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Neptune Yacht Club Celebrates 71 Years of Maritime Legacy with Flag Raising Ceremony in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
The Baltimore Times - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
On Saturday, June 14, 2025, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor bore witness to a powerful symbol of heritage, resilience, and Black excellence as the Neptune Yacht Club (NYC) celebrated its 71st anniversary with its Annual Flag Raising Ceremony. Held at...
Maryland Governor Marks Juneteenth With Another Mass Marijuana Pardon For Nearly 7,000 People
Marijuana Moment
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June 19, 2025
The governor of Maryland has issued another mass pardon for people with past marijuana possession convictions, granting clemency to about 7,000 more people on the holiday Juneteenth that commemorates the end of slavery. Gov. Wes Moore (D) has been...
Science says plastic bag bans really do work
Grist Magazine
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June 19, 2025
When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an analysis of policies to restrict plastic bag...
Opera Baltimore to Participate in DeVos Institute of Arts and Nonprofit Management’s A³ Program
Opera Wire
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June 19, 2025
Opera Baltimore is one of 16 organizations nationwide that will participate in DeVos Institute of Arts and Nonprofit Management’s A³. The seven-month initiative aims to explore the ethical, transparent, and human-centered uses for artificial...
"No one will ever erase us": New historical marker honors the enslaved that helped build Baltimore
WMAR-2 News - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
CANTON — The names of the 48 enslaved persons who lived at the Canton Plantation in the late 18th century, once lost to history, are now on public display. WATCH: New historical marker honors the enslaved that helped build Baltimore New historical...
12 universities, including UW, sue Department of Defense and Hegseth over research funding cap
The Columbian - Washington State
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BALTIMORE — A group of American research universities has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, seeking to retain millions of dollars in research funding. The universities filed the suit Monday...
Aruna Miller promotes Maryland as a national hub for life sciences
The American Bazaar
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June 19, 2025
Maryland’s Indian American Lt. Governor Aruna K. Miller promoted the state as a national hub for life sciences at the BIO International Convention, the world’s largest biotech industry event, in Boston, MA, this week. She led a Maryland delegation...
Basketball Portal Power: Rutgers and Maryland
Off Tackle Empire - Washington D.C.
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June 19, 2025
Hello everybody. College basketball rosters have the look of a drunk game of Yahtzee these days, so we will take a moment to try and figure out who is on your team. With the ever changing eligibility rules, I’d rather move used refrigerators, so...
Scientists just expanded the search for rocky alien worlds with air
Mashable
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June 19, 2025
Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint stars might have air. Scientists leading a high-priority observing program with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have added...
Scientists give mosquitoes an STD to save lives.
Euro Weekly News
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June 19, 2025
A genetically modified fungus is infecting mosquitoes to reduce malaria transmission across Africa. Credit: buchse12 from pixabay via Canva.com In the fight against malaria, scientists have tried everything, ranging from bed nets and vaccines to...
Maryland To Tax Digital & IT Services Starting July 1 Under New Law
The Bay Net - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland Comptroller’s Office issued a Technical Bulletin to prepare businesses that are impacted by new changes in Maryland tax law passed by the General Assembly during the 2025 legislative session. Under the law, the first...
UMD joins 10 research universities in lawsuit against defense department research cuts
The Diamondback - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
The University of Maryland filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Defense and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to combat the federal government’s efforts to slash research funding. This university filed the suit along with 10 other...
Maryland first US state to adopt V2G interconnection rules
Industrial News
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June 19, 2025
Image courtesy 123rf The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has unanimously voted to adopt a comprehensive suite of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interconnection rules for both DC and AC systems, becoming the first US state to do so. The rules were...
Mass Spectrometry's Usefulness in Toxicology Research: An Interview with Tian (Autumn) Qiu
LCGC International
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Key Points Tian (Autumn) Qiu has been named one of the ASMS 2025 Research Award winners, and received her award at the ASMS conference in Baltimore. Environmental toxicology is one of Qiu's passions, specifically studying the implications of...
Budget Cuts Announced By Six More Major Research Universities
Forbes
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Cornell University is among several research universities recently announcing new austerity measures ... More as they face increased financial challenges.Getty The budget cuts at major research universities keep piling up, as more federal funding...
'Baltimore Built, Navy Refined': Commander Vance Scott returns home to inspire future leaders
WMAR-2 News - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
BALTIMORE — Commander Vance Scott has traveled the world in service to his country—but no matter how far the Navy has taken him, his roots remain firmly planted in Baltimore. WATCH: Navy Commander inspires hometown youth 'Baltimore Built, Navy...
Mother-son duo living ‘Be Incredible’ logo at Baltimore Women’s Classic 5K
Baltimore Sun - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
In the animated franchise “The Incredibles,” Dash is the second of three children to Bob and Helen Parr who possesses superhuman speed. To Michelle and Michael Daichman, of Towson, Dash was the perfect name for their son when they adopted him in...
Baltimore will keep CIAA tournament through 2029, officials announce
Technical.ly
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June 18, 2025
An annual basketball tournament held during Black History Month and bringing a wide economic footprint will stay in Baltimore through the end of the decade, local officials announced. Public and private sector leaders on Wednesday gathered at the...
What to do in Baltimore this weekend, including AFRAM and Juneteenth events
Baltimore Banner - Maryland
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June 19, 2025
There might not be a better city to celebrate Juneteenth in than Baltimore — just take a look at all of this weekend’s events, including the beloved AFRAM festival on Saturday and Sunday. Thursday, Juneteenth Jubilee This celebration of 20 years...
NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth’s Oxygen and Magnetic Field
NASA
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June 18, 2025
For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests that processes deep inside...