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COLUMBIA, SC — (CNN) The battle may at last be over for the Confederate battle flag.Just over 150 years after the Civil War ended, and less than a week after the massacre of innocents in a Charl...

LOS ANGELES — (CNN) Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday, accused of assaulting someone with a kettlebell at the university where his son plays football.No one was seri...

NEW YORK — (CNN) — The tools used by inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat to escape from an upstate New York prison may have been smuggled inside a frozen chunk of hamburger meat, a source...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama will head to Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday to deliver the eulogy at funeral services for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the state senator who was one o...

CHARLESTON, SC — (CNN) South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House. “Today we are here in a moment of unity...

https://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2015/06/raw-hogan-entrire1.mp3 ANNAPOLIS, MD — (CNN) Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday he has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma...

OWLS HEAD, NY — (CNN) DNA from New York prison escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat has been found inside a burglarized cabin in upstate New York, a law enforcement source told CNN.The discover...

 CHARLESTON, SC – (CNN) Of the thousands of services in the church’s 199-year history, the one Sunday took on an added poignancy.Behind the podium at Emanuel African Methodist Episcop...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — In the eyes of the State Department, ISIS is beating al Qaeda at being the world’s leading terrorist group. The “unprecedented” spread and brutality of ISIS,...

NEW YORK (CNN) - As the manhunt widened, authorities searching for two murderers who broke out of an upstate New York prison are “geared up for the long haul,” New York State Police Maj. C...