Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America. The civ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House coronavirus response, said Tuesday she plans to retire, but is willing to first help Joe Biden's team with its coronavirus response a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday, meeting top leaders during the American troop withdrawal. The Pentagon said Miller met...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Democrat Rita Hart asked the U.S. House on Tuesday to investigate and overturn the race that Iowa says she lost by six votes, arguing that 22 ballots were wrongly excluded and o...

WASHINGTON - The nation's top infectious disease expert estimates that most Americans will have access to the new COVID-19 vaccines by mid-summer. Dr. Anthony Fauci told Good Morning America on Tuesda...

Fearful of sending her two children back to school as the coronavirus pandemic raged in Mississippi, Angela Atkins decided to give virtual learning a chance this fall. Almost immediately, it was a str...

NEW YORK (AP) - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, says he deserves early release from home confinement but federal authorities refuse to credit him for good behavior and hundreds ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A program that has pumped $2.7 billion into healing long-term injuries to the Great Lakes environment has received authorization from Congress to continue another five year...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Breaking with President Donald Trump, outgoing Attorney General William Barr said Monday he saw "no reason" to appoint a special counsel to look into the president's claims of electi...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department announced new charges Monday against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people i...