Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Widespread internet outages hit northeast U.S.
Internet users in the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday.Verizon reported a fiber cut in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it's not clear if that issue is responsible for the entire outag...
Syndicated Author Jan 26, 2021

Senate confirms Antony Blinken as 71st secretary of state
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Antony Blinken as America's top diplomat.Senators voted 78-22 to approve Blinken, a longtime Biden confidant, as the nation's 71st secretary of state,...
Syndicated Author Jan 26, 2021

Judge OKs Weinstein bankruptcy plan with $17M for victims
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge has approved a revised Weinstein Co. bankruptcy plan that provides about $35 million for creditors, with roughly half that amount going to women who have accused di...
Syndicated Author Jan 26, 2021

Twitter permanently bans My Pillow CEO
Twitter has permanently banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's account. Twitter said he has continued to perpetuate the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Twitter d...
Syndicated Author Jan 26, 2021

Janet Yellen wins Senate approval as treasury secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Monday approved President Joe Biden's nomination of Janet Yellen to be the nation's 78th treasury secretary, making her the first woman to hold the job in the departmen...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021

John Kerry says US will make up for 4 years of lost action on climate
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The world must take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a global virtual summit Monday, p...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021

Budweiser joins Coke, Pepsi brands in sitting out Super Bowl
NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer called Bud Light, the beer giant isn't advertising its iconic Budweiser brand during the ...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021

Delta plans to return 400 pilots to active flying by summer
ATLANTA (AP) - Delta Air Lines plans to return 400 pilots to regular flying duties by this summer in a sign that it expects travel to increase over the peak vacation season from current, low pandemic ...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021

Effort to put Tubman on $20 bill restarted under Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) - With a change of administrations, it looks like Harriet Tubman is once again headed to the front of the $20 bill. Biden press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Treasury Depart...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021

Watchdog probes if DOJ officials tried to overturn election results
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department's inspector general is launching an investigation to examine whether any former or current department officials "engaged in an improper attempt" to overturn th...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2021
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