Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

BOSTON (AP) - Microsoft said it has detected attempts by state-backed Russian and North Korean hackers to steal valuable data from leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers. It said in ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Retailers and carriers are preparing for an online holiday shopping surge that could tax shipping networks and lead to delivery delays.FedEx and UPS are ramping up their holiday hiring...

ATLANTA (AP) - As Georgia counties prepare for a hand tally of the presidential race, the state's top elections official plans to quarantine after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, his off...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Justice Department report has found former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta exercised "poor judgment" in handling an investigation into wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein when he was a t...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Virginia special prosecutor has requested that state police investigate Richmond's $1.8 million contract for the removal of the city's Confederate statues.The statues were taken...

Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski has tested positive for the coronavirus.Lewandowski recently traveled to Pennsylvania to assist Trump's efforts to contest the state's election results. He said Thursda...

BOSTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling clearing Harvard University of discrimination against Asian American applicants. Two judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals i...

LONDON (AP) - Imagine a world where you move around in your own personal sound bubble. You listen to your favorite tunes, play loud computer games, watch a movie or get navigation directions in your c...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New Yorker has fired longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom conference last month. He had already been on suspension and is also on ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis has won reelection to his U.S. Senate seat, confirming that Democrats must now win both runoff races in Georgia in January if they are to sei...