Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama has designated up to $70 million from a special fund set up by Congress for the purpose of addressing “unexpected urgent refugee and migration nee...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Episcopal Church, long the church of the establishment in the United States, has been suspended by the international Anglican Communion over its acceptance of same-sex mar...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton outside group, is going after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in their first candidate specific web ad. The spot casts Cruz as extreme and ends with text on ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Had enough doom and gloom already this year? Sorry, there’s more to come. The world is facing the greatest risks in a generation, according to experts surveyed by the Wo...

FLORENCE — (CNN) A man has been arrested in connection with the death of Ashley Olsen, a 35-year-old American artist living in Florence, the city’s chief prosecutor told reporters Thursday...

LOS ANGELES — (CNN) “The Revenant” led all films with 12 nominations for the 88th Academy Awards, announced Thursday morning. The film, about a 19th-century frontiersman, earned nomi...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The crashing oil price is taking ever more casualties. Oil’s slump to 13-year lows has led to savage cutbacks in investments by energy companies. Industry consultancy Wo...

LONDON — (CNN) Alan Rickman, the British actor who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films years after his film debut as the “Die Hard” villain Hans Gru...

CHARLESTON, SC — (CNN) The field of candidates fighting for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination is dwindling, leaving seven to compete in the prime-time GOP debate hosted by Fox...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — At least two people were killed after armed men carried out gun and bomb attacks in the heart of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.Five attackers also died, police said. A m...