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Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation Melissa Tran, a 44-year-old immigrant who built a family and a small business in Western Maryland, has been deported to Vietnam, a country she left as a child.

Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation

Seconds after activist Clifford “Buzz” Grambo confronted immigration agents on a Southeast Baltimore residential street Sunday morning, one of them shoved him several times, he said. buff.ly/WUhgqDP

Senate president joins push to ban ICE agreements in Maryland “This is not something we can aid and abet here in the state of Maryland,” Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said.

Senate president joins push to ban ICE agreements in Maryland

Johns Hopkins University will no longer charge tuition to undergraduate students from families making under $200,000 a year, the school announced Thursday.

The university will also cover the room and board and other living expenses for students whose families make under $100,000. buff.ly/MRJcyFm

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

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Trump tariffs bring India’s massive garment industry to its knees Just seven weeks after Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on India, many of Tiruppur’s garment factories have ground to a halt, putting thousands out of work.

If the tag on your T-shirt says “Made in India,” there’s a good chance it came from Tiruppur.

Interviews with more than a dozen factory workers, labor contractors and business executives revealed how rapidly President Trump’s trade war has upended lives and livelihoods across the one-industry town.

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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Maryland plans to use state money to provide food and cash assistance and pay state employee salaries typically funded with federal dollars as it rides out a government shutdown, Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday. buff.ly/sUiCJDK

We spoke with actor and writer Michael Strassner about his new film The Baltimorons.

He'll be throwing out the first pitch at the Orioles-Pirates game on Wednesday before rushing over to the Senator Theatre for the film’s sold-out Maryland premiere.

Q&A: buff.ly/6oWC85d

Catch blue catfish and win awards? Welcome to Nanticoke River Invasive Fishing Derby.

Read more: One scientist hopes his Eastern Shore fishing derby boosts the fish fight buff.ly/M5m1oHM

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

The Great Egg Heist: 280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note. As prices skyrocketed, and egg giant Cal-Maine raked in record profits, the company was hit by one of the biggest egg thefts in history.

With prices soaring, eggs have been reported stolen from porches and farm stands. At one point, federal agents at the border were seizing eggs more often than fentanyl.

Then, earlier this year, a Maryland sheriff’s office learned about a $100,000 egg heist — complete with a ransom note.

“I think, when she saw the contract it was when she realized, ‘OK, this is the real deal.’”

The family of one of the nation’s fastest high school sprinters takes you inside a landmark NIL deal. How Elise Cooper navigated an uncharted, hazardous market: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/colle...

NIH scientists have been angry for months. Now some are rebelling. More than 90 NIH scientists sign their names to the “Bethesda declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

More than 90 scientists at the National Institutes of Health signed a letter in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health, in a rare sign of open resistance by career government employees.

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get chance to challenge their deportations A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador a chance to challenge their deportations.

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get chance to challenge their deportations

Baltimore races to clean fuel spill that turned portion of harbor red Efforts to clean up the spill could cause traffic problems in the Harbor East area on Thursday.

UPDATE: Baltimore races to clean fuel spill that turned portion of harbor red

➡️ The 2,000-gallon diesel fuel spill has been linked to a Johns Hopkins facility in East Baltimore.
➡️ Efforts to clean up the spill could cause traffic problems in the Harbor East area on Thursday.

As BGE bills are about to rise again, utility commission demands a delay The Maryland Public Service Commission is ordering Baltimore Gas and Electric to mitigate the effects of an impending supply-side rate increase by shifting cost recovery to less expensive times of yea...

Your BGE bill is set to go up again June 1. The Maryland Public Service Commission has ordered BGE to flatten those bills ahead of costly summer months, reports @briaovers.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/bge-...

A portrait photo of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, an older man wearing a purple and blue checkered suit. A headline reads: "1926-2025: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Scientist Behind the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98." Julie Glassberg for The New York Times.

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who was often called the father of the abortion pill — and who was also known for his pioneering studies on the role of steroid hormones in human reproduction and aging — died on Friday. He was 98. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...

C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots

Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.

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One Type of Mammogram Proves Better for Women With Dense Breasts

Breaking News: A new breast cancer study found that one type of mammogram is much better at finding tumors in dense breasts. It isn’t widely used for screening in the U.S.

One Type of Mammogram Proves Better for Women With Dense Breasts

One type of mammography is much better at finding tumors in dense breasts. It isn’t widely used for screening in the U.S.

Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.

We just won a Pulitzer Prize for our coverage of the overdose crisis. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

This is what May Day protests looked and sounded like in Baltimore today.
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

Breaking News: The Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on the government’s premiere report on the effects of climate change in the U.S.

Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns

Israel has used the war in Gaza to rapidly test and deploy A.I.-backed military technologies to a degree that had not been seen before, U.S. and Israeli defense officials said. The tools have sometimes led to mistaken identifications and arrests, as well as civilian deaths, officials said.

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Has Simply Disappeared’

“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat (Gift Article) The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat."

The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

A map titled "Retracing Paul Revere's Route"

“You can’t find a more exciting historical story.” 250 years after Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, we followed the 16-mile route and spoke to people who felt a sense of wonder about that April night. nyti.ms/4cPQeun