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Terps' roster overhaul includes big frontcourt changes
Improvement from Alex Len also evident in offseason workouts
Jobs report is mixed bag in battleground states
The latest state jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics represents a mixed bag for President Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney in some of the key battleground states, as both men try to convince voters they're best equipped to strengthen the nation's economy.
Turgeon sees "options" at point guard
Four could see time running Maryland's offense next season
Updating Maryland football injuries
Edsall says all players expected to be cleared for start of practice
Redskins great, ESPN analyst Mark May joins NFL concussion lawsuits
Mark May, the former Washington Redskins offensive tackle who was a founding member of "The Hogs," has joined the concussion lawsuits against the NFL.
New Romney ad: Private sector is doing just fine?
The Romney camp on Thursday released a new television ad that challenges President Obama's economic chops by seizing on his recent assertion that the "private sector is doing just fine."
PICKET: Van Jones group uses NAACP style racism ad tactic against ALEC
Color of Change, a left wing attack group founded by former White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, is on a mission to smear the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a 30 year-old non-partisan membership association for “conservative state lawmakers who shared a common belief in limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty.” As a result of the organization’s successful assistance to lawmakers in state legislatures it has made them the target of liberal smear campaigns.
PICKET: The devil no longer wears Assad
Hollywood actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour will welcome President Barack Obama to an $80,000 plate fundraiser in New York City at Parker's Manhattan penthouse on Thursday. While such an event is not necessarily unusual for the president these days, what is odd is the latest content to come out of the pages of Wintour’s high profile fashion magazine.
GOP senators call on Obama to withdraw nominee for ambassador to Iraq
Seven Republican members of the Foreign Relations Committee are calling on President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Brett McGurk to be ambassador to Iraq after a string of steamy emails surfaced last week between Mr. McGurk and a reporter whom he later married
Summers, Dill advance to meet King in Senate race in Maine
Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill survived their primaries in Maine on Tuesday, putting them a step closer to replacing outgoing Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, a Republican.
PICKET: DOJ files lawsuit against FLA voter over roll purge
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Florida on Tuesday alleging violations of the national voter registration act. This action follows Florida's own lawsuit against the Obama administration's Department of Homeland Security for refusing the state access to the federal database that could help identify who is a citizen and who is a non-citizen. Florida wants access this information in order to purge their voter rolls of individuals who cannot lawfully vote in the United States.
PICKET: Cornyn - 'too late' for compromises with Holder
Senator John Cornyn, Texas Republican, reamed Attorney General Eric Holder at the Senate Judiciary hearing Tuesday morning. Senator Cornyn called on Mr. Holder to resign following a list of grievances against the AG from the mishandling and stonewalling of documents pertaining to Fast and Furious, the botched ATF gun walking operation, to the recent national security intel leaks.
PICKET: (VIDEO)Cornyn calls on Holder to resign
Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and answered questions on Fast and Furious. Senator John Cornyn, Texas Republican, read a litany of grievances against the Attorney General including Mr. Holder's stonewalling of documentation requested by Congress.
Poll: Obama leads Romney in Pa.
President Obama holds a six-point lead over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, built on advantages among women and independents, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.
Bryson to take medical leave of absence
Commerce Secretary John Bryson has informed the White House that he is taking a medical leave of absence to undergo tests and evaluations after he had a seizure and was involved in two traffic accidents in California on Sunday.
MILLER: Cover up in D.C.'s arrest of Iraq vet
(Part 4 of 4) Army 1st Sergeant Matthew Corrigan learned the hard way that the District of Columbia doesn’t believe it has to abide by the U.S. Constitution like the 50 states do. The city ignores the Fourth Amendment right of Americans to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. If police can’t be bothered to obtain a search warrant, officers have no problem busting open your front door and taking your property. Most of all, Washington officials do not abide by the full meaning and spirit of the Second Amendment.
PICKET: Obama to reporter - (VIDEO) I was too busy to visit Wis. during recall
President Barack Obama spoke to Green Bay ABC News and told the reporter the reason he did not visit Wisconsin during the recall election of Republican Governor Scott Walker and help campaign for Walker's opponent ,Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, was that he was too busy.
Dem lawmakers urge study, call for end of gay-blood ban
A group of Democratic lawmakers Monday urged Health and Human Services (HHS) officials to move swiftly on a pilot study on blood-donor policies so that the "indefensible" and "discriminatory" ban on donations by gay and bisexual men can be lifted.
PICKET: DOJ says Issa's scheduled contempt vote against Holder fits 'tired political playbook'
The Justice Department has hit back at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa, California Republican, over his move to schedule a vote in his committee next week on whether or not to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress for the AG's failing to provide thousands of "Fast and Furious" gun walking documents that was demanded of him.
