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• Maryland

Letter: It's time to impeach President Trump

I've been opposed to President Trump since he first announced he was running for the office. I disliked his ideas and thought he was ill-prepared for the job.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: A roadmap to the end of Trump's presidency

Robert Reich lays out a roadmap to impeach Donald Trump.

• News

FBI director wrote Trump wanted Flynn investigation ended

The White House confronted Tuesday what could be the most serious allegation to date against President Trump amid reports that in February he asked the FBI

• Opinion

Choosing republic over reputation

The "Russian thing" Rosenstein's big test

By Dan Rodricks

May 16, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Whose Autocracy Is It Anyway?: 13 authoritarian jokes on America

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• Opinion

Trump's mind-boggling ineptitude and corruption

In Comey firing, President Trump demonstrates anew everything that's awful about his presidency

• Opinion

Unsolicited advice for Rod Rosenstein

Rod Rosenstein doesn't need to appoint a special prosecutor to protect his reputation. He needs to do it to protect the Constitution.

• Politics

Rod Rosenstein says he's defending Constitution, not worried about reputation

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein told a Baltimore business group Monday his top concern in Washington is defending the Constitution. The comment came

By Yvonne Wenger

May 16, 2017

• Opinion

Horsey: Donald Trump is too inept to conduct a successful cover-up

Donald Trump may be innocent, but he acts as if he has something to hide, says David Horsey.

• Maryland

Edelman: Appearances matter in politics

Politics is a game where appearances matter. Government officials, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. Last week, President Donald Trump removed FBI

• Opinion

Trump escalates war on the press

President Trump's threat to cancel the White House press briefings imperils not only the task of the attending reporters, but also the vested interest of the public as well. The ability of the press to probe answers in a free-flowing exchange is a powerful means to hold Mr. Trump and his administration to account for their words and deeds.

By Jules Witcover

May 15, 2017

• Opinion

Climate change science notches a win

A surprising Senate vote bodes well for a rational approach to climate change policy

• Opinion

Trump is losing my vote

Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate I could support but now he's losing me — and my high school peers

• Opinion

Comey did not usurp attorney general's authority

Rosenstein is wrong to suggest James Comey decided Attorney General Lynch had a conflict of interest

• Features

DeRay Mckesson, Edward Snowden discuss FBI, surveillance, race in new podcast

Edward Snowden discusses FBI, surveillence in DeRay Mckesson's podcast

By Brittany Britto

May 12, 2017

• Opinion

Reaction to FBI raid in Annapolis reveals one rattled nation under Trump

In a less agitated and jangled nation, a story about the FBI raiding the office of Republican political consultant in Annapolis might not cause much of a media

By David Zurawik

May 12, 2017

• Opinion

A short list for replacing Comey

There are at least three individuals President Donald Trump could nominate to lead the FBI today who can not only do the job effectively but also end the hysteria, restore the reputation of the FBI and keep the agency hard-charging on truth and justice. Patrick Fitzgerald, Mythili Raman or John Carlin would each instantly bring the type of integrity, independence, experience and leadership the FBI and America need.

• Opinion

Alternative facts of the week: The Comey firing

The ouster of FBI director is full of White House lies, justifications and obfuscation designed to distract the public from an egregious abuse of power.

• Politics

Democrats call for limiting Rosenstein's oversight of Russian probe

Weeks after hailing him as an "independent" prosecutor who would "stand up for the law," Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had deep reservations about Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein's impartiality and said they no longer trusted him to oversee the probe into Russia.

By John Fritze

May 10, 2017

• Opinion

Trump deserves to be impeached

Firing of Comey should be regarded as last straw for Donald Trump's presidency

• Opinion

After Comey firing, how does Trump think he'll get re-elected?

After Comey firing, how does Trump think he'll get re-elected?

• Opinion

Comey firing trumps all excuses not to appoint a special counsel

Trump's reasons for firing James Comey are hypocritical, and the timing his highly suspicious. Only a truly independent investigation will restore public trust.

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy In Crisis: Comey, Comey, Comey Chameleon, You Come and Go

Back in March when then-FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Select Intelligence Committee—chaired by Devin Nunes, who had yet to jump out of an

• News

Poll: Should FBI director James Comey have been fired?

• Politics

Administration turns to former Maryland prosecutor with apolitical reputation to explain Comey's firing

When the time came for the Trump administration to explain why it had fired the embattled director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the job fell not to the president or to the Attorney General but to the former U.S. Attorney from Maryland with a reputation for putting the law above politics.

