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• Sports

Aiming high: Altitude is the acid test at Tour de France 

For the first time in its 116-year history, the Tour de France that starts Saturday features three stages that finish on mountains climbs to above 6,500 feet

• Commentary

Vigliotti: Our home is American

But when one speaks of Americans, one doesn’t only think of a place – one also thinks about ideals.

• Sports

Carli Lloyd says 2019 U.S. World Cup team not a continuation of 2015

Carli Lloyd says the success that the U.S. national team is having at the Women's World Cup in France isn't an extension of the 2015 title run

• Opinion

My World Cup leave, or how I dropped everything to watch the U.S. Women's National Team storm through France

If supporting the U.S. women's soccer team meant I had to travel to Europe and scooter around French bars and stadiums — oui, I will make that sacrifice.

By Catherine Rentz

Jul 4, 2019

• Opinion

Witcover: The last time I saw Paris

There are ample reasons to deplore and mourn as a civilized society the destruction of Notre Dame, a magnificent global treasure. It may not rank with the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the ruins of Pompeii, but it can be restored, as French President Emanuel Macron has already pledged.

• Maryland

Archdiocese of Baltimore offers prayers for the people of France after fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Archdiocese of Baltimore offers prayers for the people of France after fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

By Catherine Rentz

Apr 15, 2019

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• Opinion

Putting one's own country first isn't wrong

Macron gets it wrong in his criticism of nationalism.

• Maryland

Baltimore celebrates 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, end of World War I

Veterans, relatives, students and officials gathered at the War Memorial downtown to commemorate the armistice.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 11, 2018

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Social media propaganda isn't changing any functional minds

bs-ed-op-0928-marsden-social-20180926. Rachel Marsden: Social media get far too much credit for the ability to change minds by propagating propaganda.

• Opinion

Remembering 'Baltimore's Own' and the demons they carried

One hundred years ago in Northeast France, the American Army began the offensive that would ultimately end World War I. The tip of the spear in General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing’s attack that day was the 79th Division’s 313th regiment, known as "Baltimore's Own." My grandfather was a member.

• Maryland

At Baltimore Cemetery, tombstones recall an important World War I battle that took a local toll

A limestone statue of a World War I warrior stands at Baltimore Cemetery. It’s a memorial to Otto C. Phillips, a private from Baltimore who was killed in action 100 years ago in the Battle of Montfaucon in Northeast France.

By Jacques Kelly

Sep 22, 2018

• Opinion

In a French television drama about World War II, seeing a contemporary American shame

The reaction when an American watches a depiction of family separation in a series about occupied France

By Dan Rodricks

Sep 10, 2018

• Maryland

Experiencing France, abroad and at home

After spending time in France with host families, students were able to reconnect with their French friends when some came to America to visit.

• Maryland

Tug-of-war and breaking bread: What to expect at this year's National Night Out in Towson

In Towson, two National Night Out events will be held on August 7 to celebrate police-community relations.

By Libby Solomon

Jul 27, 2018

• Opinion

Witcover: Romancing Trump, Macron shows his own skill at the art of the deal

Jules Witcover: In bromancing Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron showed his own skills at the art of the deal.

• France

France broke the two-party rule, why can't we?

In 2016, Emmanuel Macron and his allies formed a new political party in France that sought to renew political life by breaking the stranglehold of two largely do-nothing parties. A year later, Mr. Macron was elected president. He’s in D.C. this week. Can America take a page from his book?

• Features

John Waters to join ranks of Meryl Streep, Robert Redford with French arts honor

One of Baltimore's finest -- director, artist and author John Waters -- has been named an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres).

By Chris Kaltenbach

Apr 16, 2018

• Opinion

Vive la France

If President Trump wants to copy the French, let's go beyond parades and follow their lead on health care.

• Opinion

Trump wants a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Does this look like America?

President Donald Trump wants a military parade, and he's making the Pentagon follow through. It's not unprecedented, but it's still not a tradition we should start. Bragging about military might is not what America is about.

• Food & Drink

French bistro Chez Hugo to open in downtown Baltimore in late February

The new restaurant from the Aromes chef will offer an $85 tasting menu for its Feb. 14 opening.

By Sarah Meehan

Feb 5, 2018

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Returning jihadists need prison, not couches

Anyone who left their home countries to join ISIS should be imprisoned for life, not allowed to return, says Rachel Marsden.

• Politics

Baltimore native Jamie McCourt sworn in as ambassador to France, Monaco

Baltimore native Jamie McCourt was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco at the White House on Monday, a White House official said.

By John Fritze

Dec 11, 2017

• Politics

Rutherford leading Maryland trade mission to Europe

Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford is leading a trade mission to Europe.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 13, 2017

• Politics

Jamie McCourt, Trump's nominee to serve as envoy to France, has deep ties to Baltimore

Jamie McCourt, a Baltimore native, will appear Wednesday before a Senate committee considering her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to France.

By John Fritze

Sep 27, 2017

• Entertainment

At Everyman Theatre, a chance meeting

What Vincent Lancisi did on his summer vacation was stumble into the creative scoop of his life.

• Harford

Diplomat from LeHavre, France, visits Havre de Grace, Md.

