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• Maryland

Photo of weeping Maryland immigrant's West Point graduation goes viral

The tears streamed down Alix Idrache's face. In the photograph, the streaks reach almost to the high collar of his dress gray uniform.

By Ian Duncan

May 26, 2016

• Maryland

Female midshipmen to wear trousers, not skirts, at graduation

When female midshipmen in the Naval Academy Class of 2016 stride out onto the field at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium for commencement in May, they'll be wearing trousers, not skirts, officials said Tuesday.

By Ian Duncan

Feb 23, 2016

• Maryland

Naval Academy bests rivals in NSA cyber competition

In a Columbia office with a Jolly Roger hanging from the ceiling and internet cables sprouting madly from the desks, a team of National Security Agency hackers was trying Wednesday to take down networks set up by military cadets.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 17, 2015

• Opinion

Is Panetta's hit on Obama a boon for Hillary?

Panetta has paved the way for Hillary Clinton to become the candidate with a warrior's heart, writes David Horsey.

• Opinion

Chemical weapons cover-up reignites old argument

The Bush administration withheld from troops information about old bombs and rockets in Iraq

By Jules Witcover

Oct 20, 2014

• Opinion

Teach math like the military does

Teach math like the military does

• Opinion

Ebola is no Spanish Flu [Commentary]

The medical community has learned much about preventing epidemics since the deadly influenza spread of 1918, making an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. less likely.

• Maryland

Administration's priorities skewed

• Opinion

Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex [Letter]

President Obama is right to beware the military-industrial complex

• Harford

The long battle for the ideals of equality [Editorial]

Though recognition that all are equal remains an ideal, that ideal is closer to being realized today in the U.S. than ever before, thanks to sacrifices and heroics by the likes of Sgt. Hilton on and off the field of battle.

• Opinion

Pact with Afghanistan [Editorial]

The U.S. agreement to stay in the country beyond 2014 isn't a blank check for an indefinite U.S. troop presence there

• Howard County

Last picture show screens outdoors at Wine Bin [Ellicott City]

The Wine Bin in historic Ellicott City will host its last outdoor summer movie, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (PG), on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m.

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: The CDC gets it wrong on e-cigs, more trouble for the B-1, and more

• Opinion

Risks of war [Editorial]

Congress and the president must not let politics dictate our strategy for combating ISIS — and they must make sure the public understands what's at stake.

• Maryland

Alliances will bring consequences

• Wars and Interventions

Memoir recounts how Robert Timberg rebuilt his life after being disfigured by land-mine blast in Vietnam

"Blue-Eyed Boy" recounts how Timberg rebuilt his life after being severely injured in a land mine explosion in Vietnam

• Opinion

Commander-in-chief deserves support [Letter]

President Obama unfairly criticized for his approach to combating ISIS

• Colleges and Universities

Hopkins holds onto 12th in U.S. News rankings

There were few surprises for local colleges and universities in the oft-quoted U.S. News and World Report annual rankings released Tuesday.

• Opinion

A cautious president or a careless one? [Commentary]

Obama must be just as cautious in what he says about U.S. military strategy toward ISIS as he is executing it.

• Anne Arundel

At gathering in Arundel, Maryland Muslim leaders condemn militants

Sickened by the murders of American journalists at the hands of terrorists, local Muslim groups banded together Wednesday to condemn the actions of Islamic State militants.

• Opinion

Obama needs no more 'red lines' [Commentary]

The president can no longer set any foreign policy limits that restrict his options.

• Opinion

Don't tell Freeman Hrabowski what to do [Letter]

Newspaper's efforts to pressure Freeman Hrabowski to become chancellor are inappropriate

• Maryland

Lt. Col. Gallagher graduates

Lt. Col. K. Weedon Gallagher has graduated from the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks and earned a master's degree in strategic studies.

• Sun Investigates

Md. police receive millions in military gear

Local police departments in Maryland have received more than $12 million in excess equipment from the U.S. military — from a $400,000 "mine resistant vehicle" to a set of a dozen spoons valued at $3.06 apiece — under a federal program that has come under bipartisan scrutiny.

• Harford

Women's bodies found stuffed in trash in Joppatowne [25 years ago]

Two women were strangled to death, stuffed in garbage cans and discarded in the trash of a Joppatowne grocery store 25 years ago this week

• Opinion

Where's the outrage over radical Islam's slaughter of Christians? [Letter]

Where's the outrage over radical Islam's slaughter of Christians?

