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  Dave Sweet and Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) The Republican National Committee is severing ties with NBC in favor of CNN for its February 25 debate. Previously the debate was t...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King’s legacy on his birthday, two prominent African-Americans announced Monday that they will boycott this year’s Academy Awards o...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Many western sanctions on Iran are gone. Most of the world is focused on how this could drive oil prices even lower, but Iranians are asking: Will Tehran get McDonald’s ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump pitched himself Monday to Christian students at Liberty University as a politically incorrect protector of Christianity, tailoring his classic stump speech to the...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A Massachusetts police chief took to Facebook on Sunday with an impassioned plea to addicts after his town saw four overdoses in the span of 24 hours. Gloucester Police Chief ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Ted Cruz swatted away the idea that Donald Trump’s conversion to Republicanism was genuine, saying that Trump’s late-life change to conservatism was in no way simi...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Sunday night’s NBC face-off between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was the most-watched Democratic primary debate since October, according to preliminary Nielsen ratin...

TEHRAN — (CNN) When Iranian officials released footage of 10 U.S. sailors being taken captive, it made John Kerry “very, very frustrated,” the secretary of state told CNN on Monday.K...

TEHRAN — (CNN) Several Americans have been released from Iran, but their journey is far from over.From the future of U.S.-Iranian relations to the fate of another missing American, the release c...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Bernie Sanders launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by promising not to go negative — either on the stump or in ads — against Hillary Clinton. But as the rac...