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LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump is congratulating Republican John Cox for his second-place finish in California’s primary for governor, saying the “Trump impact was really big&#...

WASHINGTON - Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May.May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to f...

JERUSALEM – A senior official at the Argentine Football Federation says the national team decided to cancel its World Cup warmup match with Israel after receiving threats from the Islamic milita...

RICHMOND, Va. – The Latest on a soldier who is accused of stealing an armored personnel carrier from a National Guard base (all times local): 11 a.m. The Virginia National Guard says the 29-year...

NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia school board’s transgender-bathroom ban is one step away from being reviewed by a federal appeals court. A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday granted the Glouce...

Bryan Taylor WMAL.com   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Washington Capitals released tickets for their viewing party at Capital One Arena for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. In a matter of minutes,...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is commuting the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman convicted of drug offenses whose cause was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West. T...

WASHINGTON — The maker of Jack Daniel’s says tariffs are making it difficult to plan for the future. The company, Brown-Forman, reported strong revenue and profit growth for the fiscal yea...

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyers sued the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday to try to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Manhattan federal court lawsuit on behalf of i...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access - albeit briefly - to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite r...