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WASHINGTON — (CNN) McDonald’s is leading a group of companies to provide badly needed assistance to the United Nations’ World Food Programme as it struggles to feed millions of Syria...

(CNN) The leading Muslim civil liberties group in America called Monday for Republican Ben Carson to drop out of the presidential race after the retired neurosurgeon said this weekend he doesn’t...

John MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) It wasn’t supposed to be this way after Week 2 in the NFL. The Redskins were supposed to be cellar-dwellers. The Cowboys were supposed to be skatin...

HAVANA — (CNN) After a warm reception by multitudes who attended Mass in Havana’s Revolution Square a day earlier, Pope Francis heads east to Holguin, Cuba, where he will hold a second Mas...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Pope Francis and his audiences will see a level of security normally reserved for national political conventions and the presidential State of the Union address during the Pon...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Defense Secretary Ashton Carter spoke with his Russian counterpart Friday as Russian military moves inside Syria continued to escalate with the arrival of fighter jets. In a &...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Although House Republican leaders still have no plan to avoid a government shutdown, they moved forward Friday with a pair of votes on abortion-related legislation they hope g...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Police on Mackinac Island, Michigan, said Friday they are investigating allegations of a bar fight between top aides for Republican presidential contenders Rand Paul and Marco...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease that is believed to be linked with repeated head trau...

IRVING, TX — (CNN) The week started pretty terribly for Texas high school student Ahmed Mohamed. On Monday, the teen, who is Muslim, brought to school a clock that he was proud to have made on h...