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NEW YORK - Cigarette smoking rates have stopped falling among U.S. kids, and health officials believe youth vaping is responsible. For decades, the percentage of high school and middle school students...

  WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) – Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has issued an apology for tweets made against Jewish Americans and US support for Israel. Listening and learning, but standing str...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday insisted that freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar immediately apologize for tweets saying that members of Congress are being paid by a powerful interest group to...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Monday to withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico in defiance of the Trump administration's ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Hungary on the first leg of a five-nation European tour during which he will raise concerns about China and Russia's growing influence in ...

RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia lawmaker on Monday backed off his plans to swiftly introduce an impeachment bill seeking the ouster of the state's leading black elected official as Democrats struggled to a...

  Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON - (WMAL) Things are looking even worse for Virginia’s Lt Gov. Justin Fairfax. A classmate of his at Duke University said Fairfax raped her when they wen...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told his top staff Friday that he is not going to resign over the racist photo that has roiled state politics, despite intense pressure to step down, accord...

SYDNEY - Australian police arrested six people after what authorities said Friday was the largest single seizure of methamphetamine in the United States and the biggest drug haul bound for Australia. ...

CUCUTA, Colombia - U.S. humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela was being prepared at a warehouse on the Colombian border Friday, as opposition leader Juan Guaido assured his desperate countrymen that...