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• Maryland

Ex-Senate staffer from Ellicott City gets two months behind bars for lying to FBI

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 .

• Opinion

Dems won the House, let the investigations begin!

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.

• Opinion

Maybe you didn't notice amid all the Trump news, but the left is imploding

President Trump is all the media cares about, and the left is getting away with despicable behavior, John Kass writes.

• Politics

Ex-Senate aide from Ellicott City charged with lying about reporter contacts placed on supervised release

A former employee of the Senate intelligence committee, one of the congressional panels investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, has

• Opinion

Witcover: Congressional defeat is another leak in the Trump bubble

 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.

• Opinion

#holdthememo

Americans should be skeptical of Nunes memo and 'deep state' conspiracy theories intended to shield the president.

• Politics

President Trump's first year plays heavily into Maryland politics

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.

By John Fritze

Dec 28, 2017

• Opinion

The lesson of the Russian Facebook ads in Maryland: They're getting smarter

The Russian Facebook ads targeted at Maryland had no impact on the election. What's worrisome is that the Russians seem to realize that.

• Politics

Russian ads placed in Maryland might have been precursor to broader campaign

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.

By John Fritze

Nov 29, 2017

• Politics

House committee releases Russian-linked ad depicting Freddie Gray

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.

By John Fritze

Nov 1, 2017

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy in Crisis: Coincidence and Quantum Politics in the Age of Trump

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

• Opinion

Senate health care bill: What about bipartisanship?

Time for Republicans to reach across the aisle on health care.

• Baltimore City Paper

Yo Senators, Quit Being Such Dicks: On Sessions’ sexist stonewalling of Russia hearings

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

• Politics

Former FBI director James Comey says White House spread 'lies' after his ouster

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.

By John Fritze

Jun 8, 2017

• Opinion

The candid, credible Comey

James Comey makes a credible case that President Trump has crossed a line

• Politics

Maryland advocates resist efforts to target Medicaid in federal funding fights

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.

• News

FBI director wrote Trump wanted Flynn investigation ended

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

• Opinion

Alternative facts of the week: The Comey firing

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.

• Opinion

Focus on Trump shouldn't give other Republicans a free pass

Hillary Clinton's campaign focus on Trump's unique failures gives other Republicans a pass and shortchanges her goals.

• Crime

Chinese hackers got data on millions of U.S. federal workers, officials fear

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.

• Opinion

Taming 'Big Brother'

The Senate has an opportunity to rein in the NSA's secret spying program

• Opinion

Reining in the surveillance state

Congress must amend the U.S. Patriot Act to protect Americans' privacy rights

• Politics

Mikulski child care bill poised for final approval

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.

• Politics

Senate to consider changes to federal day care program

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.

• Politics

Senate to consider changes to federal day care program

• Maryland

Mitch Edelman: Shutdown is nothing to be happy about

• Politics

House passes back pay bill for fed employees

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.

• Politics

House passes back pay bill for fed employees

• Opinion

Obamacare defunded or delayed

Republicans have nothing to gain and Americans much to lose if the federal government is shut down by another fight over health care reform

• Affordable Care Act

Obamacare defunded or delayed

• Opinion

Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner

Can a charm offensive by the president bridge the cultural divide with the GOP?

• Opinion

Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner

• Maryland

John Dickerson: Obama's schmoozing the GOP again

• Opinion

The Tubman Park

Despite budget woes, Congress should endorse plan for Harriet Tubman park

• Opinion

The Tubman Park

• Mental Health

Upcoming editorial: Veterans should not be exempt from the Brady Bill

• U.S. Senate

It's about time

• Republican Party

Pounding out a platform

• U.S. Senate

Panel approves Kennedy tobacco bill

• Flu

A booster shot for pandemic preparedness

• Barack Obama

Anniversary of Katrina spurs officials to visit New Orleans

• Republican Party

Coming primaries are critical to divided Republicans Buchanan, Alexander, Forbes unbalance equation

• John Lewis

U.S. HOUSE WINNERS ELECTION 1994

• Elections

Early returns in key Senate, House races could foreshadow voting trends in U.S. CAMPAIGN 1994

• Elections

MAKING DEMOCRATIC DISTINCTIONS IN N.C. Perceptions may be the key to winning races CAMPAIGN 1994 -- THE RACE FOR CONTROL OF CONGRESS

• Elections

DEMOCRATS FINALLY FIND CAMPAIGN THEME But seizing on GOP's 'contract' seen as odd politics

• Elections

N.C. RACE MIRRORS WOES ACROSS SOUTH