Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Democrats Request Hatch Act Probe Of Republican Convention
WASHINGTON - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into what they call repeated violations of the federal Hatch Act by members of the Trump administration during last...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

Biden Meets Jacob Blake’s Family To Start Wisconsin Trip
KENOSHA, Wis. - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden began a visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin on Thursday by meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black man whose shooting by a ...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

Pelosi, Mnuchin Agree On Plan To Avoid Government Shutdown
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration have informally agreed to keep a stopgap government-wide funding bill - needed to avert a shutdown at the end of this month - free ...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

White House Seeking Volunteers For Christmas Decorating
WASHINGTON - The holidays must go on, even with a pandemic and a heated presidential election. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are opening the White House to the public for Christm...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

Worker says he was fired from shipyard for wearing Trump hat
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A Virginia man says he was fired from his job at a shipyard for refusing to remove a hat supporting President Donald Trump. The Virginian-Pilot reports Dave Sunderland, 55, wa...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

Jobless Claims Fall To 881,000
WASHINGTON - The number of laid-off Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a still-elevated 881,000 last week, evidence that the viral pandemic keeps forcing many businesses to slash job...
Syndicated Author Sep 03, 2020

Florida Man Charged with attacking officer escorting Sen. Rand Paul from White House
Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– The US Attorney’s office for the District has charged Brennen Sermon, 27 of Orlando Florida with assault for an attack on a DC police officer following the ...
Syndicated Author Sep 02, 2020

Pelosi Says Hair Salon Should Apologize For ‘Set-Up’ Visit
SAN FRANCISCO - A testy Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she takes responsibility for trusting the word of a San Francisco hair salon that it was OK to come in for a solo visit - even though the city still...
Syndicated Author Sep 02, 2020

House Subpoenas Embattled Postal Service Leader Over Delays
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for records about the widespread mail delivery delays that have pulled the Postal Service into ...
Syndicated Author Sep 02, 2020

Soldier To Receive Medal Of Honor For Iraq Hostage Rescue
DELRAY BEACH, FL - An American soldier who helped rescue about 70 hostages set to be executed by Islamic State militants in Iraq has been approved to receive the Medal of Honor for actions during a da...
Syndicated Author Sep 02, 2020
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