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WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Eric Fanning to be secretary of the Army, making him the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch. Fanning’s nomination to th...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) More than three months after President Barack Obama asked for $1.8 billion in emergency funds to combat Zika, Congress took its first step Tuesday to approve the request when ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump will sit down with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Wednesday, two sources close to the campaign told CNN. This is one of several meetings the presumptiv...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) In a rebuke to the White House, the Senate approved a bill Tuesday to allow victims and families of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged involvement in the ter...

Grace Palo and Steve Burns WMAL.com https://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2016/05/tue-pm-stv-dc-guns-200.mp3 WASHINGTON — (WMAL) For the second time in Washington, a federal judge ha...

  PORTLAND, OR (CNN) — A local family said the tragic death of their newborn became even worse after they were given the wrong baby’s ashes. The parents of a premature baby who died j...

  SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) — Prosecutors in San Francisco have obtained a felony arrest warrant for two sheriff’s deputies captured on a surveillance video beating a suspect with dozens of...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan would back out of chairing the Republican National Convention in July, if Donald Trump asks him to, his office confirmed Monday.Ryan first made the com...

 NORTH CAROLINA — (CNN)North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department to defend House Bill 2, a law that bans individuals from using public bathrooms that do not cor...

 WASHINGTON — (CNN) Now here’s a deal Homer Simpson can get behind: Krispy Kreme is cashing in.The doughnut chain reached a $1.35 billion deal Monday to be acquired by JAB Holding, a ...