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Wednesday column responding to reader comments about immigrants and refugees, in defense of Trump travel ban

The deep blue dress Erika Brannock picked out to wear for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sentencing this week hung just below the place where her left leg was amputated.

Should the federal jury considering the penalty phase in the trial of surviving Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentence him to death?

Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in Paris. The motive for the attack by the Kouachi brothers was to avenge what the brothers believed to be blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed. But there may be another motive for the timing of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Al Qaida has a penchant for timing some of its more spectacular attacks to coincide with the court trials of its operatives in captivity.

Death penalty would only make Boston bomber a martyr to his radical cause

Brannock Brannock, a Boston Marathon bombing victim, slides to the edge of her wheelchair. She looks down at a pair of carefully selected gray New Balance sneakers. And stands. Her thigh slides deeper into a soft plastic socket as she shifts her weight from her right leg to her new prosthetic leg. The bone where her left leg was amputated sends a sharp, shooting pain, and she starts to cry. Not because it hurts. Because she is about to walk again, her first steps in 173 days.

City police and organizers of this weekend's Baltimore Marathon say they are stepping up security after explosions shook the end of the Boston race this spring, joining other recent running events that have placed restrictions around the finish line.

We must guard against terrorists like Tsarnaev not fret about magazine covers

As Erika Brannock adjusts to life with new physical challenges after the Boston Marathon bombing, she'll have a fully accessible bathroom following renovations by the Freemasons of Maryland.

A new policy announced by the NFL on Thursday will prevent Ravens fans from carrying bags into M&T Bank Stadium this season unless they are made of a clear material.

More guns in Bostonians' hands would not have prevented the Marathon week events — and might have made things worse

When NRA leadership touts Boston as made helpless and terrified by bombings (with the only remedy buying more guns), one has to question whose side they are on

Ordinary citizens play a key role in preventing attacks, but many of us have slipped into complacency

Twenty-some years ago, when I already had kids and a friend was thinking about having one, she admitted to me that she really doesn't like children much, but I assured her she would like — and love — her own.

Robert Reich says turning against immigrants because of the Boston bombing would compound that tragedy.

The Maryland Jockey Club has unveiled enhanced security plans for the 138th Preakness in the wake of the recent deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

The Maryland Jockey Club has unveiled enhanced security plans for the 138th Preakness Stakes in the wake of recent deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Ethnic Chechens who have taken asylum in the U.S. from their war-torn state on the southern border of the Russian Federation are disgraced by Boston bombing.

The president's desire to 'make nice' with the Muslim world is preventing us from calling evil by its name.

The mistakes made by social media and cable TV after the Boston Marathon bombings have continued reverberating with the discovery last week of the body of a young man falsely accused of being a suspect. We saw similar patterns after the Newtown shooting, and we need to look at this trend before the media get any further out of control.

Catonsville resident and Boston University student Caitlin Donnelly is one of the thousand of Boston residents striving to return to normal less than two weeks after the Boston Marathon Bombings.

All Americans entitled to a day in court including Boston bombing suspect

Whether the Boston bombers used mortar-style fireworks to create their bombs is notable but safety concerns alone may justify stricter controls on pyrotechnics

The surviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a seemingly well adjusted American teen, is the mystery man in this story.

Calls for Boston bombing suspect to be tried as an enemy combatant are irresponsible, dangerous and unconstitutional but not terribly surprising

BOSTON — By 2:42 p.m., eight minutes before the first bomb blast triggered chaos along the marathon course here, Carol Downing's daughters and son-in-law were positioned perfectly to watch her sprint across the finish line.