As a lawyer with a physical disability who also has experienced depression, I’m disappointed at the tenor of how our society discusses a disease of millions of Americans – mental illness. Each tragic occurrence of a mass shooting results in ...

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Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate.

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An anguished and angry President Joe Biden delivered an urgent call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman shot and killed at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school.

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The Biden administration convened the first meeting of a group of mayors and officials that will work with the federal government to reduce gun violence.

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday called on Maryland legislators to enact mandatory minimum sentences on repeat violent offenders as part of an effort to reduce the more than 300 slayings that have afflicted Baltimore in each of the ...

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While Gov. Larry Hogan says a second term would look a lot like his first, he also says Maryland voters can expect to see some significant changes — notably in how the state's congressional map is drawn.

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Even as it is beset by gun violence, Chicago likes to claim it has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.

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Students at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore gathered to support the Florida high school where 17 people were killed Feb. 14 in a mass shooting. More than 45 students turned for the event organized by ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Larry Hogan and chief county prosecutors battled the public defender’s office and the ACLU on Tuesday over his proposal to impose mandatory minimum sentences on repeat gun offenders, with law enforcement calling the measure necessary to reduce ...

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