National politics

Column: America has always been a place of division. Haves, have-nots. Black, white, brown. Left and right. Up or down. Now here’s one more. Are you on the side of the phone video or the side of the mask?

A retired Maryland immigration judge visiting family in Minneapolis saw up close the chaotic aftermath of the ICE shooting death of Alex Pretti.

After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and protesters clashed with federal officers, who wielded batons and deployed flash bangs.

Federal officers shot a person in Minneapolis Saturday amid the Trump administration’s heightened immigration enforcement, prompting renewed protests and criticism from Minnesota leaders who have called for the operation to end.

Howard County Police said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a man in Columbia on Saturday morning after removing him from the vehicle he was driving.

TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 million Americans.

Hoyer hailed Boafo’s public service, his work on the congressman’s campaign and his ability to solve issues for his community.

Column: Annapolis has been here before. If the General Assembly adopts the map revealed Tuesday by Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting commission, it will hand Sarah Elfreth the task of knocking Andy Harris out of Congress.

Baltimoreans joined nationwide protests and walkouts against the Trump administration and immigration enforcement Tuesday, one year into the president’s second term.

In a letter sent to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, all of Maryland’s representatives except for Republican Andy Harris “demand more details” about reported plans to convert a warehouse into detention space in Hagerstown.

The new 1st Congressional District would add portions of Anne Arundel and Howard counties in the proposed map.

The European Union’s top official on Tuesday described President Donald Trump’s planned new tariffs over Greenland as “a mistake” and called into question Trump’s trustworthiness.

rump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act throughout both of his terms.

Trump’s threat sets up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in Europe.

The clock is ticking to draw a new map, settle legal challenges, assign voters to their districts, print ballots and run the primary election, currently scheduled for June.

Three members of the Zizians, a cultlike group linked to six deaths across the U.S., were in court in Maryland on Friday for a hearing ahead of their trial on trespassing, weapons and drug charges.

Column: Parts of Annapolis have been waiting for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to switch tactics, bringing raids like those seen in places such as Washington, D.C., Portland and Minneapolis. They were ready when things changed on Tuesday.

House lawmakers have filed impeachment articles alleging Noem obstructed Congress by preventing it from conducting detention center oversight visits and violated the public trust by using excessive force during immigration operations. Reps. Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney and Kweisi Mfume, have co-signed the resolution.

An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president. That’s virtually unchanged from March 2025, shortly after he took office for the second time.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman said ICE enforcement makes “communities less safe” and that agents are detaining “people who make our communities better.”