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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - President Joe Biden says he would prefer to cut the duration of programs in his big social services and climate change package rather than eliminate some entirely, as Democrats ...

WMAL NEWSWASHINGTON – Leesburg District School Board member Beth Barts has announced her resignation from the Loudoun County School Board.She made the announcement in a Facebook post and said he...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday that she took her fight with the head of the city's police officers union to court, arguing that his call for officers to ignore the order to re...

CHICAGO (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a last-ditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Jill Biden is set to campaign Friday for Democrats in governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey, her most overt foray into politics since arriving at the White House nin...

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - Bill Clinton was said to be recovering from a urological infection Friday, and an aide to the former president said that Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of U.S. health advisers endorsed booster doses of Johnson & Johnson's single-shot COVID-19 vaccine Friday, saying they should be offered at least two months after immuniz...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped to hide evidence of a rioter's involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrectio...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Biden administration said Friday it will turn next to the U.S. Supreme Court its attempt to halt a Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.The move by the Jus...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school will plead guilty to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing some ...