Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - App-based companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash have dodged a potentially devastating blow to their industry by carving out an exemption for themselves from a California law th...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offenses, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetam...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California voters have rejected an attempt to reinstate affirmative action programs in public hiring, contracting and college admissions, keeping a 1996 ban on the government gran...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The battle for control of the Senate tightened Tuesday after Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama, and Republicans held their own in high-...

ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Democrat Raphael Warnock are headed to a Jan. 5 runoff in the special election for Loeffler's U.S. Senate seat. They're the top two finishe...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Republicans have launched an all-out offensive in deep-red Oklahoma to win back the state's lone Democrat-held congressional seat, blitzing the airwaves with television and radio ...

In North Carolina, an armed man loitering at a polling site on Election Day has been arrested and charged with trespassing.Thirty-six-year-old Justin Dunn was legally carrying a firearm but loitered a...

WMAL NewsWASHINGTON – Fox News is reporting that the United States Postal Service has failed to meet a deadline set by a U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday to conduct a sweep of its facilities...

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (AP) - Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to "stay safe and stay home" - an ominous warning that election...