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More than 300 people died of suicides, homicides, and accidents in federal prisons between 2014 and 2021 — numbers that drew fire from a Senate panel Wednesday.
The deaths “too often have been the result of mismanagement and operational failures,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, who presided over a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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he persistence of economic, educational and legal disparities in the lives of Black women and girls would be the target of a federal task force recently proposed by a group of House members.
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American-made semiconductors and other parts have been found in Russian weapons used against Ukraine, even with strict Biden administration sanctions, analyts told a Senate panel on Tuesday.
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In the months following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, the preeminent pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States increased its political spending nearly threefold, according to an analysis of the organization’s 2023 year-end filing with the Federal Election Commission.
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Black History Month is coming to a close, but Marylanders looking to more deeply explore Black history have plenty of options available to them year-round. Here are some stops in Maryland and D.C. that offer visitors the opportunity to journey through and reflect on historical figures, important moments, and stories of resilience and activism.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday denounced an Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that frozen embryos have the same rights as children. Moore, a Democrat, said that the court’s decision was completely “out of step” with where citizens in the country are.
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February is Black History Month, an observance meant to honor and celebrate the achievements made by African Americans throughout the history of the United States.
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A group of bikers in leather vests and wispy beards greets lawmakers here each Monday of the legislative session, hoping this is the year they’ll succeed in their galvanizing cause: gutting a Maryland law that requires them to wear helmets.
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By KATHARINE WILSON Capital News Service WASHINGTON – As Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team makes its last appeal to
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The Biden administration is preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia to be unveiled on Friday, a move to hold Vladimir Putin responsible for the recent death of his most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, and the two-year war against Ukraine.
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