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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A REPORT BY WMAL'S MARIA LEAF  John Matthews WMAL.com WASHINGTON — Jim Moran has just two weeks left in his career as a 12-term Congressman representing Virgini...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - Just days before he killed a 17-year-old German exchange student, Markus Kaarma told hairstylists he had been waiting up to shoot some kids who were burglarizing homes. He told ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Opponents of President Barack Obama's sudden move to re-establish ties with Cuba have little chance of scuttling his effort in Congress. His initiative faces some strong r...

NEW YORK (AP) - The unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures which a U.S. official says is linked to North Korea may be the most damaging cyberattack ever inflicted on an American business. The fallout fro...

MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama surprise move to re-establish ties with Cuba was applauded by the men and women in a barber shop on Calle Ocho, the heart of Miami's Cuban exile communit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Freighters once carried Cuban nickel and limestone to the port of New Orleans and North Dakota beans to Havana. Cuban families ate bowls of American rice, while U.S. tourists f...

Sony Pictures has decided not to release the theatrical showing of "The Interview," a film starring James Franco and Seth Rogan. The film is a comedy about two television journalists hired t...

BOSTON (AP) — In the biggest criminal case ever brought in the U.S. over contaminated medicine, 14 former owners or employees of a Massachusetts pharmacy were charged Wednesday in connection wit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Gross says he learned the lesson during five years in Cuban captivity that freedom is not free.Gross spoke in Washington just after returning from Cuba, where he was impri...

(NEW YORK) — A slim majority of Americans support the immigration program created by Barack Obama’s executive action — but divisions on whether he exceeded his authority impede most ...