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Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– Michele Ridge, the wife of former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says her husband remains in critical, but stable condition after suffering a stroke o...

ST. LOUIS (AP/WMAL) - A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators last year pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges.Patricia McCloskey pleaded guil...

With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government's response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown...

NEW YORK (AP) - The author of "Fire and Fury," the million-seller from 2018 that helped launched the wave of inside accounts of the Trump White House, will have a last take coming out next month.Micha...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis castigated the Biden administration for creating "a disaster and an emergency" at the nation's border with Mexico and said Wednesday that he would se...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge suffered a stroke Wednesday at his home in suburban Washington, D.C., a longtime aide to the former Pennsylvania governor said....

The Justice Department has abandoned its lawsuit against John Bolton, former President Donald Trump's onetime national security adviser, over his book that officials argued disclosed classified inform...

  The U.S. government has put an end to two Trump administration policies that made it harder for Central American immigrants fleeing violence to qualify for asylum. Attorney General Merrick Garl...

MIAMI (AP) - Royal Caribbean International is postponing for nearly a month one of the highly anticipated first sailings from the U.S. since the pandemic began because eight crew members tested positi...

CHICAGO (AP) - Five people standing outside on Chicago's West Side were shot in a violent end to a day that began with a mass shooting on the city's South Side that left four people dead and four more...