Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

NEW YORK - After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen - even if it means only a few titles on the marquee and showings limited to as little...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said Wednesday as he announced the first steps in what he said would be t...

NEW YORK - HBO Max has temporarily removed "Gone With the Wind" from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the Civil W...

WASHINGTON–Members of the D.C. National Guard have tested positive for COVID-19 in the wake of the massive protests across the city last week over the death of George Floyd. Guard spokeswoman Lt...

ATLANTA - Voters waited as long as five hours to cast ballots in some Georgia precincts on Tuesday amid reports of voting machine malfunctions and high turnout in a state that President Donald Trump a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bonnie Pointer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, has died.Publicist Roger Neal says Pointer died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles on Monday. She was 69.It was Bonnie Po...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – The kind of chokehold that led to the death of George Floyd in police custody could soon be completely outlawed in the District. D.C. police are only al...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start arms control talks this month as the only remaining treaty between the two largest nuclear powers is poised to expire in less than a year, Marshal...

LONDON - Attorneys representing Britain's Prince Andrew say they've been assured by the U.S. Department of Justice that he is not a target in the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...

MINNEAPOLIS - A judge on Monday set $1 million bail for a Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd's death. Derek Chauvin, 44, said almost nothing during an 11-minu...