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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP/WMAL) - A teachers' union in Virginia's largest school district urged its members to call in sick today for a "mental health day" as they ponder how they will respond to a gradual ret...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced he’s signed new laws that will ban no-knock warrants, strengthen the officer decertification process and limit t...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft says Iranian hackers have posed as conference organizers in Germany and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break into the email accounts of "high-profile" people with spoofe...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Eddie Van Halen's Southern California hometown will memorialize the late guitar legend, but it's still unclear what form the tribute will take. The Pasadena City Council on Mon...

NEW YORK (AP) - Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to 120 years on Tuesday for turning some adherents into s...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billio...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democrats and Republicans in the battleground state of Wisconsin were pushing Tuesday to get 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots returned by the close of polls on Election Day af...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday after Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula on a track that forecaste...

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday as a troubling increase in coronavirus counts put investors in a selling mood. The skid came as doubts mount on Wall Street that Washington will come through with more ...