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WASHINGTON - The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged to $984.4 billion, its highest point in seven years, and is widely expected to top the $1 trillion mark in coming years.The 26% surge f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Actress Felicity Huffman was released Friday morning from a federal prison in California on the 11th day of a 14-day sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal, authoritie...

BRUSSELS - Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Friday that the United States will leave more American troops and armored vehicles in eastern Syria to help prevent Islamic State militants from gaining acces...

LOS ANGELES - California's biggest utility admitted its electrical equipment may have ignited a wildfire burning in wine country Friday, despite blackouts imposed across the region to prevent blazes. ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has shifted its review of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation, a person familiar with the matter says. It's a move that is likely to raise concerns that Pr...

WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) – President Donald Trump says he is planning to attend the World Series on Sunday if it goes to a fifth game. President Trump told reporters Thursday afternoon he’s &#...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof that the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was in fact granted law enforcement authority decades ...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – America’s longest-serving state senate president is stepping down from the leadership post after more than 30 years. Mike Miller, 76, said his m...

ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter is out of the hospital where he was treated after fracturing his pelvis in a recent fall, a spokeswoman said Thursday. Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Con...

BALTIMORE - The body of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings is lying in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Represent...