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Frederick County is set to receive a nearly $5.5 million federal grant to hire more firefighters.
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Read More »More immigrants sue US over end to protected status
Immigrants from Nepal and Honduras — including a Baltimore man whose 9-year-old daughter wants to be president of the United States when she grows up — have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets ...
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Read More »Federal team finds no intrusion on Maryland election systems
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team found no evidence of intrusion on Maryland's election system after a company hosting elections systems was acquired.
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Read More »Federal team evaluating Maryland’s election system
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team is in Maryland this week to evaluate the state's election systems
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Read More »DHS: Most state election officials lack clearances needed
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said only about 20 out of a targeted 150 state officials have full security clearances needed to receive classified information on cybersecurity threats to their elections, with the midterm congressional primaries already underway. Nielsen, under ...
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Read More »US ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants
The Trump administration faces a Monday deadline on whether to extend protections that would allow nearly 200,000 Salvadorans to stay in the U.S. legally.
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Read More »Salvadorans in US fear roll back of immigration program
About 20,000 people from El Salvador who are living in Maryland fear they'll have to move back to Central America.
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Read More »Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues
HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s ...
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Read More »Frosh requests ‘safe harbor’ designation for Md. courts, hospitals, schools
In response to the Trump administration’s strong stance against undocumented immigrants, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has asked the Department of Homeland Security to designate courts, hospitals and schools in the state as “safe harbors,” meaning immigration officers cannot identify ...
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Read More »Hopkins class competes to challenge extremism
A communications class at Johns Hopkins University wants to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fight ISIS. Students in Professor Leslie Kendrick’s Advertising and Integrated Communications Marketing class will participate in the Peer2Peer: Challenging Extremism Competition. The program looks ...
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