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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Michael Busch, the longest-serving Maryland House speaker in the state's history, has died. He was 72.Alexandra Hughes, the…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - With pomp and sorrow, House Speaker Michael Busch will be laid to rest in Maryland's capital.A skilled bureaucratic and political…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A bipartisan group of local Maryland officials in the Baltimore region are decrying the effects the partial federal shutdown is…

Congressman Andy Harris is making a big financial contribution to attacks on Eastern Shore Democrats seeking reelection to the state legislature.The…

America 24/7, a photographic collaboration profiling a week in the United States, is the latest project from Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen. The pair also shephered the photography project A Day in the Life of America.

National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols calls the Congo Basin jungle of Africa The Last Place on Earth — the title of his new book detailing his adventures in the region.

John F. Kennedy was the first president of the television age, but he's remembered more for his inspiring words. Robert Dallek and Terry Golway have collected Kennedy's most famous speeches in a CD that accompanies their new book Let Every Nation Know.

You notice some everyday phenomenon and search for the word that defines it — only to realize no such word exists. With the help of Atlantic readers, word maven Barbara Wallraff fills in the blanks in a new book.

A portrait of a dashing young sea captain often called the "Black Admiral" was supposed to be a centerpiece for an exhibition of art from the Revolutionary War era about black patriots and loyalists -- but there's a white man underneath a layer of black paint.

After 150 years, the era of the telegram came to a quiet end last week. Romanticized in film and song, the hand-delivered paper messages were made useless by telephones and e-mail.