Julie Gallagher

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Julie Gallagher is a reporter in the Washington bureau of Capital News Service covering social services and Rep. Elijah Cummings. She is a junior at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Julie has previously interned at Street Sense where she covered local and national issues surrounding homelessness and poverty, and Urner Barry, a market reporting company. Julie also writes for UMD'S chapter of Her Campus, an online publication geared towards college women. You can find her on Twitter @_JulieGallagher and LinkedIn.

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GOP Convention Souvenirs Range from T-shirts to Sunglasses to Bobbleheads

Donald Trump and Republican National Convention memorabilia has filled the mini-stores within Quicken Loans Arena and the sidewalks downtown.

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Baltimore Surgeon Ben Carson Invokes Lucifer in GOP Convention Speech

The message from the retired neurosurgeon was startling — by electing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the United States would be choosing a person “who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer.”

Ben Carson speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md, where he announced the end to his presidential campaign.

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Controversial Baltimore Surgeon Ben Carson To Address GOP Convention

Dr. Ben Carson will take the stage at Quicken Loans Arena Tuesday night in support of his one-time competitor, Donald Trump, as he becomes the Republican nominee for that very job.

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Low-Income Alzheimer’s Patients Battle More Than The Disease

It was 1994 when Barbara Harris noticed her mother, Edith Harris, would write and keep little notes. She was starting to forget things.

“She started slipping a little bit,” daughter Harris, a Baltimore resident, recalled.

It was not until 1996 that Edith Harris was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, a type of dementia that causes progressive memory loss that eventually interferes with daily tasks and body functions.

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Commission, Congress Evaluate SNAP and Needs of Hungry Americans

Forty eight million.

That is how many people lived in hungry households in the United States in 2014, according to the Food Research and Action Center.

In order to combat this huge problem, the National Commission on Hunger recently recommended that Congress and the Obama administration create a cross-agency, coordinated national plan to end hunger.