Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut
NEW YORK (AP) - Decades after going to prison, some of the men responsible for the World Trade Center bombing that killed six people 28 years ago Friday are still trying to whittle down their onetime ...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

US advisers endorse single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from J&J
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health advisers endorsed a one-dose COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson on Friday, putting the nation on the cusp of adding an easier-to-use option to fight the pandemic...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

US implicates Saudi crown prince in journalist’s killing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intell...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

Biden surveys weather harm, encourages virus shots in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) - The president and his wife, Jill, are in Texas to survey damage caused by severe winter weather and to encourage people to get their coronavirus shots.The brutal winter weather across t...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

Mormon church gives $20M to help send vaccines globally
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that it has donated $20 million to help a program aimed at distributing coronavirus vaccines to poor countries ar...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

House to vote on virus bill; arbiter says wage hike a no-go
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are ready to shove a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package through the House on Friday, despite a setback that means a minimum wage boost is unlikely to be in the final ver...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

Militia official: US strike in Syria kills 1, wounds several
BAGHDAD (AP) - A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one fighter and wounding several others, an Iraqi militia official said F...
Syndicated Author Feb 26, 2021

Ex-Washington employees ask NFL to release report findings
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty female former Washington Football Team employees asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to release the final report of an independent investigation into the organiza...
Syndicated Author Feb 25, 2021

House votes to expand legal safeguards for LGBTQ people
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-led House passed a bill Thursday that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation's labor and civil rights laws, a top priority of President Joe Biden, though the l...
Syndicated Author Feb 25, 2021

Pentagon says reported sexual assaults at academies dropped
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of sexual harassment and sexual assault cases reported at the military service academies dropped in the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 school year, the Pentagon said Thursday....
Syndicated Author Feb 25, 2021
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