Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

DES MOINES — (CNN) Ted Cruz’s six-day bus trip in Iowa launched as more of religious revival tour than a presidential barnstorm. In the most conservative parts of the state on Monday, the ...

LOWELL, MASS — (CNN) Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday night, delivering a fairly routine stump speech covering well-worn topics such as a southern border wall, ISIS, his pol...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Obama administration will announce a series of executive actions on Tuesday to combat gun violence in the U.S. Among other things, the actions would expand mandatory backg...

BURNS, OR — (CNN) Now, they have a name. And now, we know how long they’re vowing to stay. The armed protesters who took over a federal building in Oregon are calling themselves the Citize...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Chemistry textbooks as we know it are officially out of date, as four new elements will soon be added to the periodic table.Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have formally been rec...

RAMADI — (CNN) The battle for the key Iraqi city of Ramadi has opened a window into the resilience of ISIS. It took months of daily onslaughts before Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition were...

NEW YORK — (CNN) First China, now the United States.America’s manufacturing sector shrank for the second straight month in December. The industry’s key index — ISM — hit ...

DETROIT — (CNN) What a way to begin the new year. Ride hailing firm Lyft just banked a new strategic partner: General Motors.GM said Monday it is investing $500 million in Uber’s main comp...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) 2015 was a record year for background checks for guns.According to FBI data posted Monday, there were 23,141,970 background checks in 2015.That beats the prior record of 21,09...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Talk about a scary start to 2016. Fears of a crash landing in China’s economy sent stocks diving around the world on Monday, the first trading day of the year. The global ...