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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Impeachment won't save America; Donald Trump is only a symptom, not the problem.

Though the session opened at about noon, lawmakers representing Carroll County had been coming up with legislative agendas and crafting bills for months in preparation. Many have refined bills they introduced in the past that failed to make it and plan to reintroduce the legislation.

The Sun editorial board's run-down of what needs to happen during this year's General Assembly session and what can wait for another year.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Wednesday that the departure of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would threaten Robert Mueller's Russia investigation at a time when the integrity of the Justice Department "is under assault" by President Donald Trump.

Corporate Democrats don't share precisely the same goals as those at the grassroots level, says Robert B. Reich.

The Maryland General Assembly session: 188 members, more than 2,500 pieces of legislation, 90 days of government and politics in the nation's oldest statehouse still in active use as a seat of government.

Calling the level of violence in Baltimore “completely unacceptable,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is describing a crackdown — one that has 200 officers in a “strike force” to fight crime and expanding a program in which city criminal cases are charged federally.

Maryland's Republican lawmakers will arrive in Annapolis Wednesday for the start of the 2019 legislative session to find a bigger Democrat majority in the General Assembly. Carroll County's lawmakers see speaking out on the floor, picking apart bills and finding common ground as keys for success.

Harford County's 11-member legislative delegation, with one new senator and two new delegates, expects to tackle a range of issues, from education funding to health care, even legal hemp cultivation, when they return to Annapolis Wednesday for the 2019 Maryland General Assembly session.

All these Democrats vying for the presidential nomination in 2020 will likely be overshadowed in public attention in 2019 by the news media spotlight and attention on Mr. Trump's struggle for political survival in the Oval Office over the remaining two years of his first term.

Supporters of Donald Trump complain, with some legitimacy, that coverage of his presidency focuses more on his personal controversies and the Russia

Women hold more of Congress' 535 seats than ever before, though growth in recent years has differed along party lines. Maryland has no women in its delegation.

The new Congress assembles Thursday in Washington. Here is a look at Maryland congressional delegation members entering the 116th U.S. Congress.

In Week 2 of the federal government's 19th shutdown in four decades, there's zero willingness to compromise and little concern for the plight of furloughed workers.

After two long years of fruitlessly trying to kill Obamacare, the Republican Party and President Trump have been given a political hand grenade by a federal judge in Texas to get the job done.

Government shutdown creates anxiety for workers and closes Fort McHenry

Gov. Larry Hogan, in his role as vice-chairman of the National Governors Association, is calling on Congressional leaders not to allow a partial shutdown of the federal government.

Reed Cordish, the Baltimore businessman and former White House adviser, played a role behind the scenes building support for a criminal justice bill that passed Congress this week.

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 .

In addition to the five employees killed in June in the shootings at the Annapolis Capital, the region lost a number of notable citizens in 2018. Here, we recall some of those who left a lasting mark.

Federal public defenders in Baltimore have begun to review hundreds and maybe thousands of drug cases to identify inmates eligible for early release under a bill in Congress to reform prison terms.

The Maryland attorney general's office is seeking to preserve its suit sustaining the Affordable Care Act while challenging the legality of Matthew Whitaker's appointment as acting U.S. attorney general.

The farm bill only advanced after Republicans inserted language that barred a floor vote for the rest of 2018 on a resolution limiting U.S. intervention in war-torn Yemen. Lawmakers passed that rule 206-203 — with the votes of five Democrats, including Maryland Rep. Ruppersberger.

In Alaska, there is no end to the adventure and excitement, from railroads to history, museums, art and cultural events, the heritage of the indigenous people, wildlife, mountains, ice, snow, and sea. All presented with an unpretentious sophistication.

Reflections on Annapolis 1997 vs. 2018

The guilty plea from Donald Trump’s onetime fixer, Michael Cohen, to the charge of lying to Congress about Mr. Trump's proposed Moscow Trump Tower real-estate deal illustrates the classic singing of a mob-culture "canary."

More than a dozen Ravens players and executives write to U.S. senators backing criminal justice legislation they say would bring "much needed change."

A proposal in the farm bill that would require people to work to receive federal food assistance would unnecessarily worsen the hunger problem.

Florida Republicans made a clean sweep of statewide offices for the first time since the 1800s, says Cal Thomas.

Now that Democrats are poised to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January, taxpayers can expect a major push to achieve the "progressive"

Supporters of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election fear that acting attorney general

More than a week after the final votes were cast (but not necessarily counted), it's now looking like the Democrats had a blue wave after all, says Jonah Goldberg.

More and more lately, I have been spending my Sunday nights with Showtime, and going to bed feeling like I know more about the complicated, incredibly-polarized and Twitter-quick world of American politics and media in which we live.

I understand that there is excitement about a record 113 million people who voted last week. However, that number represents only 49 percent of eligible voters. This is an improvement from the 36 percent participation in 2014. But isn’t 36 percent a low bar?

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has filed a motion in federal court challenging President Donald Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general. Frosh’s motion in U.S. District Court in Baltimore argues the appointment is “illegal and unconstitutional.”

President Trump's long-expected firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions may be a prelude to an outrageous, blatant political crime that could make the Watergate scandal of the 1970s pale in comparison.

Results in the congressional and gubernatorial races were a mixed bag for both parties, says Jules Witcover.

Democrats cannot claim a mandate given the limits of their victory; and Republicans must strive to improve within the next two years to suffer additional defeats.

Enjoy the talk of bipartisanship because it's doomed: Voters just rewarded Democrats and Republicans alike for intransigence.

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.

Carroll County voters went to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Here's a sampling of their thoughts on the local races, the Maryland gubernatorial race and President Donald Trump, who isn't on the ballot but looms large over this election.

Gov. Larry Hogan's win in his race for re-election leaves lots of questions: How will he govern in a second term? And what do Democrats do now?

Maryland votes: Here's what to expect Tuesday on Election Day at your polling place. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Democrat Ben Jealous are at the top of their parties' tickets, along with races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state attorney general and the General Assembly.

President Trump has changed the very face of the Grand Old Party into a wrecking crew of American ideals toward immigration and recently toward citizenship itself, to maintain a presidency that has fallen into chaos and political expediency for survival.

Perhaps the time has come to move up from the least powerful form of county government to the code home rule form. It is too late to get such a change on the  2018 ballot. So Carroll will continue to have the form of government most suitable for small rural counties.

Progressive activist Jerry Segal has been denied spot on Maryland's U.S. Senate ballot. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision that Segal can't be on the ballot Nov. 6 because he lost in the Democratic primary. A "sore loser" law bars such second chances.

Robert Reich: All three branches of government are now under the control of one party controlled by Donald Trump.

Joseph D. Tydings, a Maryland lawyer and “Kennedy man” who followed his adoptive father’s footsteps into the U.S. Senate, died Monday of cancer in Washington surrounded by family. He was 90.

The staged TV production was a victory lap, a touchdown dance in the end zone, a Team Trump political rally and an in-your-face-suckers taunt from the man in the White House to all his critics.

Sen. Ben Cardin didn't take umbrage over challenges from Republican Tony Campbell and independent Neal Simon about his long tenure and effectiveness during their debate Sunday.