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© Getty Images Nearly all of the members of Maryland’s congressional delegation signed a letter to President Biden on Thursday asking him to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the five people killed in the Capital Gazette newsroom shooting.  Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman, John McNamara and Rebecca Smith were killed in 2018 when a gunman opened fire in the newspaper's Annapolis, Md., office, the deadliest attack on journalists in American history. “Though their memories have been honored in numerous ways since the attack, including through the forthcomi...

Trump signs bill authorizing memorial to fallen journalists Tal Axelrod © The Hill Trump signs bill authorizing memorial to fallen journalists President Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday evening authorizing a monument honoring journalists who were killed while reporting the news. The Fallen Journalists Memorial Act, which passed through Congress with bipartisan support earlier this month, permits the Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation to plan and raise funds for the construction of a permanent memorial in Washington, D.C. The bill was sponsored by Sens. Ben C...