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Now that Republican Larry Hogan has bested Democratic challenger Ben Jealous to win a second term as governor of Maryland the blame game and airing of electoral grievances on the losing side can officially begin. But Mr. Jealous didn’t lose this race nearly as much as Mr. Hogan won it.

Putting America first means watching "Fox & Friends" and letting other nations lead in global affairs, says Rachel Marsden.

Here are five voter sentiments we learned from Tuesday’s midterm election in which Gov. Larry Hogan became the first Republican governor to win re-election in Maryland since the 1950s, despite widespread antipathy towards President Donald Trump.

Democrats won county executive seats in Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel, unseating two Republican incumbents and reversing the red tide that swept the Baltimore suburbs four years ago.

Democratic Attorney General Brian Frosh won a second term in office after emerging as one of the nation's chief antagonists of the Trump administration.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s impressive win over challenger Ben Jealous Tuesday offers some strong insights into the use of media that directly challenge what was starting to feel like post-2016 conventional wisdom.

Other locales might have drawn more star power in recent days — from President Donald Trump jetting to 11 rallies in six days to Oprah seemingly taking up residence in Georgia — but Maryland voters descended on their polling places on Tuesday with a determined intensity of their own.

Carroll County voters went to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Here's a sampling of their thoughts on the local races, the Maryland gubernatorial race and President Donald Trump, who isn't on the ballot but looms large over this election.

Trying to figure out if a blue wave is sweeping Maryland or if Gov. Hogan has a red tide of his own? Here's how to watch the results.

In my worst fears since 2016 about what President Trump's right-wing media messaging machine would look like and how it might affect our democracy, I never thought I would see what I did Monday night on Fox News starting with the propaganda performance of Sean Hannity.

Here are The Sun's endorsements in Tuesday's midterm elections.

The recent synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people shows once again that Trump sends message of xenophobia.

President Trump has changed the very face of the Grand Old Party into a wrecking crew of American ideals toward immigration and recently toward citizenship itself, to maintain a presidency that has fallen into chaos and political expediency for survival.

Has President Donald Trump become the Energizer Bunny of lies in the run-up to the midterm of election?

A president sets the country's tone; the tone this one sets is poisonous, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Democratic challenger Ben Jealous and other candidates on Maryland ballots are engaging in a final blitz to persuade undecided voters and get their supporters to the polls. Hogan is rallying in Annapolis and Grasonville; Jealous in Wheaton and the Baltimore area.

With just days to go before the midterm election, Gov. Larry Hogan has run a media campaign that will be one for the textbooks. Can anything derail it now?

I became a U.S. citizen in 2012, 10 years after I had become a permanent resident, and 22 after I first arrived in the United States. Today, as President Trump questions what it means to be a citizen, I wonder: Why did it take me so long?

It is time to hold people and parties accountable, whether it’s for our uncivil discourse, the legislative branch’s timidity in exercising its Constitutional duty to balance executive over-reach, Washington corruption, or the soaring deficit.

President Donald Trump told some easily debunk-able lies this week when it comes to immigration. But the biggest of all may be that he actually intends to do anything he says.

Book Two of Ken Follett’s trilogy was copyrighted in 2012, but as I began reading it this week, it was like an extension of the day’s headlines about killing Jews in Pittsburgh.

In this election, anyone who votes for any Republican must understand that he/she is aiding and abetting Donald Trump.

On a day when the news was full of package bombs sent to kill prominent Democrats and President Trump spewed his daily vitriol like regurgitated Diet Coke, it would have been logical for me, a lifelong Democrat, to double down and vote the straight party ticket. Yet I didn't. Here's why.

Don’t you wish that hypocrisy was a crime? This occurred to me most recently upon hearing the view of some self-proclaimed “constitutionalists” or “strict constructionists” regarding ending birthright citizenship in the United States.

Fear and hate are at the center of the Trump presidency and its Fox News propaganda machine, says Robert Reich.

American politics is descending further into the logic of the vendetta, says Jonah Goldberg.

Shocking as the Shabbat massacre in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue was, it was perhaps predictable given the tweets, insults and us-versus-them rhetoric with which Mr. Trump has deepened resentment against marginalized communities. We must take every opportunity to eliminate this intolerance.

After a brief call for more civility in response to the flurry of bombs sent to past and current Democratic leaders, President Trump still clings to his campaign against the press as "the enemy of the people."

We need to get to a place where hate is not an accepted, tolerated or exploited ideology.

Cal Thomas suggests that the Democrats are funding the wave of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

As a former college professor who taught about controversial issues, I know how important it is for authority figures to set positive examples. For those who have trouble understanding how Mr Trump’s rhetoric creates a toxic atmosphere, I’d like to share a small, 28-year-old Little League incident.

In wake of bombings, the president tries bipartisanship (for a matter of hours) before returning to his customary hateful rhetoric.

Attorney General Brian Frosh has ably represented Maryland's interests in the environment, consumer protection, public safety — and, yes, opposition to damaging federal policies from the Trump administration. He has our endorsement.

The Sun endorses Gov. Larry Hogan for re-election.

Maryland law enforcement agencies received 398 reports of hate or bias last year, an increase of 35 percent from 2016 — and a pace of more than one report a day. The state’s experience echoes a national increase in reported hate crimes, reversing a long, gradual decline.

Baltimore-area journalists spoke on a panel in Towson on Oct. 16 about journalism and the threats it faces in an era of "fake news."

In an unexpected move from a self-described “law and order” administration, President Trump recently signaled his support for the First Step Act, which passed the House earlier this year and is designed to reform mandatory minimum sentencing laws for nonviolent drug offenders.

Attorney General Brian Frosh has emerged as the Maryland Democratic party’s chief opponent to President Donald Trump. But to Republican challenger Craig Wolf, Frosh’s focus on Washington has let down Maryland residents. Frosh says when he's protecting Marylanders, "it's right to jump in."

It appears that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and legal resident of the United States, has been murdered in a plan likely developed and carried out by the Saudi Arabia government inside their Istanbul consulate. Why is Trump afraid to criticize Saudi Arabia?

Donald Trump's lawsuit victory against Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) in a defamation case is a big win for the media, too.

Kanye West's theatrical “I love this man” embrace of the president smacked of a Shirley Temple-era little black boy showing off for Massa Trump’s invited guests.

Perhaps the time has come to move up from the least powerful form of county government to the code home rule form. It is too late to get such a change on the  2018 ballot. So Carroll will continue to have the form of government most suitable for small rural counties.

Ben Jealous has been getting blown out by Hogan ads on TV, but a couple of strong fee media performances could help him.

Trump must not take economic sanctions off the table in Khashoggi disappearance.

Forget the words that Trump said Sunday night to Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes." What matters is the performance in TV terms. And even more important, what was Trump up to in doing the interview on a network he calls fake news?

Jules Witcover: President Trump is not on the ballot, but Americans will still be voting for or against him on Nov. 6.

In Howard County, 43 hate crimes were reported in 2017, up 10 from the 33 reported in 2016, according to a Maryland State Police report.

Confirming Brett Kavanaugh was the best outcome at the end of a hellish decision tree that left the country with no ideal option. Reasonable people may differ on that. But what seems more obvious: It's all going to get worse. Because everyone is taking the wrong lessons from the Kavanaugh debacle.

President Donald Trump is deep in alternative fact land when he claims that stop and frisk would help in Chicago — or anywhere else.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The existence of "Republicans for Integrity" implies that integrity has become rare in the GOP.