Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Van Halen’s California hometown plans memorial to guitarist
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...
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

NXIVM Head Keith Raniere Sentenced To 120 Years In Prison
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...
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

Still Hampered By Virus, US Casinos Want Aid In Recovering
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...
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Wisconsin To Get Early Votes In
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...
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

Social Media CEOs To Face Grilling From Republican Senators
WASHINGTON (AP) - Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias....
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

Gulf Coast Braces, Again, For Hurricane As Zeta Takes Aim
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday after Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula on a track that forecaste...
Syndicated Author Oct 27, 2020

Stocks Have Their Worst Day In A Month As Virus Cases Surge
U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday as a troubling increase in coronavirus counts put investors in a selling mood. The skid came as doubts mount on Wall Street that Washington will come through with more ...
Syndicated Author Oct 26, 2020

Susan B. Anthony’s Headstone Gets Shield From Voter Stickers
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - People putting their "I Voted" stickers on women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony's headstone will see something new this year: a plastic cover.Her headstone, in a cemetery in...
Syndicated Author Oct 26, 2020

Lt. Col. Vindman writing memoir, ‘Here, Right Matters’
NEW YORK (AP) - Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the national security aide who offered key testimony during the impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump and later accused the president of running...
Syndicated Author Oct 26, 2020

Pence Meets Supporters In Northern Minnesota
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence has met a few hundred supporters on an airport tarmac for a campaign rally in northern Minnesota's Iron range.The vice president made the campaign stop in M...
Syndicated Author Oct 26, 2020
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