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DAYTON, Ohio - The shooter who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, had expressed a desire to commit a mass shooting and showed an interest in violent ideology, investigators said Tuesday as the FBI an...

NEW YORK - Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramat...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration froze all Venezuelan government assets in a dramatic escalation of tensions with Nicols Maduro that places his socialist administration alongside a short list of ...

DAYTON, Ohio - Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio's Republican governor plans to outline his proposals designed to deal with gun violence and mental health...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – A notice about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcmenet raids posted in an apartment complex in Silver Spring with a large number of African immigrants ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbor tackled him outside his Kentucky home in 2017. The Republican lawma...

NEW YORK (AP) Stocks dropped 3% on Wall Street, their worst loss of the year, after China countered President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat by letting its currency weaken to the lowest lev...

NEW YORK (AP) - A Florida amateur body builder who admitted sending inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday by a judge who said he concluded th...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government said it considers a shooting at a crowded department store in El Paso, Texas that left seven of its citizens dead an "act of terrorism" against Mexicans and hope...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Monday condemned weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio as "barbaric" attacks and crimes "against all humanity" as he called for bipartisan cooperation to stre...