🌱 How Fort Meade’s NSA figures into Washington’s surveillance showdown this week

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• How Fort Meade’s NSA figures into Washington’s surveillance showdown this week

Also on today's calendar: 8th Annual Parren J. Mitchell Dinner Salute and 2 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Mostly cloudy and very warm, with a high of 83 and low of 57 degrees.
• Saturday: Very warm with clouds and sun, temps: high: 84, low: 55.
• Sunday: Cooler with showers, with a high of 62 and low of 40 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Trump Summons GOP FISA Holdouts as Spy Law Vote Stalls (military.com) — Fort Meade residents will recognize their community’s NSA campus at the center of a high-stakes fight in Washington over renewing a key surveillance law that expires April 20. Republican lawmakers are split over privacy protections, and Donald Trump is personally lobbying holdouts to keep Section 702 of FISA alive, which officials say is crucial to intelligence and military operations tied to the Fort Meade-based NSA.
   

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📸 Around Fort Meade

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fort Meade

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 18

• Annual Meade Cluster Spring Event
  Meade Senior High School, 1100 Clark Rd, Fort Meade
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Thursday April 23

• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
  
  7:00 pm

Friday April 24

• 8th Annual Parren J. Mitchell Dinner Salute
  Club Meade , 6600 Mapes Rd , Fort Meade
  6:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Purcellville Music and Arts Festival
  250 S. Nursery Ave. , Purcellville
  12:00 pm

Tuesday April 28

• In the Meantime Summit: From Stalled Job Searches to Income & Possibility
  Zoom
  8:30 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Young Child at Play
  Severn Library - Anne Arundel County Public Library , 2624 Annapolis Rd , Severn
  10:30 am
• Sensory Friendly - Neurodivergent Storytime
  Odenton Library - Anne Arundel County Public Library , 1325 Annapolis Rd , Odenton
  10:30 am
• CSP Olympics - Volleyball
  Chesapeake Science Point Hanover, MD 21076
  3:00 pm
• 3rd Annual First Responder Happy Hour
  Crooked Crab Brewing Company , 8251 Telegraph Rd Suite D , Odenton
  5:00 pm
• St. John's at Archbishop Spalding
  Archbishop Spalding High School , 8080 New Cut Rd , Severn
  5:00 pm
• Jefferson Starship
  Horseshoe Casino Baltimore - A Caesars Rewards Destination , 1525 Russell St , Baltimore
  8:00 pm
• Comedy Night At Ovenbird! Presented By Bmore Funny Entertainment
  Ovenbird Bakery , 300 S Exeter St , Baltimore
  8:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Jessup

• Alert For Quality Meat Sky Ranch Beef and Pork Items For Sesame (foodpoisoningbulletin.com)

Severn

• Grocery run turns into jackpot moment at Maryland Walmart (shorenewsnetwork.com)
• Another crop of Maryland prospects ready to make their mark on NFL (wbaltv.com)
• Margaret Wilfong (pocahontastimes.com)

Glen Burnie

• Motorcyclist Hospitalized After Ritchie Highway Collision (patch.com)
• Drive-Thru Coffee Chain To Open 1st Site In County (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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