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VENEZUELA — (CNN) The Treasury Department on Thursday froze U.S. assets of eight members of Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice and barred American citizens from engaging in any financial...

KANSAS CITY — (AP) Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is revealing her new look as a woman, after being freed from a Kansas military prison and a 35-year sentence for leaking classified materials.The tra...

MIAMI — (AP) A former Secret Service officer at the White House got a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to sexting with teenage girls. Thirty-eight-year-old Lee Robert Moore of Churc...

WASHINGTON — (AP) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told senators that he knew FBI Director James Comey was going to be fired even before he wrote a memo that provided a basis for Comey...

  WASHINGTON — (CNN) Former Sen. Joe Lieberman is President Donald Trump’s top pick to be nominated as FBI director, Trump said Thursday. Speaking to reporters while meeting with Colo...

WASHINGTON — (AP) Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he will resign from Congress on June 30, raising questions about the probe of President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. The Republican said i...

SYRIA — (AP) U.S. officials say an American airstrike has hit pro-Syrian government forces in southern Syria as they were setting up fighting positions in a protected area. The officials say the...

DETROIT — (AP) Rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, committed suicide. He was 52. A medical examiner confirmed that Cornell committed sui...

(CNN) — An 18-year-old woman has died after a car hit pedestrians in Times Square. The motor vehicle incident in Manhattan’s bustling Times Square Thursday has left at least 23 people inju...

John MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) The short statement released by the White House Wednesday night is no longer the official response of record regarding the appointment of former FBI Dire...