WASHINGTON — An arts management training program at the Kennedy Center that’s funded by one of the center’s largest donations will move to the University of Maryland next year, along with the center’s outgoing chief executive, the two institutions announced ...

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President Barack Obama’s top environmental official is wasting no time taking on opponents of the administration’s plan to crack down on global warming pollution. In her first speech as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy on Tuesday ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has named James Comey to be the new FBI director. Comey was the No. 2 Justice Department official under Republican President George W. Bush. Obama says Comey is a model of “fierce independence and deep ...

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A federal appeals court has reversed three fraud convictions against former Prince George’s County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby and ordered a new sentencing hearing on his convictions for obstruction of justice and witness- and evidence-tampering, which remain intact. Hornsby ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Pennsylvania native and U.S. Naval Academy graduate is the Navy’s new chief of naval operations. Adm. Jonathan Greenert, a native of Butler, Pa. and a 1975 academy graduate, was installed Friday as the 30th chief of naval ...

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Eleven attorneys have applied to become the state’s next chief prosecutor of public corruption cases, according to the chair of the panel that will recommend whom Gov. Martin O’Malley should name state prosecutor. Four of the applicants seeking to succeed ...

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