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Baltimore police officers received mixed reviews for their handling of citizens’ First Amendment rights in an inaugural assessment of such interactions under the city’s consent decree with the Justice Department.

International Olympic Committee officials said Thursday they were "fully satisfied" that a Russian law barring gay propaganda doesn't violate the Olympic charter's anti-discrimination language, the Washington Post reports.

Several dozen protesters rallied in Rockville and Ellicott City on Wednesday to deliver the message that even in Democratic Maryland — where six in 10 voted to re-elect President Obama last year — there are deep misgivings about U.S. involvement in another Middle East war.

Watching the debut this week of Al Jazeera America, I couldn't help but remember reviewing the first week of Erin Burnett's show on CNN in October 2011.

A new book sheds light on the Dwight Eisenhower-Richard Nixon relationship, which was replayed in Nixon's relationship with Spiro T. Agnew.

The legacy of the Catonsville Nine is that the 'single most powerful anti-war act' in 1968 still resonates.

We are protesting the hypocrisy of Governor O'Malley's policies toward the 2nd Amendment, as he commends our citizen militias of 1812-1814.

Jonah Goldberg writes that the decades-long association of conservatives with violence is unjustified.

Crowd turns out in Bel Air for free lessons and time on a shooting range as a part of "Gun Appreciation Day."

Blogger Frank James MacArthur's confrontation with police ended peacefully, unlike too many other such events in Baltimore

The U.S. government should take over the Oakland Police Department because of a chronic failure to comply with a decade-old reform settlement, attorneys overseeing the case said in court papers.

One year after the nationwide Occupy protest movement stormed the nation's consciousness and placed income inequality at the center of the nation's political discourse, members of the local Occupy Baltimore chapter said they are still working for change in local communities.

As the Occupy movement turns 1, it is not the spirit of the protests but the money of the 1 percent that is animating the presidential campaign.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to name former Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts as Baltimore's next police commissioner, sources say.

Brett Bidle, a Frederick County town councilman and tea party supporter, has a grand adventure

Jules Witcover says the failed recall in Wisconsin is a heavy blow to both labor unions and Democrats

Breaking news in Baltimore Tuesday morning include a police officer being charged with a sex offense, a man accused of pulling a movie theater fire alarm, and city regulation of valet parking.

Members of the Occupy Baltimore movement will be protesting the G8 Summit of world leaders at Camp David this weekend from the nearby town of Thurmont.

Liberals in the U.S. are blind to the economic problems facing this country

Voter revolt against austerity measures in Europe could prove contagious on this side of the Atlantic

Local officials, business owners, police and protesters in Frederick County are unsure what the G-8 Summit, scheduled to be held at Camp David on May 18 and 19, will bring. It could be a boon or a bust.

Local officials, business owners, police and protesters in Frederick County are unsure what the G-8 Summit, scheduled to be held at Camp David on May 18 and 19, will bring. It could be a boon or a bust.

A state park near Camp David in Frederick County will be closed to the public for three days next month while world leaders gather at the presidential retreat for the G-8 Summit, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Protesters held signs outside of Anne Arundel county government headquarters Monday, criticizing an embattled county executive indicted this month.

Anne Arundel County activists plan to publicly denounce on Monday "a climate of insensitivity and intolerance" that members of the Anne Arundel County Council have fostered, an Annapolis civil rights leader wrote Saturday.

Mitt Romney's disinterest in the "very poor" raises questions about poverty, safety nets and whether Republicans "get" either

For Occupy Baltimore activists like Jabriera Handy, civil disobedience should be seen as a legitimate form of protest

Five groups submitted bids to manage Baltimore recreation centers Wednesday, the latest chapter in the city's efforts to place the centers in private hands.

Occupy Baltimore is more interested in media attention than accomplishing anything.

Members protest proposed juvenile detention center

Civil rights and "occupy" protesters started out from Baltimore to march to Washington to protest economic inequality.

Sun coverage of Union Square protest is light on crucial information

A Baltimore woman was evicted from her Union Square home a day after the Occupy movement staged a protest.

Occupy Baltimore protesters shift focus from encampment to block woman's eviction in home foreclosure case.

Normal Lear: Activist and TV producer Norman Lear says the demonstrations of 2011 fit into a noble pattern of progressive protest in America

Jonah Goldberg: Everyone from Charlie Sheen to Occupy Wall Street parlayed failure into something profound

Occupy Baltimore got noticed and the protest continues to have influence

Jules Witcover: Obama fulfills a campaign pledge, but the country's future is uncertain

Baltimore handled the Occupy protesters correctly (and respectfully) down to their eviction from McKeldin Square

Baltimore police in riot gear moved in full force but peacefully evicted protesters with the Occupy Baltimore movement from the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square during the early morning hours Tuesday.

Both the police and protesters deserve credit for the peaceful clearing of Baltimore's Occupy encampment

Video: Baltimore Police peacefully evicted protestors with the Occupy Baltimore movement from the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square early Tuesday morning.

Occupy Wall Street protesters should set up camp on Capitol Hill to discuss insider trading