Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

NEW YORK (AP) - Diane di Prima, a poet, activist and teacher who was one of the last surviving members of the Beats and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement, has died at age 86. Di Prima'...

NEW YORK (AP) - The late Whitney Houston has earned her third diamond-certified album, becoming the first Black artist to achieve the feat.The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Lega...

WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) - With next week's election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for alleged anti-conservative bias in the c...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP/WMAL) - A teachers' union in Virginia's largest school district urged its members to call in sick today for a "mental health day" as they ponder how they will respond to a gradual ret...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced he’s signed new laws that will ban no-knock warrants, strengthen the officer decertification process and limit t...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - Microsoft says Iranian hackers have posed as conference organizers in Germany and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break into the email accounts of "high-profile" people with spoofe...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Eddie Van Halen's Southern California hometown will memorialize the late guitar legend, but it's still unclear what form the tribute will take. The Pasadena City Council on Mon...

NEW YORK (AP) - Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood actors, was sentenced to 120 years on Tuesday for turning some adherents into s...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The U.S. casino industry is seeking tax and regulatory relief from the government as it tries to recover from the coronavirus outbreak, which cost states more than $2 billio...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Democrats and Republicans in the battleground state of Wisconsin were pushing Tuesday to get 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots returned by the close of polls on Election Day af...