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  BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) – A year of events marking the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s birth is drawing to a close exactly 54 years after his assassination. National ...

  CHICAGO (AP) – Southwest Airlines says it is re-routing calls to reservations after a boiler-room fire at a Chicago facility. An airline spokesman said Wednesday that no one was injured a...

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Astronauts at the International Space Station will be feasting Thursday on pouches of Thanksgiving turkey. The three Americans, two Russians and one Italian wi...

  NEW YORK (AP) – Insurers for defendants including American Airlines and United Airlines have agreed to pay $95 million to settle claims that security lapses led planes to be hijacked in t...

  (CNN) — Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Wednesday that his colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan should leave his post as th...

 (CNN) — Former Bosnian Serb wartime army leader Ratko Mladic has been sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being found guilty of genocide over atrocities committed during the Bosnia...

  (CNN) — Former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates will be able to spend Thanksgiving with their families and leave their homes this week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday....

John Matthews WMAL.com PALM BEACH, FL — President Donald Trump began his Thanksgiving holiday break with a familiar hobby – throwing bombs on Twitter. The President’s first target wa...

BERLIN — A possible terror plot on a Christmas market in Germany was uncovered Tuesday after six Syrian nationals were detained in raids by police, a German intelligence official told CNN. The m...

YOKOSUKA, JAPAN — A US Navy aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed into the Pacific Ocean, southeast of Okinawa on Wednesday. Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told repor...