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By Barbara Britt – WMAL.comBALTIMORE, MD – February 22, 2022The Maryland State Board of Education (MDSE) today voted to begin the process to end the statewide school mask mandate in Maryla...

By John Matthews – WMAL.comWASHINGTON, DC – February 22, 2022WASHINGTON – (WMAL)  If you find yourself stuck in Beltway traffic gridlock Wednesday afternoon, you can blame ̵...

Photo: Gov. Youngkin’s Office.By Heather Curtis – WMAL.comRICHMOND, VA – February 16, 2022Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a bill into law Wednesday requiring school systems t...

NEW YORK (AP) - The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.The verdict capped a monthlong...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. Sou...

WASHINGTON (AP) - So long eggnog, shrimp cocktail and pet-shaped sugar cookies.It's been a less merry holiday scene at the White House this year under COVID-19s shadow. President Joe Biden and first l...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - The COVID-19 omicron variant is "just raging around the world," the White House's top medical adviser said Sunday, and President Joe Biden is planning to give "a stark warning ...

ATLANTA (AP) - Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus bui...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday he cannot back his party's signature $2 trillion social and environment bill, seemingly dealing a fatal blow to President Joe Biden's leading ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) - A U.S. Coast Guard diver lowered from the sky Wednesday braved frigid rapids to get to a car submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, only to find it was too late...