Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

ATLANTA (AP) - Election officials across Georgia are staring down a Wednesday deadline to complete a hand tally of the presidential race in the state.The hand recount of nearly 5 million votes stems f...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. scho...

After nearly two years and a pair of deadly crashes, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Boeing's 737 Max for flight. The nation's air safety agency announced the move early Wednesday...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Donald Trump's campaign has paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic Wisconsin counties, saying Wednesday that they were the sight of the "worst irregular...

Pfizer said Wednesday that new test results show its coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective, is safe and also protects older people most at risk of dying - the last data needed to seek emergency use of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats nominated Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday as the speaker to lead them, but she'd be guiding a smaller and ideologically divided majority as she tries shepherding his agenda...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator and third in the line of presidential succession, said Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. Grass...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nomination of Judy Shelton, President Donald Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve, is stalled in the Senate after Kamala Harris returned to the chamber to cast a key vote in a ta...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Four rockets struck inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, Iraq's military said, wounding at least two people and signaling an end to an informal truce announced by I...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Tuesday announced plans to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the decision fulfills President Donald Trump's pled...