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LONDON (AP) — Britain's main political parties agreed Thursday to grant Scotland new tax and spending powers to fulfill a promise of greater autonomy made as politicians scrambled to persua...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's no free lunch — or breakfast or dinner — for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter. He has to dig into his pocke...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has issued an executive action that some of his Republican opponents may be hard-pressed to disagree with – sparing Thanksgiving turkeys from the d...

(NEW YORK) — Thanksgiving is every dieter's nightmare: turkey slathered in gravy, candied sweet potatoes with marshmallows, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce and buttery, and calorie-la...

(WASHINGTON) — A team of U.S. special operations forces conducted a joint raid in a remote region of Yemen Tuesday to rescue eight hostages being held in a cave by al Qaeda in the Arabian Penins...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Several people protesting the Ferguson grand jury decision stormed into City Hall in St. Louis on Wednesday, leading police to lock down the building and to call in more tha...

(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — The University of Virginia said Tuesday that it has adopted a zero-tolerance policy in dealing with sexual assaults on campus, after an explosive report about rapes that...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An FBI spokeswoman says two special agents have been shot in St. Louis County, but the incident is not related to the Ferguson protests. Rebecca Wu, a spokeswoman with the FBI S...

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — One of the busiest, most stressful travel days of the year posed special challenges in the crowded Washington-to-Boston corridor as travelers on their way to Thanksgiving ce...

John Matthews WMAL.com ASHBURN, VA — Take a seat, RGIII.   As first reported late Tuesday night by ESPN's Adam Schefter, the Washington Redskins are planning to start Colt McCoy at qua...