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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) – Joe Gibbs Racing says co-founder J.D. Gibbs, the eldest son of team owner and Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs, has died. He was 49. The team announced J.D. Gi...

  WASHINGTON (AP) -The federal government has entered Day 22 of a partial government shutdown, becoming the longest closure in U.S. history. Nine of the 15 Cabinet-level departments have not been...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – The New York Times reports that law enforcement officials became so concerned by President Donald Trump’s behavior in the days after he fired FBI Director James Co...

Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– The National Weather Service in Sterling, Va has upgraded this weekend’s winter storm. A Winter Storm WARNING is now in effect for the DC metro area until S...

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -The Florida sheriff who was suspended for his office’s handling of a Feb. 14 school massacre says he’s fighting the suspension. Broward County Sheriff Sc...

NEW YORK - It's early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winter's unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses right no...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recovery from cancer surgery is "on track" and no further treatment is required. But the 85-year-old justice will miss court arguments...

MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin teenager missing for nearly three months after her parents were killed in the family home was found alive barely an hour's drive away, by a woman who stumbled across the 13...

DETROIT - Beer drinkers can't claim blissful ignorance for much longer.Starting next month, packages of Bud Light will have prominent labels showing the beer's calories and ingredients as well as the ...

CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought the Trump administration's anti-Iran message to Gulf Arab states on Friday, arriving in Bahrain to continue a nine-nation tour of the Middle East ai...