Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

US tightens definition of service animals allowed on planes
The government has decided that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be service animals, and companions used for emotional support don't count. The Transportation Department issued a final rule ...
Syndicated Author Dec 02, 2020

NYC bar owner who defied coronavirus restrictions arrested
NEW YORK (AP) - An owner of a New York City bar that was providing indoor service in defiance of coronavirus restrictions was arrested after a sting in which plainclothes officers went inside and orde...
Syndicated Author Dec 02, 2020

GOP leader McDaniel to run for 3rd term with Trump’s backing
Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, is launching her bid for a third two-year term heading the GOP's governing organization after the party's stronger-than-anticipated showin...
Syndicated Author Dec 02, 2020

Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their con...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

Cosby’s sex assault conviction goes before PA’s high-level court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, give...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday blasted the push for free college as a "socialist takeover of higher education" that could damage the nation's economy. Speaking at an online conference host...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

Visitor: Monolith toppled by group who said ‘leave no trace’
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert - though it's no longer...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

US panel to decide who should get the first COVID-19 shots
NEW YORK (AP) - An influential government advisory panel convened on Tuesday to answer one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak: Who should be at the front of the line when ...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

Trump files lawsuit challenging Wisconsin election results
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two most Democratic counties, an attempt to overturn Joe...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020

Study: Students falling behind in math during pandemic
A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic's effects on some of the most vulnerable stu...
Syndicated Author Dec 01, 2020
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