MARYLAND - The state of Maryland and Uber are battling over background checks. The popular ridesharing service says it will be forced to stop doing business in the state, if regulators force it to adopt a new mandate to fingerprint all drivers. 

Supporters say it will increase safety, but Uber says it's already doing more detail background checks than just fingerprints alone. 

The company says if they are forced to start fingerprinting drivers, they will pull out of Maryland. 

Uber could be forced to stop service in Maryland

A Maryland state law passed last year that enforces Uber and other ride-sharing companies like Lyft have to start using fingerprinting when they do criminal background checks for drivers. 

Toy guns that look like the real thing could be banned under a bill introduced by lawmakers in Baltimore, Maryland. The replica guns have been the key cause of a number of police-involved shooting of children such as Cleveland’s Tamir Rice, which lead to national protests.

Under the bill, which was voted through unanimously by Baltimore City Council on Monday, owning, carrying or otherwise possessing a replica gun that could "reasonably be perceived to be a real firearm" could result in a $250 fine for a first offense, according to The Baltimore Sun.

Fines would rise to $1,000 for second and subsequent offenses.

"If we had our way, we would ban all handguns in the city of Baltimore. We just don’t have the authority to do it," said Baltimore City Councilman Jim Kraft, D-District 1, who sponsored the bill.

WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, has emerged as the favorite to be secretary of state in Donald Trump's administration, a senior Trump official said Monday night.

The official told The Associated Press that there's no real competition for the job and that it's the former New York mayor's if he wants it. The official wasn't authorized to speak on the record and requested anonymity.

President-elect Donald Trump stood by his promise to reject the presidential salary, during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.

“The answer is no,” he said, when asked about his campaign trail promise by CBS interviewer Lesley Stahl. “I think I have to take by law one dollar so I’ll take one dollar a year.”

He admitted that he didn’t even know what the salary was, but when he was told it was $400,000 salary he declined it.

“I’m not taking it,” he said.

He added that he would not be taking too many vacations either.

“There’s so much work to be done and I want to get it done for the people,” he said. “I want to get it done. We’re lowering taxes, we’re taking care of health care.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders will be in Baltimore Thursday.

The former Democratic presidential candidate will speak at Johns Hopkins University.

The talk is part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium -- a student-run lecture series at the university. The event is free and open to the public, but organizers say it's sold-out with overflow rooms planned in several campus buildings.

Sanders' new book, "Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In," is set to publish the week of his Johns Hopkins appearance.