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HELSINKI — (CNN) The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health — and their bank balances.Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free b...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Donald Trump, for the first time since taking office, has tweeted about violence in Chicago, saying: “I will send in the Feds” if they don’t fix th...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Donald Trump will take executive action Wednesday directing federal resources toward building a border wall, a White House official confirmed to CNN.The move begins ...

NEW YORK — (CNN) The book publisher Penguin is printing more copies of George Orwell’s dystopian classic “1984” in response to a sudden surge of demand.On Tuesday evening and W...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations, making her the fourth member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to be approved even...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday barring the use of any taxpayer money for abortions, days before a large contingent of anti-abortion activists are sche...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Senate Democrats are offering President Donald Trump a $1 trillion proposal to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure — but he’d have to split with Republ...

  Steve Burns WMAL.com https://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2017/01/TUE-PM-STV-SPRINGBROOK-1.wav   SILVER SPRING — (WMAL) The principal at Springbrook High School in Silve...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Donald Trump has asked FBI Director James Comey to stay on the job, a law enforcement source said Tuesday. Comey had no intention of resigning, law enforcement offic...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive actions to advance approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. The decision to advance the pipelines cast a...