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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho public health leaders activated "crisis standards of care" for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.The...

Heather Curtis WMAL.comGov. Larry Hogan walked through debris littered streets of Annapolis and Edgewater on Thursday looking at buildings torn apart by a tornado on Wednesday afternoon that formed as...

McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe told northern Virginia business leaders Wednesday that the recently enacted abortion legislation in Texas serves as a warning about what might happen if Rep...

NEW YORK (AP) - Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of "Top Gun: Maverick," sending another of the fall's top movies out of 2021 due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the delta va...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will visit Louisiana later this week to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and speak with local and state leaders, the White House said Wednesday. Ida was the ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - More than 30 California children are stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled to the country to see their relatives weeks before the Taliban seized power and were unable to get out be...

HONOLULU (AP) - A 24-year-old Illinois woman submitted a fake COVID-19 vaccination card to visit Hawaii with a glaring spelling error that led to her arrest: Moderna was spelled "Maderna," according t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House officials are outlining plans to build and restore more than 2 million homes, a response to the volcanic rise in housing prices over the past year. Millions of Americans ...

A federal bankruptcy judge prepared to rule Wednesday on whether to accept a settlement between OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, the states and thousands of local governments over an opioid crisis that ...

A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect at midnight, but the Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold.If allowed to remain in force, the law would...