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During an Orioles season that has been tough to watch, the United States women's soccer team has been a breath of fresh air.

The White House attempts an "alternative fact" first - make a U.S. Navy destroyer disappear in plain sight.

California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell held a roundtable discussion about gun violence reduction with Baltimore nonprofit leaders and activists Friday.

How many Americans feel like their mental health is being damaged daily by an intemperate bully in the White House?

A growing list of athletes have declined invitations from President Donald J. Trump to visit the White House as a stance against his racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Sadly, Tiger Woods isn't one of them.

Letters published in the May 4 edition of the Carroll County Times.

While Trump wants us to play down the significance of Russia’s assistance in his election, he also wants to blame former President Barack Obama for Russia’s interference.

President Trump and Congressional Democrats talk a big game on infrastructure but where the rubber hits the road is the federal gas tax, which is frozen at 1993 levels.

What April Ryan’s call highlights is the way lying, smearing and slander have been institutionalized by the Trump White House to an extent not even done in Washington by the senator infamous for slander and lies, the late Joe McCarthy, of Wisconsin.

Congressional review of Trump tax returns isn't a 'dangerous road' but denying a lawful request from the legislative branch could be.

Kirstjen Nielsen was in an impossible position. There are 22 agencies reporting into DHS, but her job performance was only ever going to be based on immigration.

President Trump trots out an old, well-worn - and false - excuse for child separation policy: Obama did it first.

President Trump goes full blowhard on the subject of wind power and its heretofore unknown link to cancer.

Mueller's criminal prosecutions may be coming to an end but it's mixed news, at best, for Donald Trump

Can Donald Trump recognize anti-Semitism? When he hears it, perhaps, just not when he participates in it.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit the Port of Baltimore on Friday to see technology that customs agents use to scan shipping containers, trucks, rail cars and cargo for illegal narcotics and weapons, the White House says.

State of Union guests on Tuesday night will include a Maryland man and a Delaware sixth-grader allegedly bullied because his last name is Trump.

While the president is urging our intelligence workers to “go back to school” in grammatically incorrect Tweets, they are saving lives and protecting us from extremely dangerous threats. Intelligence is the best defense against terrorism, nuclear weapons, cyber attacks and financial crimes.

Cal Thomas: Media focus on female politicians skews liberal, with little attention for conservative women.

The Dulaney String Quartet got to perform at the annual Governor's Holiday Open House in Annapolis, and B.C. Brewery is causing a stir in Hunt Valley.

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.

Remember when containing Iran's influence was so important to President Trump or how he ridiculed his predecessor for withdrawing from Iraq in 2011? Suddenly, it's all reversed.

For the major media, it would appear the only good Republican is a dead Republican, says Cal Thomas.

A planned trip by President Donald Trump to the Broadway East neighborhood in East Baltimore was canceled this week. While a discussion of "opportunity zones" for investment, like Broadway East, will take place at the White House instead, residents say Trump missed an opportunity to see the need.

The Opportunity Zone program promoted by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner — both senior White House advisers — could also benefit them financially, an Associated Press investigation found.

What was once planned as a Baltimore event for President Donald Trump to discuss urban revitalization has turned into a White House meeting with just two confirmed Marylanders — neither of them elected officials. Mayor Catherine Pugh, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings and Gov. Larry Hogan don't plan to go.

Does President Donald Trump really want to revitalize inner cities in Baltimore and elsewhere? The record suggests he'd prefer to use them as foils for dog-whistle attacks on African-Americans.

President Donald Trump will attend Saturday's Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.

Let’s put aside all the heated rhetoric and personality-oriented-Trump-v-Acosta framing and ask more fundamental questions, such as: With all the disinformation and lies coming from that podium in the White House press room, what are we getting from these sessions anyway?

Susan Burdette was elected, by her fellow commissioners, to her fourth year as chair of the Bel Air town board, and Brendan Hopkins to a second year as vice chair Monday evening.

The White House has lacked Maryland representation since former Gov. Spiro Agnew’s vice presidential tenure came to an end in 1973 during President Richard Nixon’s second term. In 2020, that could change.

Proposed rules severely restricting where and when protests can happen in Washington should not go forward.

The ruling is a big victory for CNN and the press against Trump, who has been lashing out more than ever since the midterm elections. But larger issues in the war that Trump has declared on media remain.

The problem isn't an unfair press, the problem is Donald J. Trump is a horrific president.

In the conflict between Trump and the media, it's not the president who bullies and tries to intimidate.

CNN is suing President Donald Trump and top aides on the White House communications team in an effort to get correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials immediately restored, the network announced this morning.

If President Trump is as innocent as he claims, he ought to leave Mueller probe in the hands of Rod Rosenstein.

Even by the contentious standards of President Trump’s generally troubled relationship with press, what happened Wednesday at the White House between him and reporters from CNN, NBC, PBS and American Urban Radio Networks is truly shocking. His response to CNN's Jim Acosta is beyond the pale.

What critics and viewers are saying about the sixth (and final) season of 'House of Cards.'

After a brief call for more civility in response to the flurry of bombs sent to past and current Democratic leaders, President Trump still clings to his campaign against the press as "the enemy of the people."

Attorney General Brian Frosh has emerged as the Maryland Democratic party’s chief opponent to President Donald Trump. But to Republican challenger Craig Wolf, Frosh’s focus on Washington has let down Maryland residents. Frosh says when he's protecting Marylanders, "it's right to jump in."

Kanye West's theatrical “I love this man” embrace of the president smacked of a Shirley Temple-era little black boy showing off for Massa Trump’s invited guests.

With regard to Mr. Lambros’ assertion that those opposed to Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation cannot handle the truth – has he not noticed that President Trump seems to have very little appreciation for the truth?

Rod Rosenstein doesn't deserve to be fired, but here's the real reason why President Trump may keep him - the high political cost of a 'Thursday night massacre.'

Has Donald J. Trump been thwarted or have crises been averted by staff? You make the call.

Why in a democracy do we have to rely on a “deep throat” figure to tell us the truth about what is going on in the White House when we have a Congress, an institution constitutionally charged with the responsibility to check the decisions of president?

President Trump's unholy bond with evangelicals is a faith-based mind-blower.

McCain's final words show him as a politician who hated Donald Trump, not a statesman who could rise above such pettiness.

The U.S. General Services Administration may have misled Congress about FBI headquarters plan, report says

Members of the media need not organize collectively to do their jobs, says Jules Witcover, urging independence.