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September 18, 2017

Another major deal in defense sector as global tensions rise

Northrop Grumman is buying Orbital ATK for about $7.8 billion, with a backdrop of rising global tensions accelerating big ...

September 17, 2017

Penny Chenery, owner of Triple Crown champ Secretariat, dies

Penny Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her ailing father's dream to win ...

September 15, 2017

Trump revives debate on hate groups, then condemns them

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving ...

September 15, 2017

Trump renews talk of 'bad dudes' opposing white supremacists

President Donald Trump on Thursday revived his assertions that he thought there were "bad dudes" among the people who ...

September 14, 2017

Scott suggests Trump be more careful on racial matters

The Senate's lone black Republican urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid inflammatory racial rhetoric such as ...

September 13, 2017

Frank from Falls Church, VA, to mow White House lawn

President Donald Trump is taking up an offer from an 11-year-old in Virginia to help cut the White House grass.

September 13, 2017

Congress backs measure condemning white nationalists

Congress has backed a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist ...

September 12, 2017

Man sentenced in 1975 girls' murder case that alarmed region

It was an innocent time in a safe place, where parents didn't think twice about letting their kids walk to the local shopping ...

September 12, 2017

Mnuchin says he's still hopeful for tax bill by year's end

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that he is hopeful Congress will pass a major tax overhaul this year and ...

September 12, 2017

Appalachian poor, left out of health debate, seek free care

They arrived at a fairground in a deep corner of Appalachia before daybreak, hundreds of people with throbbing teeth, failing ...

September 11, 2017

Racial politics color New York City's looming mayoral race

Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't much of a dancer. But there he was on a recent Sunday morning, bobbing his head and bending his ...

September 10, 2017

Larson steals win in NASCAR regular season finale

Kyle Larson and his Chip Ganassi Racing team needed a break, and it came with two laps to go. Running second to a dominant ...

September 09, 2017

The Latest: Irma regains strength to Category 5 hurricane

The Latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 11:10 p.m. The National Hurricane Center says Irma has strengthened back into ...

September 09, 2017

Hamlin: Penalties are fine as long as they're uniform

Denny Hamlin will likely be without his crew chief for the first race of NASCAR's playoffs, and the Joe Gibbs Racing driver ...

September 08, 2017

Earnhardt, Logano facing win or else scenario at Richmond

Dale Earnhardt Jr. says he hasn't imagined a fairy tale finish to his last NASCAR regular season. Retiring at the end of the ...

September 08, 2017

Judge: Challenge to government watch list can go forward

A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government's terrorist watch list to go forward.

September 08, 2017

Report: Suspect in 1975 sisters' slaying to plead guilty

A convicted sex offender accused in the 1975 murders of two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping mall is ...

September 08, 2017

Ex-Trump strategist: White House aides must defend president

President Donald Trump's ex-strategist is blasting White House aides who publicly distance themselves from the president's ...

September 07, 2017

DeVos planning to scrap Obama rules on campus sexual assault

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared on Thursday that "the era of 'rule by letter' is over" as she announced plans to ...