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Baltimore County Police detectives have charged a 23-year-old man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Taejhiana Walker, 22. from The Baltimore Banner

Maryland State Police investigators are looking into the death of an inmate in Somerset County. from The Baltimore Banner

Fans will need to get to Oriole Park at Camden Yards earlier than expected Monday. from The Baltimore Banner

After its best season in years, the Maryland men’s basketball team needs a new coach. from The Baltimore Banner

SAN FRANCISCO — Among the many lessons of the Kevin Willard fiasco, one is: If you’re going to skedaddle out of town — run out by the very flames you helped stoke — you’d best do it fast. from The Baltimore Banner

Picture Elmo from “Sesame Street” dancing with joy. from The Baltimore Banner

Elon Musk is not an idiot. from The Baltimore Banner

The news came suddenly and hit them hard like heavy weather. from The Baltimore Banner

Two decades ago, Philip Vance’s life was set on the scales of justice. And found wanting. Convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life in prison. A jury found him guilty on all three counts: second-degree intentional, first-degree intentional, and first-degree premeditated. In just eight…

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Gaza City, Gaza — During a brief respite of hostilities in Gaza, Palestinians retrieved the remains of their relatives who were killed by Israeli forces during repeated attacks on Al-Shifa Hospital; over 1,500 Palestinians were killed at this hospital alone. Civil Defense crews exhumed a…

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Philip Vance is serving a life sentence for a 2002 murder in South St. Paul during a robbery of Sabreen’s Supermarket, but his supporters have long believed this was a false charge after hearing Vance’s pleas of innocence. After waiting more than three years since…

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Aurora, CO — On Monday, longtime immigrant rights leader Jeanette Vizguerra was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) and has been incarcerated at the for-profit GEO ICE Detention Center in Aurora since. Supporters of Vizguerra, including her children, have been rallying outside…

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Gaza City, Gaza — Four children, two of them brothers, were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a group of Palestinians collecting firewood in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeast Gaza City on March 15, 2025.

“I have been taking care of my children for…

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Bemidji, MN — Six and a half years after the torturous jail death of Hardel Sherrell, charges have been filed against Michelle Skroch, the director of nursing who was in charge of Sherrell’s care at Beltrami County Jail. Skroch was charged with second degree manslaughter…

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Minneapolis, MN – On February 20, 2025, activists gathered outside of Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to protest the government’s executive orders and policies that negatively affect marginalized communities, including getting rid of “ICE-free spaces” like places of worship, schools and hospitals. Klobuchar’s office has…

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Turtle Mountain Reservation — Leonard Peltier, 80, was released from federal custody on Feb. 18, 2025 after spending 49 years in prison for the murder of two federal agents in 1975. Peltier was found guilty by a jury for two counts of first-degree murder for…

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Flashback to a Pivotal Moment in Global Politics

It was a crisp evening in December 2021 when Donald Trump stepped onto a gilded stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. The former president — reduced to a kingmaker, still without access…

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Minneapolis, MN — After boycotting Target for Black History Month, activists and residents in Minnesota are continuing that boycott indefinitely until the corporation brings back their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs. During a protest at Target’s downtown Minneapolis corporate office on Feb. 27, speakers…

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MCF-Rush City, MN — Serving a life sentence for a deadly robbery in South St. Paul in 2002, Philip Vance has always insisted he is innocent. Since his conviction, he’s been exhausting all legal options to get another chance in court to prove he’s been…

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Durban, South Africa — Renewed fighting between rebels and government forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province has resulted in the deaths of 14 South African soldiers. The fallen troops were a part of two separate international “peacekeeping” missions aimed at…

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