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WASHINGTON (AP) - Female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third...

As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, honoring when the last enslaved Black people learned they were free, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that ...

Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– Michele Ridge, the wife of former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says her husband remains in critical, but stable condition after suffering a stroke o...

ST. LOUIS (AP/WMAL) - A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators last year pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges.Patricia McCloskey pleaded guil...

With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown...

NEW YORK (AP) - The author of "Fire and Fury," the million-seller from 2018 that helped launched the wave of inside accounts of the Trump White House, will have a last take coming out next month.Micha...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis castigated the Biden administration for creating "a disaster and an emergency" at the nation's border with Mexico and said Wednesday that he would se...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge suffered a stroke Wednesday at his home in suburban Washington, D.C., a longtime aide to the former Pennsylvania governor said....

The Justice Department has abandoned its lawsuit against John Bolton, former President Donald Trump's onetime national security adviser, over his book that officials argued disclosed classified inform...

  The U.S. government has put an end to two Trump administration policies that made it harder for Central American immigrants fleeing violence to qualify for asylum. Attorney General Merrick Garl...