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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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Gov. Wes Moore announced plans Friday for spending $90 million on reducing carbon pollution in Maryland, using an unexpected pot of money to fight what he called “environmental injustice.”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D–Maryland, accused House Republicans of taking orders from former President Donald Trump in a Wednesday interview with MSNBC. Raskin said the Senate was the best hope for bipartisan compromises, adding that the House Republicans fall in line with those on the MAGA right.
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Hogan was one of the Republican party’s more outspoken critics of former president Donald Trump, who is likely to be at the top of the ticket in the fall. Hogan even claimed he voted for late former president Ronald Reagan over Trump in 2020.
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As lawmakers reviewed increasing Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, anti-war protesters confronted a House hearing Wednesday over U.S. military involvement in the Middle East.
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The Van Hollen amendment only applied to countries receiving military aid from the United States under the national security supplemental spending bill. The Biden memorandum now applies to all countries receiving United States military assistance, including Ukraine and Israel.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if local governments can punish homeless people who sleep or camp outside when no shelter beds are available, or if such laws violate the Eight Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
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After U.S. arms exports hit a record high in 2023, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to advance legislation aimed at speeding up U.S. arms exports. Critics are concerned that transparency will be the victim of the legislation, which amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the thresholds for reporting to Congress arms exports to other countries.
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