creative writing and publishing at the University of Baltimore, said she made the decision to put the feline to sleep after he...
In a recent article, music and entertainment magazine Rolling Stone did the difficult job of narrowing down hundreds of live music venues and clubs in the country to the 10 best, and a Baltimore music venue made the cut. Alongside other noteworthy music venues like Austin’s Stubbs, Nashville, Nashville’s...
Robin Wright’s final stint on “House of Cards” is getting some love from her fellow actors. Wright’s performance as U.S. President Claire Underwood, in a final season that saw the veteran actor pushed to the front of the show after Kevin Spacey was fired following allegations of sexual abuse, has...
Like oppressed minorities throughout the centuries, gay Victorians used a coded language to communicate privately with one another, a code designed to be undetectable by members of mainstream society. In the hands of the sophisticated and witty Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, that secret cipher became...
When Maryland’s new public school rating system was released earlier this month, Anne Arundel County stood out as a high-performing system with mediocre ratings. It had many more elementary schools that earned only two or three stars on the one-to-five scale than surrounding jurisdictions including...
Two federal law enforcement agencies in Maryland are teaming up to increase awareness about the deadly consequences of fentanyl and other opioids that have been fueling mounting overdose deaths in the state and across the nation. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s...
Although few details are available about Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal to trade park land in Western Maryland for federal property in Prince George’s County to make way for a new Washington Redskins stadium, the concept of a land exchange is not a new one. If Hogan’s deal comes to fruition, Maryland...