Counsel for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told a federal appeals court Thursday that his order requiring bidders for state contracts to forswear boycotts against Israel does not violate the constitutional right of a software engineer seeking government work to freely ...

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A software engineer and former Maryland legislator has urged a federal appeals court to revive his free-speech challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan’s executive order requiring those bidding on state contracts to pledge they are not boycotting Israel and will not ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 58th anniversary of the premiere of  ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.” Here are some news items to get your week started: — When is a “hate crime” not a hate crime in the legal sense? — ...

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Maryland's ban on contracting with businesses that boycott Israel tramples on the First Amendment rights of a software engineer who advocates for Palestinians, a Muslim civil rights group claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

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Gov. Larry Hogan will lead a group of business, education and cultural officials on an economic development trip to Israel later this month. The trip, Hogan’s second foreign mission, will take him to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and is expected ...

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Virginia Bar's cancellation of Israel trip heads news summary that includes judge upholding dismissal of parochial-school teachers, a retiring 91-year-old judge looks back and New York apartments are not hotels.

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Collaboration is the driving spirit behind MIDC’s second trade mission to Israel in March, a week in which Maryland companies will visit Israel’s budding CyberSpark cybersecurity center in Be’er Sheva and attend the second annual CyberTech conference and exhibition in Tel Aviv.

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A man serving a life sentence for murder in a series of stabbings in Michigan is suing to try to be sent to Israel, his native country.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, of Owings Mills, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, announced this week that it will donate $700,000 in emergency grants to support agencies that have provided social services to those ...

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Confronting an issue fraught with Middle East politics, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear for the second time a passport dispute centering on whether Americans born in Jerusalem may list their place of birth as Israel.

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