Politics

The family of Ronald Silver II, a Baltimore City Department of Public Works crew member who died from overheating, including his mother, father, siblings and several others, gathered Monday morning in front of Baltimore City Hall to call for immediate action from the City Council and DPW. The family is requesting a swift investigation and hearing open to the public within the next week along with an appointment of a liaison for the Department of Public Works who will provide real-time information directly to the family about what happened and future proceedings.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott married fiancee Hana Pugh in a surprise ceremony Sunday at Walther Gardens. The nuptials were posted to the social media platform X by Scott’s chief of staff, Marvin James, and earlier reported by The Baltimore Sun. Afro News shared photos of the wedding in a post on Facebook. Spokesperson Bryan Doherty said Scott and Pugh exchanged vows in a small, private ceremony officiated by Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays.

Jeff Sessions, then Donald Trump’s attorney general, had faced only about three minutes of a freshman senator’s fusillade of questions before he began to crack. Testifying in front of his former colleagues on the Senate Intelligence Committee as they investigated Russia’s influence on the 2016 election, Sessions fiercely pushed back on criticism that he had failed to disclose his earlier interactions with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Democratic Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada is in the fight of her political life as she tries to hold onto her seat in one of the most competitive House races in the country. Lee, who prides herself on focusing on local issues and staying away from the top of her party’s ticket, says that her region has seen a 400% increase in volunteers since Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, injecting a critical surge in her House race that was always going to come down to turnout.

Nancy Pelosi is speaker emerita of the United States House of Representatives, the first woman to be elected speaker of the House and reportedly a driving force behind President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside in the 2024 race. She’s also a Baltimore girl. Born and raised in the city, Pelosi attended the Institute of Notre Dame, an all-girls Catholic school that has since closed.

Former president Donald Trump touts himself as a businessman who will grow industry and jobs, but his policy proposals call for deep cuts and drastic changes to the D.C. area’s most valuable employer: The federal government. Trump’s Agenda47 policy manifesto and his Republican Party platform seek to “shatter the Deep State” with actions that experts say could be devastating to the area’s economy, such as: Moving up to 100,000 federal government positions “out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America.”

Three weeks after the Board of Public Works approved nearly $150 million in budget reductions for this year, Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Thursday that 36 colleges and universities will share nearly $19 million in grants for campus safety projects. The funding will be administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s Campus Safety Grant program and will include campus security assessments, implementation of enhanced security operations and mechanisms, and emergency management planning.