• Opinion

Turning point in Iraq [Editorial]

The U.S. can't stand by as ISIS militants overrun Iraq and slaughter thousands of innocent civilians in its drive to impose an extreme form of Islamic law

• Harford

Aberdeen Proving Ground needs to be able to stand on its merits [Editorial]

The prospect of Harford County's economy losing in excess of 4,000 military and defense contracting jobs associated with various activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground is as unsavory a scenario that could be visited on the local economy.

• Opinion

Misconceptions about Israel's war in Gaza [Letter]

Misconceptions about Israel's war in Gaza

• Harford

Death of U.S. general in Kabul hits home at Aberdeen Proving Ground

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene had served more than three decades in uniform without a combat tour when he got the assignment last year: He was wanted in Kabul to help train the Afghan National Security Forces.

• Harford

General killed in Afghanistan was 'source of inspiration' while serving at Aberdeen Proving Ground

Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. official to die in Afghanistan since 2001, spent about four years leading two major organizations at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

• Military Equipment

University of Maryland opens drone test site

The long-planned site is to be based near Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Southern Maryland, long a key research site for the Navy

• Opinion

Cardin, Mikulski should call for ending U.S. aid to Israel [Letter]

Cardin, Mikulski should call for ending U.S. aid to Israel

• Israel

Americans find meaning in Israeli military service

Thousands of American Jews have signed up to fight for Israel since the creation of the modern state in 1948. The Israel Defense Forces puts the number now on active duty at about 1,000, including 20 from Baltimore.

• Opinion

Gone, never forgotten [Commentary]

War is still not over for some families whose loved ones were classified as missing in action or as prisoners of war who never returned home. In the Korean War, which ended 61 years ago this week, 8,000 service members were classified as POW/MIA, and the recovery of their remains has been stalled.

• Obituaries

Brian Power-Waters, aviator and competitive senior athlete

Brian Power-Waters, whose boyhood dream of becoming an aviator led to a long career as a military and commercial pilot and, at age 78, took him back to the skies in ultralight planes and hang gliders, died July 21 after surgery at Shore Medical Center in Chestertown. He was 91.

• Opinion

The Obama doctrine under fire [Commentary]

Barack Obama may need to put a bit of John Wayne in his foreign policy words right now.

• Maryland

Female USNA grad named to Blue Angels squadron

When your father's a pilot, your paternal uncles are pilots and both your grandfathers are pilots, you likely grow up with hopes of someday being a, well, pilot.

• Opinion

#Sendthemback [Commentary]

The violence the children are fleeing in Central America is not our problem. It was our problem in the 1980s, but Americans have overwhelmingly decided that it isn't our problem now.

• Sports

Ravens coach John Harbaugh setting the tone on a new season

Over the past six months, Harbaugh has stoically moved on from the least successful year of his head-coaching career. He overhauled his coaching staff, executed a review of the organization's ways and while privately fuming, he served as a public supporter to several of his troubled players.

• Towson University

Towson U. recognized by NSA

• Obituaries

Terence T. Finn, author and retired NASA executive, dies at 71

Terence T. Finn, a retired NASA executive whose passion for military history led him to write four books on the subject, died June 27 of complications from a rare blood disorder. The Chestertown resident was 71.

• Anne Arundel

Northrup Grumman to break ground on Linthicum space facility

• Opinion

Republicans need to lead, not just complain

Democrats have convictions, albeit the wrong ones; Republicans need to answer with a call to restore what is great about America, Cal Thomas writes.

• Maryland

Death toll rises in southern Afghanistan battle

• Harford

75 years of history at Belcamp-Riverside

Looking out toward the shore of Bush River while traveling on Route 40, just south of Aberdeen, is a community that made history 75 years ago. We used to call it Belcamp; now it is called Riverside.

• Syria

Obama seeks aid for rebels in Syria

• Opinion

In Middle East, U.S. must focus on diplomacy, not military intervention [Letter]

Obama administration's choice to engage, not escalate, in Syria and Iraq is the only viable response to complex problem

• Maryland

Stocks end lower as traders sell blue chips

• Opinion

Tethered blimps are needed [Letter]

APG tethered blimps necessary to spot potential rogue missile with a nuclear payload