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Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh says the suspect in a shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, is in custody and being interrogated by police.

LT. Ryan Frashure of the Anne Arundel MD Police department gives a timeline of events after active shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis Maryland. Frashure confirms that there were multiple injuries, and a reunification center set up at Annapolis…

Maryland police say there was a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper building in Annapolis, Maryland.

County Sheriff Ron Bateman says one suspect is in custody following incident at Capital Gazette in Maryland. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The…

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat from Maryland, reacts to news over the weekend of Maxine Waters urging her supporters to "harass" President Trump's cabinet officials in public spaces: "I don't think people should be harassed. But as a public official,…

The supreme court dodged a decision on whether it is constitutional for political parties to redraw electoral maps to gain a partisan advantage. In two cases, one in Maryland and one in Wisconsin, the court on Monday found procedural reasons not to issue a ruling on gerrymandering. Instead of making a landmark ruling, the cases were both kicked back to lower courts for new hearings. In Maryland, the map had been redrawn by Democrats, while in Wisconsin, Republicans had done the same to gain an advantage. The justices unanimously ruled against Wisconsin Democrats who challenged legislative districts that gave Republicans a huge edge in the state legislature. That will now happen. In Wisconsin, the Democrats prevailed after a trial in which the court ruled that partisan redistricting could go too far and indeed, did in Wisconsin, where Republicans hold a huge edge in the legislature even though the state is otherwise closely divided between Democrats and Republicans. The supreme court said that the plaintiffs in Wisconsin had failed to prove they have the right to sue on a statewide basis, rather than challenge individual districts. The lawsuit filed by North Carolina Democrats has plaintiffs in each of the state’s 13 congressional districts. Like Wisconsin, North Carolina is generally closely divided in politics, but Republicans hold a 10-3 edge in congressional seats.

In her first official campaign ad to air on TV, congressional candidate and pediatrician Dr. Nadia Hashimi calls out "mansplaining" in Congress. With not a single female physician serving in Congress, Dr. Nadia Hashimi is seeking to fill that role…

A federal court has held that Maryland and the District of Columbia have standing to sue President Donald Trump over his personal finances regarding the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., in what amounts to a political attack thinly veiled as a far-fetched constitutional theory. The foreign emoluments clause and presidential compensation clause exist to keep certain federal officials from accepting compensation from states, Congress, or foreign nations, in exchange for favorable official treatment. Neither Washington nor Obama faced an emoluments lawsuit during their two terms in office. The opinion of the District Court for the District of Maryland, written by Senior Judge Peter J. Messitte, only addressed standing: the constitutional requirement that plaintiffs show that they have suffered some concrete injury; that the person whom they are suing caused their injury; that the court can remedy their injury; and that the case belongs in the courts and not with the political branches. Still, Maryland had a back-up sovereign interest theory: that it could sue Trump to defend against losing tax revenues from hospitality businesses that compete with the Trump International Hotel. Unsurprisingly, Maryland could not show “with at least some measure of specificity how much tax revenue it may have lost to the hotel.” And with no facts to support that theory, Messitte rejected it, too. Quasi-Sovereign Interests Next, the plaintiffs turned to so-called “quasi-sovereign interests,” which in Snapp & Son, the Supreme Court ultimately described as twofold: defending the economic and physical well-being of its residents, and ensuring that they, and the state, “are not excluded from the benefits that are to flow from participation in the federal system.” Here, the plaintiffs claimed to be enduring the “intolerable dilemma” of being “forced to choose”: give the Trump Organization “special concessions” in future dealings, or “risk being placed at a disadvantage” to states that already have, “or may in the future,” grant such concessions. Messitte observed that “the District’s tax authorities, according to a report in The Washington Post, in fact granted the hotel a reduction in its 2018 tax bill for a savings of $991,367.00.” But Messitte ignored D.C. tax authorities, who declared that those concessions “were routine and that no favoritism was involved.” Here’s the rub: The plaintiffs, like virtually every other jurisdiction, routinely offer tax incentives to private businesses. Proprietary Interests Ironically, the plaintiffs also argue that they can sue Trump because the Trump International Hotel is eating into their own bottom lines, at the Washington Convention Center and the Bethesda Marriott Conference Center. Daniels correctly ruled that the emoluments controversy presents issues that the political branches must resolve.