Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

NEW YORK (AP) - A huge surge in online shopping during the pandemic has been a savior for retailers, but it comes at a price. Shoppers are expected to return twice as many items as they did during las...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as close to the entire state was under a strict stay-at-ho...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans shot down a Democratic bid on Thursday to pass President Donald Trump's longshot, end-of-session demand for $2,000 direct payments to most Americans as he ponders w...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the co...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland has suspended jury trials until the end of April because coronavirus cases continue to rise in the state.The Baltimore Sun reports that state's chief judge issued the adminis...

NEW YORK (AP) - An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump's campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement.The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to del...

HOUSTON (AP) - A federal judge did not immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing Tuesday on the fate of a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.Duri...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons says it has started to give the coronavirus vaccine to some high-risk inmates but won't say how many inmates have been vaccinated or how it selects thos...

The U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years from 2019 to 2020, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau - a trend that demographers say provides a glimps...