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In the Internet era, regulators need new tools to thwart unscrupulous payday lenders

Mirabile, a Republican candidate from Woodbine, said he wanted to keep government interference in the private sector at a minimum.

A new group's efforts to make state and local government more interactive and transparent are badly needed in Maryland.

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown picked up the support of 23 county elected officials from around Maryland Friday, adding to the summertime parade of endorsements of his candidacy for governor next year.

Morgan State is trying to raise $300,000 to give 300 undergraduates an emergency scholarship after their parents were unexpectedly denied federal education loans.

10 putty like substances with wiring found on congressman's glass door early Wednesday

Federal officials are refusing to turn over key information about process for compensating homeowners

Young adults will inherit a tremendous burden unless action is taken to reduce the national debt

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Baltimore lawmaker and top-ranking Democrat on the often contentious committee have never enjoyed a particularly strong relationship.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on reforms to the sugar subsidies in the farm bill.

Reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act — as well as a more recent effort to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage — has underscored just how dramatically lawmakers have changed their view on the issue in the course of 17 years.

The passage of sweeping immigration legislation would mean "everything" to the 16-year-old girl from El Salvador who can't forget the image of her father's arrest and subsequent deportation, nor her own fear of being unable to pursue her dreams without so much as a green card.

A divided Supreme Court struck down a federal law Wednesday that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision that will make federal marriage benefits available to legally married same-sex couples for the first time in the nation's history.

Howard County Board of Education member Janet Siddiqui announced Saturday, June 15 that she will be running for a District 13 seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014.

Boy, alleges rape at Baltimore SEED school

Arguing that the congressional investigation into the IRS should be concluded, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings said Sunday that closed-door interviews with the agency's staff show neither the White House nor officials in Washington had a hand in targeting conservative groups for added scrutiny.

Elected officials from Maryland ditched their talking points and donned purple ties or dresses to pay homage to the Ravens at the White House.

The Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens visited President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday and coach John Harbaugh made reservations for 2014.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown named Howard County Executive Ken Ulman his running mate Monday morning, establishing the first declared Democratic ticket in the 2014 Maryland governor's race.

Political watchers are waiting to see whether Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler is really running for governor – and if so, who his ticket mate will be.

Cummings endorses Brown-Ulman ticket

Political watchers are waiting to see whether Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler is really running for governor – and if so, who his ticket mate will be.

Congressional hearings must climb the chain of command

Rep. Andy Harris said Thursday he will request an expanded review of the state Department of Education's use of federal funds after an audit found the state may have to return up to $540,000 in misspent stimulus dollars and money designated for poor children.

President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges

Baltimore congressman's performance on Benghazi is a disgrace

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.

Florence P. Haseltine knows the power of scientists meeting face to face. The former researcher at the National Institutes of Health notes a list of milestones achieved through networking and collaboration at conferences.

A 26-year-old Naval Academy graduate from Howard County who realized a long-held dream of becoming a military pilot was killed when her Navy jet crashed into a field outside Spokane, Wash., her family said Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings will host a public cancer awareness forum Tuesday at the East Baltimore Medical Center to provide information and resources to patients and survivors.

Rep. Donna Edwards, a Prince George's County Democrat, is again ranked among the most liberal members of the House of Representatives, according to an annual review of roll call votes by National Journal.

Local react to Post Office request to stop delivering mail on Saturdays

WASHINGTON — Responding to gun control loopholes that have proven vexing for police in Maryland and elsewhere, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings will introduce bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to impose tougher penalties for people who traffic guns across state borders or buy them for someone else.

Even as Congress and the White House appeared at a standoff over the fiscal cliff last month, lawmakers and the president were able to agree on at least one thing: an update of the Hatch Act.

How much President Barack Obama can accomplish in his next term, which formally begins with Monday's inauguration, is anyone's guess, but few expect the kind of sweeping policies that defined his first years in the White House. Despite a convincing win in the November election, the country remains deeply divided over how to address the economy, immigration and the nation's spiraling debt.

A bipartisan plan to avoid federal spending reductions and tax increases that would hit Maryland especially hard won final approval Tuesday night in the House of Representatives even as outside groups warned that the bill would simply delay difficult decisions for a few months.

Long lines on Election Day in Maryland and elsewhere have prompted calls by state and federal lawmakers to speed up the process of casting a ballot.

Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, who has represented Maryland's 6th District for nearly two decades, lost his bid for an 11th term Tuesday to a Democratic businessman who cast the closely watched race as a battle of different economic visions for the country.

Despite well-known challengers and widespread dissatisfaction with Washington, most of Maryland's incumbents in the House of Representatives appear to be cruising to reelection — a result of convoluted congressional districts and large Democratic majorities in most parts of the state.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Sharp Street Memorial Church in Baltimore to honor the late state senator Clarence M. Mitchell III, including Gov. Martin O'Malley and many other local, state and national politicians.

At a 10-year memorial of the arson deaths of Angela Dawson, her husband and five children, officials urged community members to speak out about crime in their neighborhood — just as Dawson did before she was killed.

Former state Sen. Clarence M. Mitchell III died Thursday at age 72, according to published reports.