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Most federal employees in the Washington-Baltimore area will receive a 3.52% raise in January, the largest increase in the locality-based pay system for white-collar federal workers, under an order President Donald Trump signed Thursday. The order was needed to finalize ...

When Bethany Austin learned that her fiancé had been unfaithful in late May 2016, she ended the seven-year relationship and called off their upcoming wedding. He told the couple’s friends that Austin was “crazy.” To set the record straight, Austin ...

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A young man I know, an electrician in training, was telling me the other day about building computer server racks at his company’s fabrication facility. I grew enthusiastic as I realized he was describing a little piece of a major ...

As Democratic candidates slug it out with their primary rivals, a new report on voter attitudes toward the economy from the Center for American Progress and pollster GBAO offers guidance on what kind of message will put the eventual nominee ...

WASHINGTON — The legal cases concerning President Donald Trump, his finances and his separation-of-powers disputes with Congress are moving like a brush fire to the Supreme Court and together provide both potential and challenge for the Roberts court in its ...

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Three men serving life sentences for a 1983 murder they did not commit were exonerated Monday, just six months after one of them wrote to Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby asking her to investigate their convictions. The men ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge late Wednesday halted the four scheduled federal executions, finding that Attorney General William Barr’s July proposal seeking to resume the death penalty after a 16-year moratorium appears to be at odds with federal law. The ...

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Maryland has reached a tentative agreement to award about $9 million to five wrongly convicted men, including about $3 million — the state’s largest-ever such settlement — to a man who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he ...

Anitra Edmond, the daughter and campaign treasurer of former Maryland Del. Tawanna Gaines, was charged with federal wire fraud, accused of funneling money from her mother’s campaign funds to a personal bank account. The charge against Edmond was filed in ...