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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon confirmed Monday that the first transgender person has signed a contract to join the US military, a development made possible after a federal judge ruled that the milit...

Rebecca Cashman, Jennifer LeeHARTFORD, Ct. — The Board of Physicians on Monday is meeting in Hartford to consider adding four more conditions to the list in which a patient must be eligible for ...

By Ariane de Vogue and Tal Kopan CNN WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will stay out of the dispute concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for now, mea...

 ATLANTA – A man known as the “stocking strangler,” who was convicted of raping and choking to death three women four decades ago, is set for execution next month in Georgia.Car...

EDGEWOOD, Md. – Two Maryland high school students have been charged after they allegedly wrote a threatening message to try to get school canceled.The Baltimore Sun reports that the Harford Coun...

LOS ANGELES - Former Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin, who has struggled with mental health issues after a 2013 bullying scandal that shook the NFL, was taken into Los Angeles police c...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House was on lockdown for about an hour Friday after a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier. The U.S. Secret Service tweeted that the vehicle "did not breach the sec...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2018/02/23070651/FRI-AM-Cop-Funeral-Wrap-1.mp3 WASHINGTON (WMAL) – The traditional pomp and circumstance of a funeral service for a s...

NASHVILLE — Newly discovered nude cell phone photos may be evidence Nashville’s mayor and her former security chief were having an affair while he was being paid to be her bodyguard, autho...

PARKLAND, FL — Teachers and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading back to campus Friday, more than a week after 17 people were killed there in a mass shooting. According to a...