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WASHINGTON (AP) — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define th...

(NEW YORK) — We've known since April that David Letterman's leaving The Late Show next year. Now, we know when. CBS announced on Wednesday that May 20, 2015 will be Letterman's la...

(NEW YORK) — One white former NYPD Sergeant recalled a time when he bumped into a black colleague who had been working “deep” undercover and was standing outside the courthouse after...

(WASHINGTON) — Turns out a taxman’s house is the oldest building still standing on the National Mall. The 178-year-old stone structure — known as the Lockkeeper’s House —...

John Matthews WMAL.com  WASHINGTON — It looks like Congress will avert a government shutdown after top lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday on a 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that will...

GENEVA (AP) — The global airline industry expects its profits to leap to a record high next year, boosted by a continued fall in jet fuel prices as well as strong passenger demand and cost cuts....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is taking some whole grains off the school lunch line.A massive year-end spending bill released Tuesday doesn't allow schools to opt out of healthier school meal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For President Barack Obama, the long-delayed release of a scathing Senate report on harsh CIA interrogations underscores the degree to which the legacy of George W. Bush’s nati...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Time running short, Republicans and Democrats agreed Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and delay a politically-charged struggle over Presi...

WASHINGTON (AP) – An official with the National Transportation Safety Board says just before a jet crashed into a Maryland  home, killing six, it slowed to just over 100 miles per hour and ...