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President Barack Obama and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank played golf Sunday in Owings Mills, the Caves Valley Golf Club. - Since 1987, we have had President Reagan, President Bush (the elder), two terms of President Clinton, two terms of President Bush (the younger) and two terms of President Obama. During all that time, Thomas V. "Mike" Miller has presided over the Maryland State Senate.
- Hillary Clinton sought to circumvent Congress and the public by hiding her email on a private server, says John Kass.
- OAKLAND, Calif. -- President Barack Obama has teamed with reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry on a public service announcement calling for Americans to mentor youth
- Months after asking the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the Baltimore police force, Commissioner Anthony W. Batts went before a City Council committee to detail how much force officers used during arrests.
- Baltimore resident Jacob Leggette, 9, helped President Barack Obama blow bubbles, and even suggested some science education policy.
- I lost a lot of respect for the national media, while I gained some for local TV. I came to realize there are news outlets so ideologically oriented they might be beyond redemption. I still value — more than anything else — presenting audiences with factual information, but I am no longer sure that doing so is doing enough. One year after the death of Freddie Gray, these are some of the things I learned from the countless hours of coverage I watched.
- A well-connected hedge fund manager is behind a new Senate ad attacking Rep. Chris Van Hollen, according to disclosure reports filed Thursday — the latest development in a widening controversy in the high-profile race.
- A hedge fund manager and major Democratic donor is behind a new super PAC that is airing a controversial attack ad in Maryland's competitive Senate race.
- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi added her name to the growing list of Democrats calling on a super PAC to take down an ad attacking Rep. Chris Van Hollen.
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- Right-wing politicians were determined to oppose Obama at all costs — and their actions have been costly, indeed
- While registration has closed for the April 26 primary election, folks can register and vote on the same day during early voting.
- The Obama administration on Wednesday called on a super PAC backing Rep. Donna F. Edwards' bid for Maryland's Senate seat to pull an ad featuring the president.
- As the high-profile contest for Maryland's open Senate seat erupted Wednesday into fight over an attack ad paid for by an outside group, Rep. Donna F. Edwards'
- Attack ads paid for by shadowy, third-party groups stirred the high-profile contest for Maryland's open Senate seat on Tuesday, underscoring the limits of disclosure rules and leaving the candidates in the Democratic primary bracing for a potential onslaught in the final weeks of the campaign.
- I applaud Gov. Hogan's efforts to address gerrymandering through an independent redistricting commission. Hogan rightly noted that both parties are guilty of
- By the end of April we will likely learn that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. This is because by April 26, six states — New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island — will hold primary contests.
- Should anyone believe Obama's claim of no political influence in Clinton email investigation?
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- Kerry's visit to Hiroshima is a necessary, if belated, step in reducing the nuclear threat
- Op-ed: While one party is focused on building walls and dropping bombs, President Obama is building bridges of hope that would lead to liberty and prosperity.
- In his scolding of chief justice for politicizing the Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman gets just about everything wrong
- Morality today is not about acting for society's, benefit; it is about what makes one feel good.
- Last week, the Supreme Court issued its first ruling since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The court's decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association could have mortally wounded public sector unions, stripping them of their legal ability to collect the funds to keep their doors open. However, a 4-4 ruling ultimately allowed unions to live another day. Unlike many of my union brothers and sisters, I'm disappointed by the decision, however.
- The budget is done and veto fights are turning into flops, but there is still serious work for the legislature to complete by Monday night.
- Gov. Larry Hogan, just the second Republican governor in the past four and a half decades in Maryland, is seeking an unlikely ally on redistricting reform in President Barack Obama. We're hoping the most powerful Democrat in the land answers the call.
- The Sun wouldn't condone a song about killing Barack Obama but one that targets Donald Trump appears to be perfectly fine
- Gov. Larry Hogan wants redistricting reform so much that he asked President Barack Obama to intervene in the General Assembly's debate.
- World leaders must work together to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists.
- Wall Street is a useful political scapegoat that Hillary Clinton can't use because of her connection to it.
- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has taken hypocrisy to new depths, says Cal Thomas.
- Union dues and contraception cases reveal a Supreme Court searching for compromise — and in need of a ninth justice.
- There is no clear American strategy on addressing Islamic State, says John Kass.
- It is interesting to read comments about President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba and the negative reaction from some conservatives, Democrats and Republicans alike, who believed it was inappropriate for the President of the United States to visit the communist state. After all, they say, the Cuban government is run by a dictator who keeps political prisoners, and the Cuban people are not free.
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- With the president's visit to Havana, Cuba, his apology tour, begun in 2009, has come full circle.
- The president's trip to Cuba and Argentina last week set a new course for U.S. relations with its neighbors
- If isolating a country improved human rights, we'd have given Russia and China the Cuban treatment
- The two Democratic candidates running for Maryland's open Senate seat battled over criminal justice and trade in their first televised debate Friday and offered widely different stylistic views for how they would approach filling the seat held for three decades by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski.
- Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Carla Hayden has been named one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune magazine.
- Barack Obama: I understand that we're in the midst of an especially volatile political season. But at a time when our politics are so polarized, we should treat a process of this magnitude — the appointment of a Supreme Court justice — with the seriousness it deserves.
- Some Republicans are very fond of lecturing the country on the importance of personal responsibility. Serving a long jail sentence for a minor drug offense? It's your fault for getting involved with drugs in the first place. Requesting unemployment benefits beyond the 72 weeks now allowed by law? You must be lazy and aren't serious about getting a job. A single mother of four struggling to live on welfare? Well, you should have thought about this before having those babies.
- Pitts: Mitch McConnell is showing contempt for the public by ignoring the latest Supreme Court nominee.
- On a day of deadly bombings in Brussels, three of the leading Republican contenders for U.S. Senate grappled with national security and the fight against terrorism in a debate at the University of Baltimore
- It's all there, right in the document the president and each Senator swore an oath before God to support. The president serves for four years. Nothing in the Constitution says, implies, or suggests that the president's duties are abrogated, suspended, stopped, stripped away or limited in the fourth year of his term — or her term, should a woman be elected. Obama's oath of office requires him to nominate a Supreme Court justice. It's that simple: he shall nominate someone to fill the seat
- Republican senators should give up their gamble and confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court asap.
