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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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This city is marking the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building here this month, at a moment in time when domestic terrorism experts say homegrown extremism is brewing in the country.
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You won’t find swings, slides, or a kickball field outside Rhawnhurst School. Instead, the elementary school’s “playground” is a vast expanse of barren blacktop with just a lone basketball hoop.
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Only 45% of America’s Gen Z identify as Christian, according to Pew Research Center’s most recent Religious Landscape Study – a 10% decline from a previous 2014 survey. More than half of millennials and a little over 70% of Gen X respondents identified as Christian.
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andcuffed, shackled and unable to see out the plane windows or know where they were headed, Kilmar Abrego García and others were flown to El Salvador. Authorities placed him in a cell with around 25 others at CECOT, the country’s most notorious prison.
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The United States has been the world leader in science for decades, but the Trump administration has made plans to cancel or freeze federal grants that fund scientific institutions and universities and shrink or abolish federal scientific agencies. Such actions would end the country’s decades of preeminence in science, researchers and experts warn.
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, traveled to El Salvador Wednesday, where he attempted to visit Abrego García and hold talks with government officials to push for his release and check on his well-being, a promise he made to the man’s family during a press conference in Washington last week.
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In Maryland, if federal employment were to decline by 30,000 with 10% less in federal spending, the state’s total employment would decrease by close to 100,000, according to the Regional Economic Studies Institute at Towson University.
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Members of the Potomac Riverkeeper Network are concerned about the potential environmental impact on the river of the Jan. 29 collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter.
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Maryland lawmakers passed a bill this week revising the state’s expensive education reform plan, making marginal cuts instead of the more dramatic rollbacks proposed earlier this year.
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