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The road from Maryland’s statehouse to the nation’s capital is a relatively short 30 miles, but for all the difference between Annapolis and Washington, the two cities could be 30 light-years away. Maryland is routinely deemed one of the nation’s better-governed states, its social safety net earning praise for protecting citizens during the coronavirus pandemic. Washington has passed from partisan division to a more advanced stage of political combat, in which progressives are fighting Democrats, conservatives are fighting Republicans and President Trump sends everyone into disarray. Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, arrived in Washington with a simple message:...

One of President Donald Trump’s numerous election lawsuits was filed in the wrong federal court. Like, the really wrong court. On Tuesday, a campaign lawyer filed a Michigan-focused federal lawsuit in the Washington, D.C.-based Court of Federal Claims–which has no authority to hear an electoral fraud themed lawsuit whatsoever.

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has favoured formation of suicide squads amongst Hindus to take on the menace of terrorism. "If such suicide squads are formed then only we can take on perpetrators of mindless violence", Thackeray said in party mouthpiece Saamna here on Tuesday. The Sena chief, in his Dussehra message, exhorted people to be bold as he lashed out at state and Central govenments for failing to effectively counter the scourge of terrorism. Meanwhile, following intelligence reports that Jaish-e-Mohammed ultras have sneaked into the metropolis, unprecedented security has been deployed at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, where Thackeray...