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Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "founders of ISIS" is not only a good example of his reckless fear-mongering but also his complete lack of understanding about true threats to national security.

This week’s count extends a day and is published late because of the holiday. Baltimore went five days without a murder last week, while police made four murder

Baltimore, Chicago and other cities are a case study on the limits of local gun control, not its perceived failure

The more distraught we get about the name-calling, wall-building tone of this year's presidential campaign, the more it helps to revisit a national campaign of half a century ago, which started out mired in a similar meanness, but then demonstrated how to rise above it.

Brianna Benlolo left behind a child, Tyler Johnson, a cause. Families of the co-workers killed by Damon Marcus Aguilar, who then killed himself, remember the Jan. 25, 2014, Mall in Columbia shootings.

The city's problem isn't guns, it's gangs

Maryland's assault weapons ban makes no sense.

Killings like that of 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott will continue until we stand up to the gun lobby.

The ruling upholding Maryland's assault weapons ban is in line with other post-Heller cases.

Build on the Brady law

Michael Peroutka is white, smart, and rich, but it's doubtful that many of his potential constituents have used their advantages in the way he long has: to advance a militant theocratic agenda.

Not sorry to see Beretta leave

Beretta's move to Tennessee is about more than gun laws, and that should be the focus of debate in the Md. governor's race.

Beretta USA, the American arm of an iconic Italian gun maker, said Tuesday that it would move all of its U.S. manufacturing activities from Prince George's County to Tennessee because of the gun control law the Maryland General Assembly passed in 2013.

Lawyers for the state and gun rights advocates sparred in federal court Tuesday about the government's power to hem in the Second Amendment to ward off mass shootings.

Tougher gun laws needed for domestic abusers

Contrary to Vincent DeMarco's assertions, tough gun laws will only increase violent crime.

The data — and Maryland voters — support handgun licensing as a way to reduce gun violence.

Government has a role, but the the real answer to inner city killings lies more in the church than the state, Cal Thomas writes.

Gun control isn't the reason for declining Baltimore homicides.

Tougher gun laws are helping reduce homicides in Baltimore

Hours after winning their parties' nominations for governor, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and businessman Larry Hogan exchanged the first salvos in November's race for governor.

Brian E. Frosh, a veteran state senator from Montgomery County who championed gun control and environmental protection, led two opponents by wide margins in early voting in the race for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general in Tuesday's primary.

As votes were being counted Tuesday night, politicians and poll workers estimated that the turnout for the primary was among the lowest in recent history.

A little-noticed and highly technical Supreme Court decision is opening the way for dozens of federal inmates from Maryland to seek reduced sentences — even though trial judges found they had violent criminal pasts.

Redistricting since the last election has significantly altered the boundaries of Legislative District 35. What was formerly an all-Harford County district encompassing Abingdon, Bel Air and the northern third of the county has been shifted eastward to take in western and northern Cecil County, with the Bel Air area and Abingdon moving into neighboring District 34.

Three incumbent Republicans running for the three seats in the House of Delegates in District 7, which encompasses western Harford County and eastern Baltimore County, are being challenged in their party primary by two other candidates, one with Harford County ties who has been campaigning across the district for months and ruffling the incumbents' feathers in the process.

The Sun makes endorsements in several additional races in Baltimore City.

The Sun endorses in the Anne Arundel county executive primary and other races.

While most of Howard's state legislative races this primary season are packed with candidates vying for a chance to head to Annapolis, the county's council races have been relatively uneventful, with one notable exception.

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

Doug Gansler calls himself a "fighter" for Marylanders on jobs, education and the environment. In his biggest fight, he says he's taking on the Democratic establishment as he seeks the Democratic nomination for governor.

The Sun makes endorsements in selected Baltimore City races.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley was in New Hampshire on Friday to rub shoulders with influential Democrats in the early-voting state as he begins to test the waters for a presidential run in 2016.

Sen. Brian Frosh, Del. Jon Cardin and Del. Aisha Braveboy – three Democrats vying to be Maryland's next attorney general – stress different strengths they would bring to the office.