"The Department of Defense is withholding more than $100 million combined from a military laboratory at Fort Detrick and an organization at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

It is unclear why the Defense Department is withholding the $104 million from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, although Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said it might be related to the research shutdown of USAMRIID’s biosafety level 3 and 4 laboratories over the summer.

Less work was done at USAMRIID while its BSL-3 and BSL-4 work was halted, Cardin said, which may have made it appear the military lab did not need as much money as it does. He did not think it was retaliatory.

It is also unknown how the $104 million is divided between Fort Detrick and Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County. Cardin said he thought the majority would be withheld from USAMRIID.

“This process has been shrouded in secrecy at the DoD level,” Van Hollen said in an interview."

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Maryland: "Coaches, teachers and administrators of Damascus High School failed to stop the school football team's violent hazing ritual, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of four rape victims. The school football team's tradition, called "brooming," involved the forcible sodomizing of younger players with a broom, according to the lawsuit.

The story made national headlines in 2018 when four 15-year-old boys were charged as adults for the alleged rape of fellow junior varsity football players in the Damascus team locker room."

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