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WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials are giving $350 million to researchers in four states hit hardest by the deadly opioid epidemic. The study announced Thursday aims to cut overdose deaths by 40% over...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he plans to introduce legislation to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 nationally. The Senate leader said Thursd...

Attorney General William Barr says President Donald Trump did not exert executive privilege over any information included in special counsel Robert Mueller's report.He said the White House counsel rev...

RICHMOND, Va. - Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe won't run for president in 2020, meaning establishment, centrist Democrats will have one less option in a nominating free-for-all that so far has h...

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in nearly half a century.The Labor Department says claims for jobless aid fell by 5,000 last week to 192,000, lowes...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea announced that it has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon.The Korean Central News Agency says Chairman Kim Jong Un observed the firing of the weapon W...

Juan Herrera WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) - Alex Trebek, the host of ‘Jeopardy!’, said he was ‘feeling good’ in a video on the game show’s official Twitter account, where h...

WASHINGTON - After nearly two years of waiting, America will get some answers straight from Robert Mueller. The Justice Department on Thursday is expected to release a redacted version of the special ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The Trump administration on Wednesday intensified its crackdown on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, rolling back Obama administration policy and announcing new restrictions and sanc...

LIMA, Peru - Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia shot himself in the head and died Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a massive graft probe that has put the country's most prominent polit...