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With clamor growing for President Joe Biden to step aside as the nominee, we all should suddenly care very much about who attends the convention in August. Because these Democrats, most of them people you’ve never heard of, could — maybe — have a say in what happens next in this craziest of presidential elections dramas.

The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity brings Independence Day into question.

The infielder has demonstrated what the Orioles knew about him — he can help the team win in many ways.

And what will the Orioles actually have to give up to add pitching?

What the heck did Thomas Jefferson mean by writing that we had a right to the pursuit of happiness? I asked Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, food historian Joyce White, Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein, nonprofit leader and teacher Tatiana Klein and artist Jeff Huntington what it means to them. Here’s what they said.

Former President Trump said that immigrants are coming for “Black jobs.” What, exactly, does that even mean? Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter has some thoughts.

Lines carved by the wind on the sand are no different than what followed the violence that ended five lives on June 28, 2018 — energy moving from one form to another.

Little was known about the 51-year-old New Yorker when he joined the ownership group, but a deep love of baseball has him positioned as the control person on deck.

It has somehow become an accepted, understood fact that the Orioles need to make significant moves to upgrade the pitching staff. But everything else we know about the club says it will likely hold on to its best prospects.

Elise Cooper is 17 and a rising senior at McDonogh who will be competing against the likes of Sha'Carri Richardson and Gabby Thomas for an Olympic spot in the 200 meters Thursday in Oregon.

To raise good LGBTQ allies, treat every month like Pride Month.

Plus, real talk about Kyle Bradish, a breakout international prospect and an Adley Rutschman nugget.

In a season of change, the new owners of Baltimore Sun Media stopped publishing the Maryland Gazette, which carried news of the Declaration of Independence on July 11, 1776. The Big Glen Burnie Carnival ended a summer run that started in 1908. And down in Ocean City, the city is phasing out a century-old seasonal police officer program.

After "General Hospital" spoke out about the racism facing some of the Black actors on the show, I was ready to start watching the soap opera again. Not so fast, some local fans said.

Republicans, Democrats and my colleagues in journalism alike would be wise to heed the ghost of Willie Horton, whose story still haunts us 26 years after his name entered the American lexicon.

The Orioles have six players spread between the big club and Norfolk capable of playing in an MLB outfield. Two prospects are on the cusp of joining that group.

We are in a season of replacements, of dominos lined up for the chain reaction fall. As many as six political vacancies in Annapolis either have been filled or will be by early next year. It’s a rare moment of political instability, and voters will have almost no say in the outcome.

If this is going to be the only year of Corbin Burnes in an Orioles uniform, Mike Elias has no choice. It's time to give up prospects and chase a World Series.

Between a move and the onset of COVID, I hadn't been to the dentist since 2020. I only recently got the courage to go back — and discovered I wasn’t the only one who had dealt with this anxiety.

Plus: Reading between the lines with Scott Boras and wading into the Joey Ortiz discourse.