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The legal pressure on the prominent family behind the company that makes OxyContin, the prescription painkiller that helped fuel the nation's opioid epidemic, is likely to get more intense. The Sackle...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe on Friday faced a "total internet shutdown," a media group said, after a days-long violent crackdown on people protesting a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured peop...

Glen Wood, the courtly and innovative patriarch of the famed Wood Brothers Racing team who had been the oldest living member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, died Friday. He was 93. He died on Friday in St...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. and North Korea held highly anticipated talks Friday aimed at resuming stalled efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons program by arranging a second summit between President D...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has identified three of the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria this week.They are Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonatha...

Tesla will cut 7 percent of its workforce as it tries to lower prices and break out of the niche-car market to produce an electric vehicle that more people can afford.Tesla's cheapest model right now ...

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian authorities said Friday that a one-armed explosives expert belonging to the country's last remaining rebel group carried out a car bombing against a police academy that le...

John MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON — (WMAL) Add the region’s Metro system to the casualty list for the current partial government shutdown.In a letter to the region’s U.S. senators, WMA...

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's guiding principles is: "There's no education in the second kick of a mule."Now, deep into a government shutdown he cautioned President...

WASHINGTON — Perdue Foods is recalling 68,244 pounds of gluten-free chicken nuggets sold nationwide over fears of wood contamination, federal officials say.The ready-to-eat chicken nugget items ...