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- President Barack Obama must take stronger steps to confront Vladimir Putin.
- Amid the storm created by Russian President Vladimir Putin's extralegal incursion into the Crimean peninsula, the U.S. and Europe risk allowing an event equally important to Ukraine's future to fall out of focus: the May 25 election in which the divided country is set to select a new president. The credibility, inclusivity and peacefulness of this event are vital to U.S. and European interests.
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- Local officials in Thurmont and elsewhere in Frederick County say they're losing hope that they'll be reimbursed for the cost of preparing for and hosting a summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations.
- 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.
- Vladimir Putin skips the G8 summit in an effort to show Obama who's boss.
- Despite concerns about large protests around the G-8 summit at Camp David, only a few people turned out to hold signs in Thurmont Friday. A few dozen more listened to lectures at a public library in Frederick.
- In a standoff that might require delicate diplomacy to resolve, officials in Western Maryland are pressing the federal government to reconsider its refusal to help pay for local security costs for this week's G-8 summit at Camp David.
- Leaders meeting for the G8 summit should remember the world's poor
- 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.
- It's been more than a decade since hot air ballooning was dealt a huge blow in the aftermath of Sept. 11, when concern for national safety was at an all-time high and many flights were grounded.
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- 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.
- Frederick County officials welcomed news that President Barack Obama will host this year's G-8 summit at Camp David — while acknowledging the potential for protests of the sort that have accompanied past gatherings of the leaders of the Group of Eight most developed nations.