Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Macy’s Plans Smaller But Camera-Ready For Thanksgiving Parade
NEW YORK - A Macy's Thanksgiving parade reimagined for the coronavirus pandemic will feature floats, performers and giant balloons along a one-block stretch of 34th Street in front of the retailer's f...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

Hurricane Sally Threatens Gulf Coast With A Slow Drenching
NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Sally, one of a record-tying five storms churning simultaneously in the Atlantic, closed in on the Louisiana-Mississippi coast Monday with rapidly strengthening winds of at lea...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

Biden Assembles Legal Team Ahead Of 2020 Election
WASHINGTON - Democrat Joe Biden is assembling a team of top lawyers in anticipation of court challenges to the election process that could ultimately determine who wins the race for the White House. B...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

US Halts Imports From China’s Uighur Region For Forced Labor
WASHINGTON - The U.S. on Monday blocked imports from four companies and a manufacturing facility in northwestern China suspected of using forced labor from people detained as part of a sweeping crackd...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

Anti-Inflammatory Drug May Shorten COVID-19 Recovery Time
A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory medicine to a drug already widely used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients shortens their time to recovery by an additional day. Eli Lilly announced...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

WATCH: Netflix delves into the ‘human side’ of Challenger disaster
NEW YORK (AP) – Last year brought us the powerful TV miniseries “Chernobyl.” Now from Netflix comes a look at another disaster from 1986 – the Challenger space shuttle disaster...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

Amazon To Hire 100,000 To Keep Up With Online Shopping Surge
NEW YORK - Amazon will hire another 100,000 people to keep up with a surge of online orders.The company said Monday that the new hires will help pack, ship or sort orders, working in part-time and ful...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

TikTok Owner Picks Oracle Over Microsoft As US Tech Partner
Oracle said Monday that the Chinese owner of TikTok has picked the U.S. company to be its "trusted technology provider," beating out rival Microsoft in a deal that could help keep the popular video-sh...
Syndicated Author Sep 14, 2020

Pence drops plan to go to fundraiser hosted by QAnon backers
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence has canceled plans to attend a Trump campaign fundraiser in Montana following revelations that the event's hosts had expressed support for the QAnon co...
Syndicated Author Sep 12, 2020

Oxford, AstraZeneca to resume coronavirus vaccine trial
LONDON (AP) - Oxford University says trials of a coronavirus vaccine that it is developing with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will resume, days after being paused due to a reported side-effect in...
Syndicated Author Sep 12, 2020
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