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Dissent and protest, my fellow Americans, is in the very DNA of this country. Colin Kaepernick is therefore the ultimate patriot, caring enough about his very flawed nation to call it out for its failings and shaming the rest of us into engaging with the issues he raises.

If Mr. Trump sticks to policies and not his personality, he could close the gap in opinion polls, says Cal Thomas.

Simple tests already used regularly to assess kidney function and damage could also help doctors predict who will suffer heart disease, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found.

Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.

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Given how frequent mass shootings have become, you'd think gun violence, not baseball, is the national pastime, David Horsey writes.

Maryland's economy has grown almost without fail in the last quarter century, ticking up year after year. But 2013 was not among them.

Latest report shows state's lackluster GDP is not the fault of high taxes or regulations but reduced federal government spending

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — who has gained a national reputation for welcoming Hispanic families to the city — joined a growing chorus of Maryland officials Tuesday raising concerns about a proposal to turn a vacant office building into a shelter for immigrant children.

Samuel L. Morison, 69, is charged with theft of government property

The tea party may think it's fighting big government, but it's in the pocket of big business.

A new effort is underway to increase the number of Hispanic and Latino employees within the federal workforce, where they remain among the most underrepresented minority groups despite being one of the nation's fastest growing demographics.

Nearly 20 years afterward, the Kennedy Krieger Institute continues to defend itself against lawsuits alleging that a study it sponsored seeking less costly methods of remediating lead paint in homes poisoned some of the children whose families were recruited to participate in the research.

Can faith ever truly be faith if it is imposed by a nation state's force of law or threat of violence?

The four Republican candidates focused their fire on the O'Malley administration and avoided criticizing each other as they met Saturday night in the first televised debate of this year's GOP primary contest.

Conservative parties with platforms like the tea party's are on the rise in Britain, France and elsewhere in Europe.

After Edward Snowden's Wednesday interview on NBC, the jury is still out on whether he's a patriot or a traitor

Dispute over PG County cross turns on misinterpretation of First Amendment

With $50 million a year in county revenues on the line, the U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will hear a challenge to a Maryland court ruling that some taxes on out-of-state income are collected in violation of the Constitution.

The legal fight over a World War I memorial cross in Bladensburg is the latest front of a national battle over the separation of church and state.

Some privatization may be key to resolving long-standing faults in Veterans Administration health care.

Over the past quarter-century, veterans appropriations bills have been passed on schedule only three times. For the other 22 years, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has had to wait days, weeks and often months before knowing what its funding would be.

An analysis of traffic fatalities in the last decade found Baltmore ranked as the 28th most dangerous city in the nation for pedestrians, out of 51 major metropolitan areas.

Baltimore Police said that the Police Unity Tour, an event that recognizes officers that have died on duty, will stop in the city on Sunday.

As Maryland looks to re-energize its economy amid federal budget cuts and slow growth in the wake of the recession, the candidates vying to be the next governor each developed distinct plans for how to improve Maryland's business climate and promote job creation.

Dan Rodricks gets it wrong in his umbrage over the Supreme Court prayer ruling.

Supreme Court decision allowing sectarian prayer at government meetings is not faithful to founders' vision of America

University of Maryland, College Park President Wallace Loh has made it his top priority to remake the college into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, pushing the strategy not just in the business school but in almost every corner.

The stories of three people who found more than something to occupy their time in retirement. They found new passions, avocations that add life to their retirement.

In recent weeks, the web has been buzzing with excitement over Palcohol, the powdered alcohol that can turn water into vodka, rum or any one of four specialty cocktails. While it remains unclear when – or if -- the product will hit stores, due in part to some backtracking by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), states including Vermont and Minnesota are already moving to ban it.

The First Amendment does not protect Donald Sterling from the consequences of his speech.