The Maryland Nonprofit Behind the Lawsuit That Just Knocked Out Trump’s 75-Country Visa Suspension
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge has struck down one of the Trump administration’s broadest immigration...
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While the WNBA Fights Over Sophie Cunningham, Maryland Quietly Stays the Course
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has spent the back half of the WNBA season as the...
Three Governors, One Script: Texas, Maryland and Pennsylvania Are All Suddenly Cracking Down on Data Centers
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro stood in Harrisburg on Tuesday and told data center...
The 27-Point Question: Why Wes Moore’s Poll Deserves More Scrutiny
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A fake polling operation just admitted that it fabricated political surveys and watched...
Trump’s FBI Headquarters Switch Is Dead — For Now. Greenbelt Is Back in Play.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge sitting in Greenbelt ruled Monday that the Trump administration had no...
Maryland’s Van Hollen Bet Big on a Michigan Candidate Who Wants Him Running the Senate Democrats — Raskin Cheered From the House
Van Hollen was the first sitting senator to back Abdul El-Sayed after Bernie Sanders. Raskin called his win proof of...
What Moore Announced — And What Comes Next
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore held his press conference Wednesday. It was, by the standards of...
Power Over People: How Annapolis Rewrote the Rules — and What It Ignored to Do It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland General Assembly closed its three-day special session Tuesday night having...
The House Passed It 96-38. Bouchat’s Bill Never Got a Hearing.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland House of Delegates voted 96-38 Tuesday to pass House Bill 2100, sending the...
Nine Minutes. One Question.
CDI and NYRA spent the day defending their new championship series — and confirming, almost in spite of themselves,...
Day One: The Session Convenes, the Math Gets Real, and a Democrat Breaks Ranks
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The General Assembly gaveled in at 10 a.m. Monday for the Aug. 3-5 special session, and by...
Blindsided, Again
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Editor's Note: MDBayNews published this morning, at approximately 11:30 am, the first...
Moore’s Two-Front Test: What the NGA Gavel Means for His Ambitions — and His Reelection
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore picked up a new title over the weekend, and it isn't on the Maryland ballot....
Van Hollen Isn’t Even on the Ballot. He’s Still Doing the Socialists’ Work for Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Chris Van Hollen has no primary to survive and no general election to win in 2026. He...
Anne Arundel Schools Face Federal Investigation Over Policy That Let Staff Withhold a Student’s Gender Transition From Her Parents
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Anne Arundel County Public Schools is now the subject of a federal investigation that could...
Seven Stops, Five States, Three Weeks: Where Wes Moore Has Been While Maryland Waits on Affordability
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — On the same day House and Senate Republicans stood in Annapolis calling a...
Maryland Named Twice by DHS — State Signals It Won’t Comply, as Federal Funding and Legal Threats Escalate
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland is one of 18 states named in a declassified federal intelligence review alleging...
The Bipartisan Rider Nobody’s Enforcing: USDA Presses Ahead On Beltsville Closure While Congress Says Stop
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's largest federal research complex is closing, and Congress told the U.S....
DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act — Second Federal Challenge in Six Weeks
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Department of Justice sued Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown on July 9,...
Moore’s ICE Scare Tactic Was Already Out of Date When It Aired
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On a soundstage in California, taped weeks before it ever reached a Maryland screen,...
Moore Debates 20 Non-Voters on YouTube While a Bill to Open Maryland’s Debate Stage Died Without a Vote
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore spent his Sunday morning on "Surrounded," a debate program from the...
Wes Moore: Incapable of Meeting the Moment
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Wes Moore spent the week before Independence Day telling national reporters that President...
The State That Almost Said No
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | July 4, 2026 Tonight, Maryland celebrates 250 years of American independence. Fireworks...
One Foot Out the Door: Wes Moore’s Reelection Pitch Is a Presidential Audition
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In September 2025, NBC's Kristen Welker asked Governor Wes Moore a simple question on "Meet...
Wes Moore Picks a Fight on the Nation’s 250th Birthday. Maryland Gets the Bill.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Governor Wes Moore will stand at the State House in Annapolis on Saturday and...
What the Supreme Court’s Coordinated-Spending Ruling Means for Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, striking down federal limits on how...
Maryland Officials Find Their Voice — Just Not for Taxpayers
By MDBayNews Staff Two of Maryland's most prominent Democratic officials issued statements today following the Supreme...
Did Trump Just Punk the Democrats Into America First?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Riptide | Dead Reckoning Today, the Senate voted 50-48 to direct the president to end the...
MARYLAND’S AG WAS PRAISED BY VANCE TWO WEEKS AGO. NOW HE’S SIGNED A LETTER REFUSING THE WHITE HOUSE.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two weeks ago, Vice President JD Vance stood at a White House podium and held Maryland up...
The Field Nobody’s Covering: Ten Candidates Running in MD-6 While Everyone Watches the Billionaires Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Election 2026 · Maryland's 6th Congressional District Maryland's 6th Congressional...
SPLC Under Federal Indictment — And Its Curriculum Is in Maryland Classrooms
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On April 21, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment...
The Leak Nobody Reported: How Joint Base Andrews Lost 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel — and Maryland Didn’t Find Out for Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Sometime last December, a refueling system at Joint Base Andrews failed a pressure safety...
EPA Completes Potomac Cleanup Ahead of Schedule. Wes Moore Is Still Silent.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the federal cleanup of the Potomac...
They Knew — And Didn’t: The Warning That Came Too Late, and the Sister Who Was Already in Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen sent his family a manifesto minutes before he charged a...
MARYLAND’S PORTS FEEL THE SHOCK OF A DISTANT WAR — AND RELIEF ISN’T COMING SOON
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Strait of Hormuz is roughly 7,000 miles from the Port of Baltimore. But the economic...
Maryland’s Raskin Leads 25th Amendment Push — But His Own Record Undermines the Case
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced legislation this week to establish a congressional commission...
Maryland Built Its Economy on Washington. Now Washington Is Shrinking.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | An accountability analysis and economic report The federal government shed roughly 18,000...
Who Was Running Total Wine? Records Contradict Trone’s Claims of Arm’s-Length Management
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For years, David Trone has offered voters a reassuring story: when he went to Congress, he...
The “Poisoning the Sky” Narrative: What’s Real, What’s Speculation, and Why Americans Don’t Trust the Answer
By MDBayNews Staff For decades, claims that governments are “controlling the weather” or “spraying chemicals in the...
Maryland AG Anthony Brown’s Latest Lawsuit: More Politics, More Posturing, Less Accountability
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is at it again. This time, Brown has joined yet...