Obama to visit Baltimore mosque, plead for tolerance

President Barack Obama plans to visit a mosque near Baltimore on Wednesday to make a plea for tolerance and religious freedom, the White House said Sunday. It will be Obama's first visit as president to an American mosque -- though he visited a Jakarta mosque during a 2010 visit -- and comes at a time when American Muslims have reported a surge of anti-Muslim sentiment, linked partly to comments from Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. "The president will travel to Maryland to visi