By John Fritze

May 9, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Trump fires Comey, with an assist from MD's former U.S. Attorney Rosenstein

Citing a memo from former Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, White House Officials announced today that President Donald Trump has fired F.B.I. Director

• Features

This Day in History: May 10

In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.

• Maryland

Longtime Baltimore legislator Oaks charged with federal wire fraud

State Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks, a longtime Baltimore state legislator, has been charged in U.S. District Court with wire fraud, court records show.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Trump cranks up the fog machine

Donald Trump deals with bad press by enveloping it in a dense fog of confusion and partisanship.

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy In Crisis: Archaeological Notes on "Russia"

After the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian interference with the U.S. election, I had to renew my press credential

• Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Trump's chickens finally come home to roost

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Accountability has finally arrived for Donald Trump, seven decades late.

• Obituaries

William McFaul, career FBI agent, dies

Retired FBI agent William McFaul dies

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 24, 2017

• Maryland

Laurel police investigating 'suspicious death' of Laurel man

Laurel Police Chief Richard McLaughlin said the investigation of a "suspicious death" March 16 on Patuxent Road in Laurel is being conducted through criminal investigations, as police await autopsy results.

• Opinion

Witcover: Trump refuses to back away from his ugliest lie

Trumps allegation against Obama is his most outrageous accusation yet in a long string of unsubstantiated statements that he has declined to withdraw.

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy in Crisis: Congress going "berserk" over Russia

Like the rest of the country, Congress has gone crazy. “The idea that Russia could come in and interfere with our election, all of us should be going berserk,”

• Opinion

Alternative fact of the week

FBI Director Comey gets to shoot down a Trump alternative fact on live television

• Baltimore County

Baltimore County officials notified calls were intercepted during 2013-14 wiretap

Multiple Baltimore County government officials received notice from federal prosecutors this month saying their communications were intercepted as part of a wire tap investigation in 2013 and 2014.

By Alison Knezevich

Mar 22, 2017

• Opinion

Harriet Tubman's lessons for today

The stories of Harriet Tubman and other freedom seekers, as they are called in the tourism brochures, hold many sobering lessons for those of us trying to make sense of the country we have come to be — a nation led by a president who lies as easily as he tweets. With wild accusations that congressional leaders and even the heads of the FBI and the National Security Agency say are unfounded, he seeks to distract media and anti-Trump activists from following his diabolical plans to destroy

By E.R. Shipp

Mar 22, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy in Crisis: Republicans seek leaks, raise possibility of prosecuting press

Republicans collectively twisted themselves into knots Monday in order to ignore what was really happening in the hearings on Russian hacking of the election

• Opinion

The Trump-Russia cloud

Trump and his allies do themselves no favors by attacking investigation into Russia's efforts to influence U.S. election

• Baltimore City Paper

Following officer indictments, a slew of old cases to go over

On the heels of the arrest and indictment of seven Baltimore City Police officers on conspiracy charges last month, the Office of the Public Defender is

• Opinion

Lawsuit could sink FBI headquarters

Frosh travel ban lawsuit a political exercise that could hurt Maryland

• Politics

New FBI headquarters site on hold until Congress secures funding

Plans to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters had been postponed until Congress can secure funding, the General Services Administration announced Friday.

• Baltimore City Paper

Five times law enforcers could have arrested Donald Trump but didn’t

President Donald Trump is reportedly under FBI investigation, again. The feds are reportedly looking into his campaign’s contacts with Russian government

• Politics

Md. delegation seeks investigation into threats at Jewish centers

Maryland's congressional delegation called Wednesday for a federal investigation into a recent wave of threats made to Jewish institutions in the state and

By John Fritze

Mar 1, 2017

• Opinion

Giving 'voice' to race-baiting

Trump's anti-immigrant stance is now packaged with compassion for crime victims

• Howard County

Howard safety organization teaches community response to active assailant

As founder and president of the National Center for Citizen Safety, the Ellicott City resident has made it her duty to teach people of all ages how fast and effective decision-making can safe lives when there's an active assailant.

By Andrew Michaels

Feb 23, 2017

• Entertainment

'Homeland' recap: Babysitting gone wrong

This week on "Homeland" deals with the aftermath of the attack in New York, while Quinn sparks a hostage situation at Carrie's house.

• Maryland

Contractor indicted on charges of stealing defense documents

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted a government contractor on charges that he stole reams of highly classified documents.<

• Maryland

Alleged 'winter hat robber' nabbed in Baltimore County

A Catonsville man who had been dubbed the "winter hat robber" was arrested Monday by Baltimore County Police after the FBI said he robbed the PNC Bank on Sweet Air Road in Phoenix.