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Department of Homeland Security agents visited more than 100 businesses in the Washington area last week, including nearly a dozen popular restaurants, leaving owners and staff on edge.
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Maryland breweries have yet to recover from the economic effects of COVID-19 fully, and the Trump administration’s tariffs have added another wrinkle to their bounce-back efforts.
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Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who endured the mayhem of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, discovered something about his fellow Marylanders that disappointed him during his unsuccessful campaign last year for a seat in the U.S. House.
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In March, the Republican Women of Baltimore County hosted Cook and five other convicted Marylanders at a banquet where they were celebrated as heroes. Cook did not hold back.
“I whacked these officers. I can’t lie about it,” Cook, 26, told the audience, according to a video recording of the event. “I was one of the ones who started the, what they call, insurrection.”
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Since the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse, rerouted trucks have wrought havoc on Dundalk’s narrow roads, causing stress and headaches for motorists and local officials. Even truckers don’t like the situation.
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The resulting research paper, titled “Reasons to Live Instead of Dying by Suicide: New Insights from a Computer-Assisted Content Analysis,” uses machine learning to discern the reasons the Redditors chose to live.
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Maryland joined a coalition of states and Washington, D.C. in a lawsuit Wednesday to overturn an executive order from President Donald Trump that blocks billions in funding for electric vehicle charging stations.
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At the Library of Congress, visitors from across the country, some stepping inside the ornate Beaux Arts building for the first time, reacted with anger and dismay to President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first African American woman to head the institution.
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Crime fell across Baltimore City in 2024, which the Mayor’s office said is thanks in part to programs like Safe Streets, the city’s primary violence reduction program, which is administered by Lifebridge Health Center for Hope. Now, despite a year of landmark achievements, the center is in peril.
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Newly released data shows the Key Bridge collapse upended workers far beyond Baltimore, with people in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and beyond receiving emergency state relief funds after losing their jobs.
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