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- James Wolfe of Ellicott City, a former Senate intelligence committee staffer, was sentenced on Thursday to serve two months behind bars after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI .
- Now that the Democrats have won the House, but not the Senate, a chorus of smarty-pants will insist the president faces only nuisance House investigations, no real check. That is not true, and here’s why.
- President Trump is all the media cares about, and the left is getting away with despicable behavior, John Kass writes.
- A former employee of the Senate intelligence committee, one of the congressional panels investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, has
- The upset victory of a Democrat over a Republican heavily backed by President Trump in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District has pumped new optimism into voters looking to November's midterm elections to rid the country of the man in the Oval Office.
- Americans should be skeptical of Nunes memo and 'deep state' conspiracy theories intended to shield the president.
- President Donald J. Trump remains deeply unpopular in Maryland, but his tumultuous first year in the White House left an unmistakable imprint on state politics.
- The Russian Facebook ads targeted at Maryland had no impact on the election. What's worrisome is that the Russians seem to realize that.
- Analysts say hundreds of Facebook ads targeted at users in Maryland in the months following the city’s riots in 2015 might have been a dry run for the broader, national Russian social media campaign that followed.
- A social media advertisement targeted at Maryland that was paid for by an entity with ties to Russia featured a photograph of Freddie Gray and the words "never forget," according to a copy made public Wednesday by a House committee.
- A few moments before Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chair and co-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee respectively, came out to present an update
- Time for Republicans to reach across the aisle on health care.
- If you didn’t know, via obscure Latin etymology, that the word “testify” is related to the word “testicles,” you sure could have guessed it from watching Senate
- Speaking at a highly anticipated hearing on Capitol Hill, ousted FBI director James B. Comey told lawmakers Thursday that the Trump administration had spread "lies, plain and simple" and "defamed" him and the agency after his firing last month.
- James Comey makes a credible case that President Trump has crossed a line
- With some 75 million beneficiaries nationwide, including 1.3 million in Maryland, proposed cuts to the 52-year-old Medicaid program have become a key stumbling block as the Senate considers the health care legislation approved by the Republican-controlled House in May.
- The White House confronted Tuesday what could be the most serious allegation to date against President Trump amid reports that in February he asked the FBI
- The ouster of FBI director is full of White House lies, justifications and obfuscation designed to distract the public from an egregious abuse of power.
- Hillary Clinton's campaign focus on Trump's unique failures gives other Republicans a pass and shortchanges her goals.
- Hackers based in China may have obtained personnel data on as many as 4 million federal employees in a large-scale cyberattack uncovered this spring, administration officials said Thursday.
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- Congress must amend the U.S. Patriot Act to protect Americans' privacy rights
- WASHINGTON -- Child care workers would undergo more stringent background checks and states would be required to spend more to improve the quality of day care under legislation crafted by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski that cleared a key vote Thursday and is poised for final approval on Monday.
- Child care workers would undergo stiffer background checks and states would spend more to improve the quality of day care under a sweeping, bipartisan bill crafted by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski that is set for a vote in the Senate as early as this week.
- The House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation Saturday to provide back pay to an estimated 800,000 furloughed federal employees once the government shutdown ends.
- Republicans have nothing to gain and Americans much to lose if the federal government is shut down by another fight over health care reform
- Can a charm offensive by the president bridge the cultural divide with the GOP?
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