Politics

The annual Henson-Nevels family reunion featured a new quilt unveiling, now on display to the public.

Among the latest grant recipients: Community Health and Empowerment through Education and Research (CHEER) in Long Branch and Takoma Park and the Ebenezer Church of God’s back-to-school supplies drive in Landover Hills.

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat. The operation involved a ruse in which journalists and some White House staffers believed they were on the same plane as the Republican president.

Howard County is sending $260,000 in emergency funding to keep Grassroots Crisis Intervention, the nonprofit that answers calls, chats and texts to the national 988 suicide and crisis hotline, afloat after losing its federal funding.

COLUMN | The prospect of Mardelva is the latest in a line of oft-repeated threats to secede from Maryland. They grow loudest when the Eastern Shore fails to get its way in Annapolis.

The Trump administration’s decision to rescind a key immigration protection status for Haitians has prompted fear among community members. Many immigrants who benefited from the status said that going back to an unstable Haiti could be extremely dangerous, if not fatal.

A ballot measure in the upcoming election will ask voters whether they want to eliminate the two at-large seats on the Prince George’s County Council.

The company abandoned its data center plan last week after Calvert County voters ousted three members of their Republican commission.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

A federal judge ruled Monday that construction may continue on a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Elkridge, dealing a blow to Howard County leaders who attempted to halt the controversial project.

District of Columbia residents and officials see President Donald Trump’s extended National Guard deployment as an attempt to restrict the heavily Democratic city’s autonomy.

The Prince George’s County Council has demanded that an Upper Marlboro-based nonprofit return at least $134,000 in taxpayer money.

COLUMN | This vote to have more flexibility in drawing congressional districts is not about spite or waving signs. It’s about our perilous ability to exist as full citizens.

While the city is experiencing historic declines in homicides and shootings, some residents say other low-level offenses persist at unacceptable levels and erode their quality of life.

The Montgomery County Agricultural Fair is adding a second rodeo after high demand. But not everyone is thrilled.

Since April, staff at the century-old St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church has used a couple dozen bunk beds to shelter people who have nowhere else to go.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

COLUMN | Oh, Andy. What is Maryland to do with you? To hear Republicans in Annapolis tell it, you’re the damsel in distress, a starlet in the clutches of a King Kong gerrymander unleashed by Democrats.

The county teachers union has had substantial influence in local elections with what is known as its Apple Ballot.

Human rights advocates are sounding alarms over the detainment of Baltimore resident Christina Pasion in the Philippines.