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- While presidential candidate Donald Trump sees crime on the rise in the United States, the facts reveal that crime is down — significantly. While Trump see waves of Mexican immigrants and Syrian refugees coming to America, the facts tell a different story. These are two reoccurring themes of the Trump campaign speech that are sure to stir fear with his base. But while they may be good sound bites for his rallies, they are also patently false.
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The FBI warned state elections officials around the country this month to be on their guard against hackers after a breach of voters' personal information in Illinois and an attempt in Arizona. -
- As we wrapped up the primaries and now the conventions, the major question in this writer's mind is who have we got to vote for?
- Outside his apartment window, Samuel Savoy heard gunshots and saw a man standing with a large gun facing officers, telling the man to put the gun down.
- A celebrated Baltimore maritime episode occurred 100 years ago this month when the U-Deutschland, a German commercial submarine, spent a couple of weeks at South Baltimore's Locust Point at the height of World War I.
- I read with interest the comments expressed by The Sun's readers in reaction to the news that Hillary Clinton will not face charges over her use of a private
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- Hillary Clinton deserves more than a tongue-lashing in email case
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- The FBI's decision that Ms. Clinton broke no laws should be the end of the matter, but it probably won't be
- A 24-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty Monday for his role in two murder-for-hire contracts, law enforcement authorities announced.
- The filibuster for votes on gun control measures won't amount to anything so long as the NRA calls the shots on Capitol Hill
- Orlando shooting demonstrates once again the need for restrictions on guns like the AR-15
- The FBI is asking for the public's help to identify three people authorities say tried to steal AR-15 rifles from a southwest Baltimore County store in April.
- While likely well-intentioned, pleas for leniency for pedophile Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, demonstrate an utter lack of knowledge of the damage such a monster causes to his victims. Unfortunately, such ignorance is pervasive in our justice system's handling of child sex abuse cases.
- In the latest fallout from years of concealing the use of a powerful cell phone tracking device, a city judge threw out crucial evidence in the 2014 murder of a woman in Northwest Baltimore.
- Northrop Grumman Corp would receive millions over the next five years in an incentive pushed by the Hogan administration, on top of $20 million lawmakers already intend to award the defense contractor for staying in Maryland.
- A suspect in the holdup of an Abingdon credit union branch in late December is being sought in connection with a series of bank robberies in Maryland, the FBI said.
- The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information on a man it believes is connected to nine bank robberies across Maryland, including two in Carroll County.
- The hackers who locked up data on MedStar's computers this week are demanding ransom to begin unlocking it — and they're offering a bulk discount to release all of it, according to a copy of the demands obtained by the Baltimore Sun.
- The FBI is helping with the investigation of a major computer outage at MedStar Health, but the agency was unable to provide specifics about the problem.
- FBI divers are searching Quarry Lake in Pikesville, but details about their mission are scarce.
- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University said Monday they have found a flaw in the way Apple encrypts information sent over iMessage — the ones that show up blue when they arrive in an iPhone users' messaging app.
- As someone who works in a digital crime lab for law enforcement, I can attest: There are no means to get around a fully encrypted iPhone, other than with the passcode. A forensic examination can obtain limited data from other methods (iCloud backups, etc.), but this information is very limited compared to what is present on the phone itself, and Apple is rumored to be moving to block access to even these methods in the name of privacy. I agree that privacy is important to maintain, but I also
- Sayed Farook, one of the killers in the San Bernardino shootout last December, had an iPhone, and FBI investigators want the information he had stored on it. One week ago, the FBI obtained a court order requiring Apple to help them break into his phone. The next day, Apple said that the FBI wanted them to build an entirely new version of its operating system. Apple CEO Tim Cook argued that complying with the FBI's request would "undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government means to
- Consumer Affairs has named Sykesville one of the safest cities in Maryland when it comes to burglaries.
- Maalik Jones had wanted to move to an Islamic country for a while. But his wife, who moved to America to marry him and was excited to be here, refused to go. So, when Jones finally went in the summer 2011 it was by himself.
- A federal grand jury had indicted an Edgewood accused of having ties to the self-proclaimed Islamic State terror group, prosecutors said Thursday.
- A Maryland man arrested on charges he fought on behalf of an al-Qaida-affiliated terror group in Somalia pleaded not guilty Wednesday and his lawyer said he will fight the charges.
- Winters Mill High School was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning as the Sheriff's office investigated an automated bomb threat.
- Federal authories must make make every effort to peacefully resolve the standoff with right-wing militiamen in an Oregon wildlife refuge.
- The $1.1 trillion spending bill congressional leaders unveiled early Wednesday includes $390 million to begin work on a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation – a coup for a Maryland lawmaker likely making her last mark on federal funding.
- An Edgewood man pledged allegiance to the self-proclaimed Islamic State and received thousands of dollars from overseas that he believed was funding from the terror group to carry out an attack, federal prosecutors said Monday.
- Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic candidate for Senate, is pressing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to use his executive power to stop people on the FBI's terrorist watch list from obtaining guns.
- More accurate data is needed on incidents of excessive use of force by officers
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- Days after San Bernardino attack, FBI wrongly allowed home of terrorists to become a reality TV show
- Encrypting everything to the point where government, backed by a court order, can't get the manufacturer/seller of a smartphone or tablet to aid in its decryption — as the information technology purists and citizens concerned about government overreach desire — is not the solution. Such actions passively enable criminals, adversary nations and terrorists.
- Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake created the war room initiative last month as an "all-hands-on-deck" approach to address an unprecedented spike in the city's homicide rate since the Freddie Gray unrest.
- Federal agents met with Baltimore Police Department homicide detectives Monday to begin a two-month partnership with the goal of curbing this summer's record-breaking pace of violence.
- Amid public outcry over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the U.S. Justice Department is opening an investigation into the 25-year-old's death.
- The Baltimore Police Department has used an invasive and controversial cellphone tracking device thousands of times in recent years while following instructions from the FBI to withhold information about it from prosecutors and judges, a detective revealed in court testimony Wednesday.
- Andy Leimer, dazzled by the sun as he made his way south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway one day this year, made a wrong turn into the restricted campus of the National Security Agency. The ordeal cost him more than $800. It could have been worse.
