Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

NEW YORK — (CNN) George “Meadowlark” Lemon, the basketball star who entertained millions of fans around the world with his antics as a longtime member of the Harlem Globetrotters, di...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Christmas shopping procrastinators were good for Amazon. The online retailer says it sold 3 million Prime memberships in the week before Christmas, as customers flocked to get f...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Oil prices started the last week of the year by falling hard after a brief rally. Crude declined more than 3% Monday to trade below $37 a barrel. Crude had topped $38 per barrel...

TOKYO — (CNN) It isn’t every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in central Japan were treated to a rare sight...

RAMADI — (CNN) Iraqi troops have retaken the city of Ramadi from ISIS, the country’s military said. Troops raised the Iraqi flag on top of the government compound in central Ramadi, milita...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Six months out from Donald Trump’s foray into American politics, the national media is finally coming to terms with a hard truth: It’s Trump’s world, and they&...

VATICAN CITY — (CNN) Pope Francis on Christmas Day called for peace in the Holy Land and elsewhere throughout the world. “Where God is born, peace is born,” the Pope said. “And...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) An officer-involved shooting inside a mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday left one person dead, according to police. The man who died was armed, police said. No off...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Robert Downey Jr., who spent time in prison in the late 1990s for drug convictions, received a full and unconditional pardon on Thursday from California Gov. Jerry Brown. The ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Ted Cruz, staring at hundreds of thousands of dollars in negative advertisements against him in Iowa that show only signs of growing, is battling to keep pace there with his m...