Mayor Bill Martin welcomed Christophe Buzzacaro, a diplomat from the city of Le Havre, France, to Havre de Grace Wednesday afternoon and took him on a tour of

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Schwarzenegger and Macron blow hot air while France swelters

France's president has criticized Donald Trump for pulling out of the Paris agreement on combating climate change, but Mr. Trump is just choosing to cut through the nonsense, says Rachel Marsden.

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Climate change is replacing war as the new pretext for imperialism

Climate change is to Europe what security threats are to America: a pretext for foreign intervention, says Rachel Marsden.

• Politics

Hogan plans trade mission to Paris and London

Gov. Larry Hogan will embark on his third trade mission this month -- visiting Paris and London in an effort to drum up business for Maryland.

By Michael Dresser

Jun 2, 2017

• Obituaries

Jacques Fein, Holocaust survivor, dies

Jacques Fein, 78, who survived being sent to a concentration camp after being hidden by a family during World War II, died May 11.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 19, 2017

• Maryland

Dick Meyer: The parties need to be over

Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected president of France, is an investment banker by training and a radical reformer by acclamation.

• Opinion

Immigration the common thread between French, American elections

In case you've been confused by the last few days of punditry, let me say outright that France is not America. For example, we recently concluded a presidential election in the United States in which many argued that it was imperative to smash the "final glass ceiling" by electing a female president. One doesn't hear that kind of talk in France about Marine Le Pen, who just came in second in the first round of presidential elections. Why is there no "ready for Marine" rhetoric? Because Ms. Le

• France

Baltimore War Memorial commemorates 100th anniversary of U.S. entering World War I

City, state and military officials and veterans laid a dozen wreaths inside the Baltimore War Memorial Building on Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entering World War I, to commemorate the 62,000 Marylanders who served in the war. On the walls surrounding the ceremony, the names of the 1,742 of them who died, including 770 Baltimoreans, remained inscribed.

By Colin Campbell

Apr 6, 2017

• Health

Hopkins' nursing school to expand with help of $2 million grant

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing was won a $2 million grant from the France-Merrick Foundation that school leaders say will mean not only an expansion and renovation of their East Baltimore building but extra volunteer commitments in the surrounding community

By Meredith Cohn

Mar 13, 2017

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: France needs a Trump of its own

Rachel Marsden asks whether France's globalist establishment will be the next to fall.

• Maryland

The sacrifice of the D-Day landings in Normandy

This year marks the 72nd commemoration of D-Day when allied forces began the campaign to retake Europe from Nazi Germany. Historians consider the D-Day campaign to be one of the largest single-day military operations in history — 160,000 troops landed on five beaches along 50 miles of Normandy on the northern coast of France, with the support of 196,000 Allied navy personnel. A total of 2,499 Americans died on June 6, 1944.

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: France's self-employed paying disproportionate share of immigration costs

No one seems to want to talk about the spiraling cost of mass migration here in Europe, says Rachel Marsden. But they should be.

• Opinion

France's burkini ban a symptom of deep discontent

The rest of the world should be paying close attention to France's burkini controversy, because this is the kind of fiasco that ensues when you blast past every exit ramp en route to total social disintegration.

• Opinion

When France went soft on terror

France's leaders epitomize the West's failure to grasp the nature of radical Islamic terrorism, Rachel Marsden writes.

• Baltimore City

Deutschland's visit to Baltimore was a local fascination, and linked to international incident

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.

By Jacques Kelly

Jul 15, 2016

• Opinion

Referendums on immigration are long overdue

Rather than being a small part of candidates' platforms, immigration deserves to stand on its own as the subject of national referendums, says Rachel Marsden.

• Opinion

Paris attacks are cause to punish real enemies, not invent false ones

For years, Americans and U.S. policymakers have made punching bags of France, says John Kass.

• Maryland

U.S. can't beat terrorism abroad by being intolerant at home

After the attacks in Paris, France, Richard Cohen of The Washington Post wrote that intolerance is our common enemy and the root of terrorism around the world. But intolerance is not limited to any nation or religion. Since the attacks in Paris, a lot of intolerance has been observed right here in America.

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: The Patti LaBelle pie phenomenon, France creates arts fund, and more

• Howard County

Local French ex-pats reflect on Nov. 13 terrorist attacks

Columbia resident Erik Rochard first got wind of the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris while he was at work, and his mind immediately turned to his home country and loved ones there. "It was hard to concentrate because I was hoping none of my good friends or family members would be among the people killed or injured," he recalled.

• Harford

Terror attacks evoke solidarity, concerns in Harford, vows not to be cowered in Paris

Parisians vow to go with their lives and not be cowered by Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in one of the city's entertainment centers, according to a former Harford County resident now living in the French capital.

By David Anderson

Nov 18, 2015

• Opinion

Nous aimons Paris

France stood with us after 9/11, and we stand with them now.

• Maryland

Paris natives reflect on Friday's attacks

When Julie Della-Maria first learned of the terrorist attacks in Paris the night of Nov. 13, she thought immediately of her brother, who lives near where one of the attacks took place, and then vast distance between him and where she lives in Sykesville. They were able to connect the next day, to her great relief. Her brother was safe, but deeply affected.

• Maryland

Military action won't be deterrent to ISIS

If 11/13 will come to be known as the French 9/11, then Europe and the United States need to think very carefully indeed how to respond to these attacks. The first thing we absolutely must recognize is that the perpetrators want the West to react with force; the greater the better