Regina Holmes

President Joe Biden on Thursday touted his economic policies and contrasted the results with what he called the Republicans’ “extreme” budget proposals to give more tax breaks to the wealthy and cut social programs.

A number of county leaders around Maryland say requirements to increase spending on education need to be coupled with greater authority for them to oversee that spending.

Federal prosecutors want to seize more than $100,000 from a stock account belonging to the late Roy McGrath, alleging the money traces to a fraudulent severance payment that he negotiated when he left the state environmental office to become chief of staff to former Gov. Larry Hogan. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed the case Wednesday in federal court and asked a judge to freeze the $119,000 in a TD Ameritrade account in McGrath’s name. Prosecutors are asking for the money to be forfeited.

HOPKINS FIGHTS SUIT ALLEGING 'PRICE-FIXING CARTEL' THAT LIMITS FINANCIAL AID: Johns Hopkins University was named in a class-action lawsuit accusing it and other top U.S. universities of acting as a “cartel” to limit the amount of financial aid available to students. ...

STATE COMMISSION’S VOTE ON NEW DEGREE PROGRAM WAS IMPROPER, AG SAYS: The Maryland Higher Education Commission’s vote in June to allow Towson University to create a new business analytics doctoral program wasn’t conducted properly, according to an advice letter...

ANGELOS SOUGHT $300 MILLION, CAMDEN YARDS PARKING LOTS IN STALEMATE: Before Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos signs a new lease at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, he wants more, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the discussions. What does he...

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume is calling for investigators to look into the COVID-19 test scheme involving Medicare. Mfume said he wants the Department of Justice, FBI and others to work with Congress to track down those who are sending unwanted COVID-19 tests to people across Maryland and charging the costs to Medicare.

The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Accountability and Implementation Board approved all 24 school systems’ initial plans as part of the state’s goal to reform public education.

Gov. Wes Moore (D) and several key members of his administration traveled to a steamy Eastern Shore on Thursday to announce two policy initiatives that will be shaped, at least initially, by new task forces — one to strengthen protections to the Chesapeake Bay, the other to boost Maryland’s oyster industry.

Facing an angry Baltimore City Council demanding answers about how an annual community festival devolved into one of the city’s largest mass shootings, Baltimore Police leaders acknowledged their failure Thursday to learn of the event in advance and further admitted responsibility for failing to mobilize additional resources once the party was discovered. The July 2 shooting left two dead and 28 injured.