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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's and Democratic rival Joe Biden's campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials said Thursday that Russian hackers have targeted the networks of dozens of state and local governments in the United States in recent days, stealing data from at least...

U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: Remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given through an IV for patients needing hospitalization. The drug, which California-based Gile...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declined to sign into law a measure designed to discourage racial profiling of motorists by police, concerned that some language could prevent authorit...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York court on Thursday upheld a decision dismissing state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort on double jeopardy grounds, affirming a lower court finding that they mirro...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Following up on a promise earlier this week, President Trump has released the full interview he conducted with CBS’s Lesley Stahl for Sunday’s episode o...

WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden won’t rule out studying the addition of members to the Supreme Court as part of a commission he plans to name to look at ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck, but the more serio...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, keeping President Donald...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– The FBI says it has learned that Russia and Iran “have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections.”At a news conferenc...