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(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday night that the Justice Department will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man wh...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA’s new Orion spacecraft will have to wait another day to fly.Wind gusts and a sticky rocket valve forced the Cape Canaveral launch team to call off Thursday’...

WARNING: AUDIO WITHIN THIS LIVE STREAM FROM PROTESTERS MAY CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGEJohn MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON — Angry –  but apparently peaceful – protesters gathered in dow...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Potential employers won't be able to test applicants for marijuana in the District of Columbia until after they've made a conditional job offer under a bill approved ...

(ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates) — An American woman stabbed to death in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall by an assailant wearing a body-covering abayah was a kindergarten teacher who had been mentor...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official denied Wednesday that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, adding that she is the sister of a te...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby was sued Tuesday by a Southern California woman who claims the comedian molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15 years old.Judy ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police are investigating Michael Brown's stepfather for angry comments on the streets of Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally sh...

(WASHINGTON) — President Obama intends to nominate former Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter as the new secretary of defense, ABC News has confirmed. A formal announcement is likely to co...

(BEIRUT) — The wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been arrested after crossing into Lebanon from Syria with fake documents, Lebanese security and military officials told ABC News.The w...