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Canada Confronts Growing Tensions Between Its Ethnic Communities 01/25/2018 07:00pm • TORONTO -- During this past season's observation of Hanukkah, at least a dozen synagogues and Jewish centers across Canada received the same letter -- a sheet of paper bearing the depiction of a blood-soaked Star of David with a swastika in the middle. The message, written in bold black letters, w State funds screens to block ‘fishing’ at Baltimore detention center 01/25/2018 09:35am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A rash of “fishing” for contraband — including drugs, weapons and phones — out prison windows has prompted the state on Wednesday to approve spending for metal screens in 96 cells at a Baltimore detention facility. Inmates at the Maryland Reception Diagnostic and Classi Baltimore replaces police commissioner 01/19/2018 10:40am • WASHINGTON — Baltimore's police commissioner has been replaced, effective immediately, as the city tries to reduce violence. Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh replaced Commissioner Kevin Davis Friday with Deputy Commissioner Darryl D. DeSousa, a 30-year police veteran. "I went through every 2017: Homicides soar in Baltimore, drop in DC 12/28/2017 12:48pm • WASHINGTON — The year 2017 was a tale of two cities when it came to violent crime in the District and in Baltimore, Maryland. As of Thursday morning, Baltimore had recorded more than 340 homicides — an increase of about 8 percent over last year’s 318. This year's crime numbers set a rec Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Considers Pardoning Alberto Fujimori 12/13/2017 07:00pm • LIMA, Peru -- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski won Peru's presidential election last year thanks to his image as an honest technocrat who would fight corruption and uphold rule of law. Part of that appeal was based on his campaign pledge not to pardon his jailed predecessor Alberto Fujimori, the 1990s hard-ri Kids Want More Kindness: Here's How to Make It Happen 11/29/2017 07:00pm • A 7-year-old boy is frustrated because he suffered the consequences of his behavior at school, while the boy who "started it" didn't get caught. "I was mean to him because he was mean to me first," he protests. "It's not fair that I got caught." We talk about alternative responses in case something Maryland Made: State’s film industry is robust 11/22/2017 05:00pm • By Chris Miller, Correspondent ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland is well known for its crab cakes and the Chesapeake Bay. But that’s not all. Since 2000, 78 films and five television shows have been shot in Maryland, according to the Maryland State Archives. When people think of movie and televis Trial of Ratko Mladic Closes Chapter on Yugoslav War Crimes Court 11/21/2017 07:00pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Marina Antić was 14 when the attack on Sarajevo happened. It was April 1992, and Antić could see tanks bombing her hometown, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Trams burned in the city center. Her neighborhood, in the west of the city, was isolated by the attack Hippie cult leader Charles Manson who masterminded 7 murders dead at 83 11/20/2017 09:12am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after masterminding the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday night after nearly a half-century in pris 38 MS-13 members arrested in Md., Va., as part of national gang crackdown 11/17/2017 03:13pm • WASHINGTON — Thirty-eight individuals were arrested over the last month in Maryland and Northern Virginia as part of a national effort targeting members of the violent street gang MS-13, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Three were arrested in Northern Virginia on immigration vi Baltimore homicide detective shot in head dies; suspect at large 11/16/2017 04:01pm • WASHINGTON — The Baltimore homicide detective shot in the head Wednesday evening has died, the police department announced Thursday. The suspect is at large. Around 5 p.m. Wednesday, Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, 43, was following up on a 2016 murder investigation in a West Baltimor Artificial Intelligence Poses New Issues for Countries' Militaries 11/07/2017 07:00pm • Artificial intelligence, or AI, seems to be everywhere. Home computers and smartphones now possess speech recognition. Social media platforms are able to tag and label faces and geographic locations. Companies are moving fast to develop vehicles with self-driving capabilities. This type of intellig What Parents, Students Need to Know About Campus Carry Policies 10/31/2017 08:00pm • Many U.S. colleges allow students to carry guns on campus -- and that number may grow. Georgia recently passed legislation that allows -- with restrictions -- guns on public college campuses. Nearly a dozen states have similar laws. In a spring 2017 U.S. News survey, 103 colleges and universities r Guide to Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial candidates 10/31/2017 04:32am • WASHINGTON — For voters just tuning into the tight race for Virginia governor, the men running for the state's top elected office offer competing ideas on education, taxes and the economy. Here’s a look at the race, the candidates and some of their policy ideas. The state’s off-year general Alexandria man sentenced for joining ISIS 10/27/2017 04:41pm • WASHINGTON — An Alexandria, Virginia, man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison after having been convicted of joining and supporting ISIS. The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement that Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 28, was convicted by a federal jur