Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

WASHINGTON (AP) - Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years - a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive chan...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - More than half of the United States now offers legal sports betting, just three years after it was allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court.When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dall...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Florida judge has ruled the state cannot enforce its ban on mask mandates in public schools while an appeals court sorts out whether the ban is legal. Leon County Circuit Judg...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - New Orleans lifted a nightly curfew Wednesday as the city moved closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Taliban on Wednesday that any legitimacy or support "will have to be earned" after Afghanistan's new rulers announced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Donald Trump has chosen a favored candidate in his bid to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most vocal Republican critics. Trump is planning to endorse Wyoming atto...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila - a state on the Texas border - ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana, most of them outside New Orleans, still didn't have power Tuesday and more than half of the gas stations in two major cit...

WASHINGTON (AP) - American veterans groups and others are pleading for U.S. and Taliban action on a weeklong standoff that has left hundreds of would-be evacuees from Afghanistan desperate to board wa...

The White House is asking Congress to approve an additional $24 billion in spending to handle the costs of Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters, as well as $6.4 billion for the resettlement of ev...