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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering b...

CHICAGO - Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett is due to make an initial court appearance Monday on a new set of charges alleging that he lied to police about being targeted in a racist and homophobi...

LONDON - The U.S. government began outlining its extradition case against Julian Assange in a London court on Monday, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder is not a free-speech champion but an "ordinary"...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – The Naval Academy is mourning the loss of a 22-year-old midshipman who was found dead in Bancroft Hall Thursday. Early Saturday morning the football tea...

SEATTLE (AP) - Greyhound, the nation's largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks. The compa...

NEW YORK (AP) - NFL player representatives decided Friday to not vote on a new labor deal approved by team owners. Instead, the NFL Players Association is seeking more negotiations with the league nex...

NEW YORK (AP) – The mother of a Mexican municipal worker who was shot in the face by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in New York says she wants justice and the federal agent t...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A freshly dug grave was waiting for the 18-year-old man when gang members lured him to a Maryland park nearly three years ago. They choked him until he passed out. They took turns sla...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said Friday that he's willing to release at least three women from nondisclosure agreements that prevented them from speaking publicl...

NEW YORK - Jurors deliberating in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial indicated Friday that they are deadlocked on the most serious charges, but the judge told them to keep trying. In a note sent to the jud...