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Emotions bubble over at budget hearing on developmental disabilities service cuts

The hearing on $150 million in proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration was mostly dry, until ...
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House votes mostly on party lines to approves three emergency immigration measures

The House passed three more bills Thursday aimed at challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement ...
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Prosecutor testifies that human smuggling charge against Abrego Garcia was not ‘vindictive’

The lead prosecutor in the human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia testified Thursday that charges were not ordered by Trump administration higher-ups embarrassed by Abrego Garcia's ...
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A Mostly Dead redistricting bill, a tense committee exchange and driving bears, in political notes

Rumors of a Plan B for redistricting, after Plan A didn't work out so well, a hearing gets real when a senator confronts a witness who murdered the senator's friend, and bears can't -- legally -- ...
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On the site of the Potomac sewage line rupture that drew Trump’s ire

At the site of one of the worst sewage leaks in the nation’s recent history, a spill President Donald Trump called “a massive Ecological Disaster,” things had reached a state of relative calm on a ...
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Maryland sues to block ‘unlawful’ immigration detention center in Washington County

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block the Trump administration’s “unlawful decision” to convert a Washington County warehouse into a massive immigration ...