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Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown when the House passed a continuing resolution just hours before its deadline expired on Sept. 30. Now they have 45 days to pass a permanent spending plan for the next fiscal year before the government could again face a shutdown on Nov. 17.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to advance Jacob Lew as the nominee for ambassador to Israel.
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Maryland and 32 other states are filing a joint lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and the District of Columbia and eight other states are filing separate complaints in federal, state or local courts.
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New state laws reducing expungement waiting periods and legalizing adult cannabis possession have made more Marylanders eligible to remove convictions from their records.
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Jacob Lew, President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Israel, received pushback from Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
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Supporters of a Montgomery County proposal to raise tipped workers’ minimum wage clashed with opponents who came out to testify at a council hearing Tuesday afternoon.
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“I’m here to say very clearly, we are here to stand with the state of Israel, to recognize the right of Israel to exist, to recognize the right for Israel to defend itself, to recognize the right of Israelis to live without fear,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told the crowd.
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Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said Thursday they will introduce a bipartisan resolution supporting Israel when the Senate returns next week.
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The National Zoo’s three resident pandas are scheduled to return to China by Dec. 7, leaving one of the most popular attractions in the nation’s capital without its iconic bears for the first time in over 20 years.
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Laurel Park marked six horse deaths in the month of April, including the two on-field fractures that led to the shutdown, and 14 to date at the facility in 2023, according to data gathered by Horseracing Wrongs, a nonprofit aimed at ending the horse racing industry in the U.S.
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