Politics

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their devastating two-year war and the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Columbia’s cluster mailboxes are among the oldest in the country and the subject of a yearslong dispute between federal and local authorities over maintenance responsibilities.

Two entrepreneurs are taking advantage of a new law and plan to offer water cremation in Montgomery County.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza and release at least some hostages and prisoners in an agreement that was put forward by the Trump administration.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he was making a “firm commitment” and placing “firm accountability on all of our people” to make sure they use the rest of his time in office to “fix this.”

Anne Arundel County will issue a public apology for its role in instituting and supporting slavery. For the county executive, the direct descendant of people who enslaved others, it’s personal.

National Guard troops are positioned outside Chicago and they could be in Memphis by Friday as the Trump administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime, whether local leaders support it or not

Landlords like Dontae Carroll say Wall Street’s freeze on a specific housing loan has put their plans to purchase on hold.

Most Montgomery County Council members want to force landlords to give tenants two full weeks’ notice before evicting them.

Congress, a Trump administration memo says, is able to decide whether it wants to pay the workers or not as part of legislation to reopen the government.

The city of Baltimore accuses MoneyLion of using misleading marketing and charging excessive fees that officials allege trap low-income residents in cycles of debt.

Health care is one of the most intractable issues in Congress — and a real compromise amid the government shutdown will not likely be easy, or quick.

The partisan split in public opinion on Israel predates the current war with Hamas, but recent polling suggests some Americans have lost sympathy with the Israelis over the course of the war.

An ambitious plan to redevelop what’s called the Superblock, an area of downtown Baltimore, has been stuck in the mud for a quarter century. Much of the area was razed after a fire last month.

Residents of Montgomery and Prince George’s counties could pay roughly $18 more on their quarterly water and sewer bills next year.

Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago.

On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland denied the Justice Department’s request to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immigration case due to the government shutdown.

The Baltimore County Council will vote tonight on whether to give a politically connected developer a tax break of $16.5 million over 30 years in exchange for the developer agreeing to make 10% of the project into affordable housing units.

President Donald Trump did not let the government shutdown interfere with a stop in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to salute the Navy as it celebrates its 250th anniversary — using his speech to praise both the Navy and himself.

Currently, the program is being kept afloat by an $150 million contingency fund, but experts say it could run dry quickly.