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JOHANNESBURG - The U.S. military says it has carried out six airstrikes in the Gandarshe area of Somalia which killed a total of 62 al-Shabab extremist rebels. In a statement issued Monday, the U.S. m...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia issued an unusually strong rebuke of the U.S. Senate on Monday, rejecting a bipartisan resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khash...

Maria LeafWMAL.comAlex Smith will be home for Christmas.The Redskins Quarterback had been in the hospital since November 18th. Smith broke his lower right fibia and tibia during a game against the Hou...

Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for an upcoming Winter Olympics - most likely for 2030 - in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for t...

NEW YORK - Johnson & Johnson is forcefully denying a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts of asbestos in its baby powder.The report Friday by the Reuters news...

The Peanuts gang is ready for some new adventures.Apple has struck a deal with DHX Media to produce new series, specials and shorts based on the beloved characters from the animated world created by C...

Ex-Donald Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos announced Friday that he will run for Congress in 2020.The announcement comes a week after Papadopoulos was released from federal prison, where he ser...

WASHINGTON- President Donald Trump is announcing that budget director Mick Mulvaney will be his next chief of staff. Trump tweeted Friday that Mulvaney “has done an outstanding job” in his...

NEWTOWN, Conn. - A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, a day of memorial services and moments of silence to mark the sixth anniversary of the massacre of 2...

WASHINGTON - Shaken and facing a prison term, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign because he ...