Politics

Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”

El Salvador already agreed this week to take up to 300 migrants that the Trump administration designated as gang members.

I wrote about Andy Harris’ congressional district art contest two weeks ago, and the Republican from Cambridge hated it so much he wants me fired. I guess it pays not to be a federal worker in Andy’s world.

In a long and emotional session Saturday, the Maryland House of Delegates advanced a bill giving more incarcerated people a chance to petition for shorter sentences.

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died. He was 90.

An appeals court lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

We’re here to help you understand what went down recently and how it may impact Maryland.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he’ll block the planned move of the FBI headquarters from the nation’s capital to Prince George’s County.

Lawmakers will be back and forth between committee hearings and floor sessions to get bills through — and there’s a chance they could meet on Saturday as well.

The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Friday that the school board’s $1.26 billion funding request is “unattainable and unaffordable.”

The end of Gavin Buckley's parade is in sight. Term-limited, the mayor leaves office in December for a return to the business that brought him to Annapolis, restaurants. Most mayors are soon forgotten. Will it be different for the brash Australian?

Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.

State legislators are now weighing whether to cut scholarship funds for students at private colleges by 50% for the second year in a row.

The ruling means the federal government must take back the employees, at least for the immediate future.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh discusses climate change ahead of his address at Loyola University Maryland 2025 Humanities Symposium.

Debates over funding the federal government routinely erupt in deadline moments but this year it’s showing the political leverage of Republicans.

Maryland lawmakers are trying to make the orange crush our state cocktail, a year after Delaware stole our favorite drink.

The case is among multiple lawsuits challenging the mass firings.

Despite Maryland’s progressive reputation, the disparities in its criminal justice system are among the worst in the country.