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MIAMI — Hurricane Irma hurtled through the Caribbean on Friday, leaving catastrophic damage in its wake as it closed in on Florida where it could slam into Miami this weekend.The storm barreled ...

MEXICO CITY — A massive 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Mexico early Friday morning, killing at five people and triggering tsunamis. The quake, which was felt as far as...

Barbara Britt WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)–A suspect in one of our area’s most notorious crimes is poised to plead guilty. 60 year old Lloyd Lee Welch, accused in the disappearance of the tw...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic lawmakers have introduced a measure to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Rep. Barbara Lee introduced the m...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump downplayed the possibility of military action against North Korea on Thursday, saying such an event is neither inevitable nor preferable. “Military acti...

  WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement abo...

WASHINGTON — The Senate approved Thursday a package of bills that paired emergency funding for hurricane relief with measures that would raise the debt ceiling and keep the government open for t...

Wyn DelanoWMAL.comhttps://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/09/07122509/THU-PM-BILL-AMAZON-.wav WASHINGTON (WMAL) — When Amazon announced Thursday that it was seeking a second North-America...

 (CNN) — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday morning that he believes Republican President Donald Trump cut a debt ceiling deal with Democrats Wednesday because the President wanted to av...

  MIAMI, FL — Hurricane Irma hammered a string of northeast Caribbean islands, thrashing them with rain and winds of up to 180 mph, and leaving at least nine people dead. The hurricane batt...