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Tennis star Naomi Osaka has lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games, ending the flame's long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics.The cauldron sat atop a peak inspired by ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland's Major League Baseball team will be called Guardians.The ballclub announced the name change Friday - effective at the end of the 2021 seaso...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Of the close to 500 children that have come to Montgomery County, Md from the US-Mexico border so far this year, only a fraction have been registered for classes in...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Justice Department said Thursday it will not open a civil rights investigation related to COVID-19 deaths in Michigan's nursing homes.The notification to Gov. Gretchen Whitme...

 DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative political commentator Candace Owens against USA Today and another media organization over fact-checking coronavi...

Washington Post politics reporter Felicia Sonmez sued the paper and several of its current and former editors for discriminating against her as a victim of sexual assault. In a suit filed Wednesday in...

BEIJING (AP) - China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday. Zeng Yixin, the vi...

NFL teams have been warned they could forfeit a game due to a COVID-19 outbreak among non-vaccinated players, and players on both teams wouldn't get paid that week. "As we learned last year, we can pl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection "will do the job it set out to do" despite Republicans' vow to boycott the probe. House GOP ...

NEW YORK (AP/WMAL) - Major websites went down Thursday in what appeared to be a brief but widespread outage. The websites of Airbnb, AT&T, Capital One, Costco, Delta and many others showed error m...