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A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

JET magazine, the pocket-sized source of news about blacks since 1951, has bowed to the ages and gone digital with a new app. But its debut digital issue this month makes clear that JET is no longer the magazine for anyone who claims to be at least middle-aged.

David Horsey: The woman who played a dumb blonde on Saturday Night Live is apparently as dumb in real life

The snarky columnist is less concerned with the sports' tedium than the fact that's its played beyond U.S. borders

Americans fought for years for equal access to the right to vote that is today so taken for granted that it is blithely ignored, even as sinister forces conspire to close off the ballot box to thousands, perhaps millions.

Oklahoma, which rarely saw earthquakes, now tops all 50 states in the number of tremors per year because of fracking

As one former House member remarked, managing the current House GOP is akin to managing a pet alligator.

President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative is encountering opposition because it is too limited.

It's doubtful anyone attending Colonial Players 65th season closer would react with "been there, done that" to playwright Sarah Ruhl's "Dead Man's Cell Phone."

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

When Samuel L. Morison of Crofton this week with stealing documents from the United States Navy's archive in Washington, it was a rare event for the archive.

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.

Dying is too easy in Baltimore, and neither death nor we should be proud. Even before summer officially arrives, nearly 90 people have been slain. Sages of street life here forecast long hot deadly days ahead.

The nation's political divide is not all that dissimilar to the one America faced 150 years ago.

The red and blue divide today is not unlike the split between blue and gray 150 years ago.

Mitch McConnell may have survived, but don't expect a turnaround in the GOP agenda.

While Cornell William Brooks may be a surprising choice to lead the NAACP, it takes neither an Einstein nor a soothsayer to know what challenges lie ahead for the clergyman-lawyer little known beyond his social justice network in New Jersey.

The story has been told so many times it's taken on a life of its own: Black-eyed Susans don't bloom in time for the Preakness, so the winning horse is instead draped with a blanket of yellow daisies whose centers have been painted so they look like Maryland's state flower.

Peter Pan prequel by Rick Elice, based on Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson book , brings its inventive theatricality to Baltimore's Hippodrome as part of national touring production.

What Lancisi devised for 2014-2015 is a promising mix of three Baltimore premieres, including Lynn Nottage's "Ruined," and three vintage plays, including Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit."

Johns Hopkins University will bestow an honorary degree next month on Edith Windsor, the woman who last year successfully challenged the constitutionality of the federal law banning same-sex marriage. Windsor's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, will also receive the honor.

Movie sequence crucial to play about race, family and Hollywood

Lawrence Wright's 'Camp David,' about the Jimmy Carter-led Middle East peace negotiations in 1978, gets premiere at Arena Stage with cast headed by Richard Thomas.

The 2014-15 Baltimore Speakers Series will include appearances by Alan Alda, Dan Rather, David McCullough, David Gergen, Ken Burns, Julia Gillard and Olympia Snowe.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?" wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker. This is all too true for sisters and Mt. Hebron graduates Stephanie and Jen Merson.

the New York Chamber Soloists promises to assert itself on stage for a Candlelight Concert Society program on Saturday, April 5, at 7 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

"You Can't Take It With You" continues through Sunday, April 13, at Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St., with Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m., and matinee performances Sundays, March 30, and April 13, at 2 p.m.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein didn't mind when the intelligence community was violating the privacy of ordinary people.

Goucher College announced Wednesday that Jose Antonio Bowen, dean of the arts school and a music professor at Southern Methodist University in Texas, will be its next president.

I stopped paying much attention to Lifetime after the cable channel branded itself ¿Television for Women¿ in the 1990s and started offering exploitative made-for-TV movies like the 1997 production of ¿My Stepson, My Lover¿ with Rachel Ward.

HBO's Martin Luther King miniseries is going to have a strong Baltimore flavor with David Simon confirming Wednesday that he will be involved in the project based on the books of Baltimore author Taylor Branch.

Gregory P. Kane, a former Baltimore Sun columnist, died of cancer Tuesday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 62.

This is unsettling for Seattle. A football dynasty in a city of book readers and mountain climbers? Somebody may need to pass a joint around -- which is no problem. Up there, it's legal.

The new year has ushered in excellent local presentations by Bay Theatre, Colonial Players and Compass Rose, raising the bar to augur well for future months.

The title given to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops offering this weekend strikes just the right note — "Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation."

Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park announced partnerships this week with a Silicon Valley-based startup to offer new online-only certificates in fields like data science and cybersecurity.

The film and television industry is abandoning California for states and countries that offer better incentives

Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981, gets an insightful production with a tight-knit cast at Everyman Theatre.