National politics

Despite mischaracterizations about the encampment at Johns Hopkins University protesting the war in Gaza, what actually took place was peaceful and constructive, Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says.

The Democratic candidates will mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day during an event in Prince George’s County.

The push by members of former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that his felon status makes him more relatable to Black people is beyond ignorant.

“The election is going to be decided here in Maryland. It’s not going to be decided in Milwaukee,” a Hogan adviser said.

Larry Hogan urged respect for the legal system and the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Trump’s daughter-in-law, a high-ranking Republican Party official, responded that Hogan doesn't deserve respect himself.

“Very close races can be won or lost based on LGBTQ voters,” says one expert.

Maryland’s Attorney General has signed on to a push for a federal civil rights investigation into a Texas police officer pardoned by that state’s governor after being convicted of killing a social justice protester.

John Sarbanes is exactly the right person to ask about fixing Congress. It’s his cause. His answer is long and flows from The Federalist Papers to the fall elections. It isn’t Congress that’s broken, he says, it’s us.

Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read.

The Department of Defense awarded a $500 million contract with the University of Maryland’s national security research facility, the largest research deal the university has received.

An attorney for the Sinclair chairman and Baltimore Sun owner objected to 64 questions in a recent deposition as part of a lawsuit Smith is funding against city schools.

Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.

Delays with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid means students can’t make decisions about which college they will attend.

Maryland voters have every reason to be skeptical about Larry Hogan’s announcement at the start of his 2024 general election campaign for the U.S. Senate that he now favors abortion rights, says a former Maryland official who compares the announcement to President George H.W. Bush's “no new taxes” pledge.

Trone spent at least $60 million of his own money on an unsuccessful primary bid, but blew past reporters with questions about his support this fall.

Musical legend Stevie Wonder performed at the Johns Hopkins University commencement ceremony after protesters interrupted Sen. Mitt Romney’s commencement address.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s clapback to a personal insult from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was a refreshing reminder that Black women no longer feel compelled to cater to respectability politics.

A key difference between the two candidates emerged on Thursday, with Hogan saying he’d support legal abortions up to 26 weeks of a pregnancy while Alsobrooks opposed a firm cutoff.

Communities must stand against the language that criminalizes and dehumanizes immigrants, says the managing attorney of an organization supporting immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.

I recently caught up with state Sen. Sarah Elfreth over coffee, days after she won the Democratic nomination for Congress in Maryland's 6th District. She recently adopted a puppy named Ollie and thinks often of the late House Speaker Mike Busch, who encouraged and inspired her.