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Bryan is an award-winning political journalist who has extensive experience covering Congress and Maryland state government.
His work includes coverage of the election of Donald Trump, the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and attorneys general William Barr and Jeff Sessions-as well as that of the Maryland General Assembly, Gov. Larry Hogan, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bryan has broken stories involving athletic and sexual assault scandals with the Baltimore Post-Examiner.
His original UMBC investigation gained international attention, was featured in People Magazine and he was interviewed by ABC’s “Good Morning America” and local radio stations. Bryan broke subsequent stories documenting UMBC’s omission of a sexual assault on their daily crime log and a federal investigation related to the university’s handling of an alleged sexual assault.
Former DNC chair and former Pennsylvania governor Edward Rendell said if Democrats want to retake control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections the party must go beyond attacks on President Donald Trump and come up with an issue-focused campaign message.
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President Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to make consumer staples less expensive. But his decision to impose massive tariffs on America’s trading partners has the potential to increase inflation and ultimately lead to an economic slowdown, analysts said.
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President Donald Trump’s decision to impose the strictest tariff regime in a century on America’s closest trading partners could bring about economic devastation and could cause Republicans to lose control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections, according to political analysts.
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Former President Ronald Reagan would be appalled by President Donald Trump’s seemingly friendly foreign policy attitude toward Russia and hostile treatment of U.S. allies such as Ukraine, according to a former advisor to the late president.
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A little more than a month after President Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second non-consecutive term the new administration has lit a fire underneath the Washington bureaucracy the likes of which have not been seen in nearly a century.
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Forty-four years ago another agreement to release hostages took place on the eve of a a presidential inauguration.
On January 19, 1981, Democrat Jimmy Carter’s last full day as president, an agreement was reached to release the remainder of the 53 American hostages that had been held captive by militant Iranian students at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than 440 days.
The hostages were released on January 20 just minutes after Republican Ronald Reagan was sworn-in as president.
Politicians are known for making promises and pledges they are unlikely to be able to fulfill and former President Donald Trump has arguably made more ambitious ones than have most.
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In the nearly four years President Joe Biden has been in office the world has arguably become a more dangerous place than at any other time since the height of the Cold War in the 1960s.
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The winner of Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes could very well decide whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump is the next occupant of the Oval Office.
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“He is certainly going to do better than we have done historically,” former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) told Baltimore Post-Examiner.
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