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Robert Reich: Why should we expect Wells Fargo or any other big bank to stop commiting fraud when it's so lucrative?

It's not just Donald Trump, the GOP has sought votes for years by stoking fear and anger toward Mexicans in the country illegally.

WASHINGTON -- Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday criticized a bipartisan bill intended to overhaul federal chemical regulations because it would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to preempt the oversight of some chemicals by states.

When the new Congress begins its work next month Sen. Ben Cardin will become the top Democrat on the Senate committee with oversight of small business policy, giving the Maryland lawmaker a new platform to influence a key sector of the economy.

Political consultants say Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has wounded himself with a series of gaffes and scandals, but perhaps not mortally.

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans, including Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, stepped up their criticism of Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez on Tuesday, amplifying their concerns a day before the former state official faces a Senate committee vote on his confirmation.

Thomas E. Perez faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Justice Department.

Republicans are grasping at straws in their effort to derail President Obama's nomination of Marylander Thomas Perez for labor secretary.

President Barack Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez to lead the U.S. Department of Labor today, the first step in what is shaping up to be a contentious confirmation battle for the Justice Department official, civil rights attorney and longtime Marylander.

In the lucid, infuriating 'Big Uneasy,' Harry Shearer proves there was nothing "natural" about the 2005 disaster in New Orleans

We condemn Rep. Anthony Weiner's actions and his lies, but his political future should be in the hands of the voters of his district, not party bosses in Washington.

We condemn Rep. Anthony Weiner¿s actions and his lies, but his political future should be in the hands of the voters of his district, not party bosses in Washington.

Leonard Pitts notes that women also have affairs, but somehow they have the brains not to take risks that are sure to lead to public embarrassment