Politics

Amid a rapidly changing legal landscape that is pushing immigration attorneys to their brink, these Baltimore law students aren’t deterred.

Gov. Wes Moore kicked off his reelection campaign with a high-energy Baltimore rally, highlighting his first-term accomplishments and ambitions while entering the race with strong funding and limited Democratic opposition.

The collapse of U.S.-based Spirit Airlines may mark the end of an era for budget travelers, leaving stranded passengers to navigate how to get home and secure refunds.

Plus: MoCo delegate gets social media love for Megan Thee Stallion TikTok; more council members’ endorsements in county executive race.

Thousands of protesters across Maryland took to the streets for May Day, with rallies and marches from Baltimore to Annapolis calling for workers’ rights, lower costs and broader economic reforms.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration was still weighing a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines.

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone.

Churchill Downs announced last month its intent to buy the Preakness Stakes’ intellectual property for $85 million — and now Maryland government is on the clock to consider whether to match the deal.

More than 100 Cephas family members had gathered for one of Dorchester County’s largest family reunions.

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome, died in San Diego after being hospitalized for side effects from a recent cancer treatment.

Blue and red states alike are contemplating special legislative sessions to adopt new maps, seeing an opening for political gerrymandering.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman says his final budget is about leaving the county “in good order.”

Maryland leaders say the state’s new voting rights law will help protect minority voters after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a key anti-discrimination provision of the federal Voting Rights Act.

COLUMN |State Sen. Pam Beidle plans to donate $500,000 in campaign funds to a slate of at least 19 candidates she believes will continue her middle-of-the-road political philosophy in increasingly progressive Maryland. Her top priority is getting Allison Pickard elected county executive.

Homelessness fell 26% in Montgomery County from last year, according to a recently released survey.

After weeks of delay, the House of Representatives voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and sent the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

The details of how Maryland authorities first approached Joseph “Jay” Attar as part of their investigation were revealed in newly unsealed federal court documents.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman has rejected a request to include money for security grants in his proposed budget. Groups including The Jewish Federation pushed for the funding to defray higher security costs, but Pittman said the county should work through the police department and the Hate Crimes Prevention Program.

Salomon Serrano Esquivel was well aware of the immigration crackdown under President Donald Trump and often thought he might be next. But he never could have predicted what happened.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb say their friendship, frequent calls and shared challenges as young Black city leaders have made them trusted allies.