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B&P Tunnel: As a $6B replacement plan rolls out, some locals protest

Tom Hall

President Biden, Gov. Moore and Mayor Scott on Monday called the new Tunnel project a boon to regional transit and local jobs. Today, perspectives from a Banner reporter, and a local tunnel opponent.

From left to right: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov Aruna Miller listen in as mental health experts weigh during a roundtable that took place at Behavioral Health System in Baltimore City on Friday, January 27, 2023.

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Gov. Wes Moore pushes for early intervention programs to curb violence across Maryland

Wambui Kamau

Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov Aruna Miller joined the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, including mental health experts Friday, to discuss solutions for a wave of violence plaguing young people.

An FBI photograph of documents marked "Top Secret" on the floor of former President Trump's office in Mar-a-Lago, Fla, found during the FBI's court-approved August 8, 2022 search of the Trump property. (DOJ photo via AP)

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Classified docs on the loose: the political & national security costs

Tom Hall

As classified documents continue to turn up where they shouldn't, a White House reporter and an expert on the nation's broken classification system join us to discuss what's going on...

Migrants approach the U.S. border wall from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 21, 2022, on the other side of the border from El Paso, Texas. They join other migrants who've gathered along the Mexican side of Americas' southern border to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that have prevented many from seeking asylum. The High Court ruled on Dec. 27 that the restrictions should stay in place while pending legal challenges run their course. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Biden, immigration and the border: three perspectives on the problem

Tom Hall

NPR's Franco Ordonez, refugee services activist Krish Vignarajah and Baltimore County's new immigrant outreach coordinator Giuliana Valencia-Banks share their insights on America's intractable immigration crisis.

Chris Van Hollen has been the junior US senator from MD since January 3, 2017. From 2003 to 2017, he represented Maryland's 8th congressional district.

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D, Md): Governing in the new Congress

Tom Hall

Maryland's Democratic junior senator discusses how the shifting, post-election balance of power in both houses of Congress could impact the Democrats' urgent legislative agenda.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky) (left) is 80 years old. President Joe Biden, who is still considering whether to run for a second term two years from now, is 79 years old. (AP Photos by J. Scott Applewhite [McConnell] and Joshua Bessex [Biden])

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America's gerontocracy: Are aging leaders weakening our country?

Tom Hall

The editor and a reporter for a new Business Insider series discuss the potential risks of America's aging leadership; then, the director of the Hopkins Human Aging Project weighs in with the latest research.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, describes the actions of former president Donald Trump as she testifies at a June 28, 2022 hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

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Newswrap: Update on bipartisan gun reform; January 6th hearings

Tom Hall

Washington Post national political reporter Theodoric Meyer discusses the bipartisan gun bill signed by President Biden last week, and why it couldn't prevent the July 4 mass shooting in Illinois; plus, progress in the House January 6th Committee investigations.

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, file photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. Civil rights and refugee relief groups have been urging President Biden to lift a pandemic-related ban on families seeking asylum in the United States. Thousands of migrants have been stuck in Mexico because of Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law. The Biden administration has continued the policy first imposed by President Trump that denies many families and nearly all single adults an opportunity to seek asylum on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

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Title 42: Is it time to lift the COVID curb on immigration? Three views.

Tom Hall

An outspoken Arizona sheriff says we need the curb for border control; two immigration experts say Title 42 is an illegal asylum ban masquerading as public health policy.

Alexander Burns, with his New York Times reporter colleague and co-author Jonathan Martin, offers a compelling new account of how COVID, Donald Trump and the January 6th Insurrection have challenged American democracy like never before. (Burns photo (c) Cassidy DuHon/cover image Simon and Schuster)

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"This Will Not Pass": Chronicling an embattled American democracy

Tom Hall

New York Times reporter Alexander Burns, co-author with Times colleague Jonathan Martin, discusses their harrowing new account of how political events of the past 18 months have shaken the foundations of American democracy.

Graduating students fill the Columbia University campus in New York City during a 2017 graduation ceremony. Nearly 45 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in college loan debt, and the federal government is considering a variety of approaches to either forgiving that debt or relieving the burden of monthly repayments. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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America's $1.6 trillion college loan debt problem: Some perspectives

Tom Hall

NPR's education reporter and two Black doctors at Yale Med School talk about steps the federal government is taking to relieve the massive college-loan debt burden now facing 45 million Americans.