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Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– D.C. has a new sports franchise. The “D.C. Defenders” have been announced as one of eight teams for the XFL. That’s the league owned by the WWE&...

Juan Herrera WMAL.com WASHINGTON - “Dancing With the Stars” host Tom Bergeron issued a statement on Wednesday, detailing his disagreement with the show’s executive producer over the ...

ATLANTA - Georgia has asked a federal judge not to block the state's restrictive abortion law from taking effect and to dismiss a challenge to the constitutionality of the measure.The law bans abortio...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his administration is a looking at tax cut proposals but not as a response to a potential recession. He says, "I'm looking at that all the time anyway." Trump ...

LAS VEGAS - Fearing they could be overwhelmed with visitors, officials in the remote Nevada county that's home to the Area 51 military base have drafted an emergency declaration and a plan to team res...

DALLAS - Airlines expect record crowds over the week-long Labor Day period, continuing a rise in travel that has boosted the airlines' profits all year. The trade group Airlines for America forecast T...

CHICAGO - A federal judge hearing the city of Chicago's lawsuit against Jussie Smollett says she'll rule on the actor's request to toss the suit in October. The 10-minute status hearing Tuesday was th...

A truck driver has been arrested after saying he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities say in newly filed court records. Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended i...

NEW YORK - Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier's fortune. ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to. That’s according to an Associated Press...