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(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday night that the Justice Department will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man wh...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA’s new Orion spacecraft will have to wait another day to fly.Wind gusts and a sticky rocket valve forced the Cape Canaveral launch team to call off Thursday’...

WARNING: AUDIO WITHIN THIS LIVE STREAM FROM PROTESTERS MAY CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGEJohn MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON — Angry –  but apparently peaceful – protesters gathered in dow...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Potential employers won't be able to test applicants for marijuana in the District of Columbia until after they've made a conditional job offer under a bill approved ...

(ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates) — An American woman stabbed to death in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall by an assailant wearing a body-covering abayah was a kindergarten teacher who had been mentor...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official denied Wednesday that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, adding that she is the sister of a te...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dramatic government test results raise new concern that bulk shipments of rechargeable lithium batteries carried as cargo on passenger planes are susceptible to fires or explos...

LOS ANGELES — (AP) Some cybersecurity experts say it is unlikely North Korea was behind the cyberattack that crippled Sony Pictures' computers and possibly leaked unreleased movies onl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a pregnancy discrimination case with the potential to affect many American women who continue to work throughout their pregnancies. The case befo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hours of downpours brought California a dose of relief from a three-year drought with few of the negative consequences the long-awaited storm had threatened, at least so far. ...