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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would block suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving Social Security benefits is heading to President Barack Obama for his signature.By voice vote late Thursday,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bull's-eye" Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic journey 3,604 miles beyond Earth. The achievement o...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers probing politically motivated traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge last year have found no evidence that Gov. Chris Christie was involved in t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police body cameras have become a rallying cry in the wake of racially charged decisions by grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, but experts caution that inc...

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A REPORT BY WMAL’S NICOLE RAZ Nicole Raz WMAL.com GAITHERSBURG — Nearly 40 years after their disappearance from the Wheaton Plaza shopping center, Montgomery County...

(AUSTIN, Texas) — The mystery of what happened to 100 missing brains from a Texas university was solved Wednesday when officials determined that the brains being sought had been destroyed over a...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — With temperature data showing 2014 currently tied for the hottest year on record, the U.N. weather agency on Wednesday rejected claims that global warming has paused. The World...

(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...