WASHINGTON – Tracy Miller used to have a nightmare in which she drove up to find a pair of Marines parked outside her Towson home, waiting with the news that her son had died in Iraq

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers and scientists agreed Wednesday that achievements of the threatened Hubble Space Telescope have been so sweeping that different ways to save the program demand a serious look

WASHINGTON – All Michael Starr wanted to be was a Marine

WASHINGTON – A group of federal employee unions said they will sue to block new Department of Homeland Security personnel rules that the unions said would strip workers of essential collective bargaining rights

WASHINGTON – When the inaugural balls officially ended at 1 a

WASHINGTON – Sharon Broderick had never been to a protest before, and was not sure if she should join the thousands who marched Thursday against President Bush’s second inauguration

WASHINGTON – It’s a good week to be a Republican in Maryland

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ruled in a published opinion that a judge who edited and improved parts of a search warrant application before approving the warrant did not taint it

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BOSTON – Big-time political draws such as Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter, plus current Hollywood darlings like Ben Affleck and Michael Moore, have wowed various state delegations at the traditional daily breakfasts of the Democratic National Convention