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U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland named Eldersburg-based All Time Toys the Senate Small Business of the Week.

A Treasury Department review of the stalling process to place Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill should take about 10 months.

Tribune Publishing Chairman David Dreier announced Sunday the creation of a foundation that plans to build a memorial to fallen journalists in Washington, D.C.

Trump's tweet about holding off from a planned military retaliation drew advice, warnings and concert from Maryland Democrats.

Former Ellicott City store owner Jason Barnes testified in front of a Senate committee this week in support of disaster relief programs.

Several Maryland congressmen have asked for a CDC briefing about adenovirus protocol after the virus killed a University of Maryland student in November.

Bernard C. “Jack” Young formally took an oath of office as Baltimore’s 51st mayor. He became mayor last week when fellow Democrat Catherine Pugh resigned.

Gov. Larry Hogan and Sen. Ben Cardin will speak at Baltimore Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young's mayoral inauguration Thursday.

Robert Mueller’s report represents “only part of the story” of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to Maryland lawmakers. They say Congress must now question the special counsel and subpoena his report, minus the redactions.

Maryland's congressional delegation introduced legislation to honor Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been used for a variety of medical research long after her death of cervical cancer in 1951.

MIT graduates living in Maryland urged action on climate change - and found a lot of their neighbors agree with them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning primary victory over Congressman Joe Crowley in New York suggested a pronounced shift of the Democratic Party toward Socialism.  But progressive voters should consider another model other than the left-leaning Democrat: a new socialist party.

Federal, state and local officials met Tuesday near the banks of Little Pipe Creek in Union Bridge to discuss was to protect the town from future flooding.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski will be in Washington Tuesday evening to attend the State of the Union address as delivered by President Donald Trump.

Concerned about the effects of a recently ended partial federal government shutdown, Maryland lawmakers are considering ways to cope should politicians force another closure. Unemployment benefits for nonessential employees, pay for contract workers and help with utility bills are on the table.

The partial shutdown of the federal government reached its 33rd day, a record-long impasse stretching many federal employees in Maryland, as well as contractors, farmers, beer brewers and others in the state past their financial limits.

Maryland congressional legislators shared Saturday mixed receptions to President Donald Trump’s offer to extend protections for immigrants brought into the United States illegally as children in exchange for border wall funding.

Small businesses are hurting or worried about long-term harm of prolonged government shutdown, several business owners told Maryland's senators Thursday.

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation to guarantee back pay for federal employees affected by a partial government shutdown. The measure has already cleared the U.S. Senate, where it was sponsored by Maryland Democrats Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen.

Western Maryland preservation group expresses concern about Gov. Larry Hogan's plan to swap land there for Oxon Cove Park near Washington for a new stadium for the Washington Redskins, even as Hogan defends the proposed deal.

The new Congress assembles Thursday in Washington. Here is a look at Maryland congressional delegation members entering the 116th U.S. Congress.

The Sun has not endorsed many black candidates for statewide office.

No matter what, Congress should not spend a dime on an ineffective border wall.

Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question.

The Howard Street Tunnel expansion appears to be back on, after the railroad CSX Transportation reversed a decision to pull out of the project and committed $91 million toward it, Maryland officials said Thursday.

More than a dozen Ravens players and executives write to U.S. senators backing criminal justice legislation they say would bring "much needed change."

Suzanne F. Cohen, the former board chair of the Baltimore Museum of Art who championed its free admissions policy, died of cancer Tuesday at her North Baltimore home. She was 83.

Sending thousands of troops to U.S. southern border is latest example of an unhealthy blurring of lines between military and police.

Sen. Ben Cardin didn't take umbrage over challenges from Republican Tony Campbell and independent Neal Simon about his long tenure and effectiveness during their debate Sunday.

Republican Tony Campbell and independent Neal Simon met Cardin on Sunday at WBFF-TV for their sole televised debate.

By a vote of 50-48, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, and he was sown in shortly afterward, while protesters shouting outside the Capitol.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen took to the Senate floor on Saturday and read harrowing accounts of women who said the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had emboldened them to share their own stories.

Democratic incumbent Ben Cardin, Republican challenger Tony Campbell and independent Neal Simon will participate in a debate Sunday in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race. WBFF-TV in Baltimore will host the event. It can be seen live at 3 p.m. Sunday on FoxBaltimore.com and on WJLA-TV in Washington.

Ben Cardin ought to speak up about his thoughts on Judge Kavanaugh and the Democratic effort to smear him.

Maryland's U.S. senators back a new FBI probe and question Brett Kavanaugh's impartiality after 'meltdown' before committee. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen said a full accounting is needed of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegation.

Maryland's U.S. senators call sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh "very serious" and "credible."

Maryland’s U.S. senators asked a Senate committee to support language requiring notice if any state election vendors came under the ownership or control of a foreign national.

Maryland's U.S. senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen on Tuesday asked Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin to investigate a Russian investor's ties to a company that manages the state's election technology.

The FBI investigates whether a Maryland "computer glitch" that might have wiped as many as 80,000 voters off election rolls for last month's primary was part of Russia's alleged hacking of U.S. elections.

The Senate resolution cites the history of the Capital Gazette — which dates back to 1727 — as one of the oldest newspapers in the United States. It also honors the institution of journalism as a cornerstone of American democracy.

Sen. Ben Cardin says he's "gravely concerned" about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s willingness to defer criminal investigations of misconduct until after President Trump leaves office.

Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin, a fixture in Maryland politics for more than 50 years, won his party’s nomination to seek a third term.

The letters and emails keep arriving in lawmakers’ offices, filled with worry, passion and exclamation points.

Sen. Ben Cardin has accumulated far more campaign money than his challengers in Tuesday's primary. But the Maryland Democrat has needed to spend little of it so far.

As mourners paid respects to Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz on Friday, his wife Jill told the crowd of Maryland politicos she had recently warned her husband his campaign for governor was "killing him."

Many Marylanders would again pay more for monthly health premiums than their mortgages under rate increases requested by insurers for plans to be sold on the state’s health insurance exchange. Requested increases range from 18.5 percent to 91.4 percent.

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin announced Wednesday that he opposes the nomination of CIA director Mike Pompeo to serve as President Donald Trump’s next secretary of state.

President Donald Trump will name Baltimore native and McDonogh alum John Bolton as national security adviser, replacing H.R. McMaster.

When Republican state Del. Deborah C. Rey heard the nation’s latest school shooting was unfolding at one of the three public high schools in her rural Southern Maryland district, she started to pray.

Members of the state’s congressional delegation Friday called on the Senate to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Maryland’s U.S. Attorney after revelations he is being delayed over questions about the Russia probe.