Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines
Democrats: Fired Watchdog Was Looking Into Saudi Arms Sales
WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats say the State Department watchdog fired by President Donald Trump last week was investigating possible impropriety in a massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia last yea...
May 18, 2020
FBI says it’s found links between Pensacola gunman, al-Qaida
The gunman in a deadly attack at a military base in Pensacola, Florida, last December was meticulous in his planning and had been radicalized overseas for at least five years, U.S. officials said Mond...
May 18, 2020
U.S. Restriction On Chipmakers Deals Critical Blow To Huawei
HONG KONG - The latest U.S. sanctions on tech giant Huawei threaten to devastate the company and escalate a feud with China that could disrupt technology industries worldwide. Huawei Technologies Ltd....
May 18, 2020
China Announces $2 Billion In Virus Help At WHO Assembly
GENEVA - China will provide $2 billion over two years to fight the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout from it, President Xi Jinping said Monday, rallying around the World Health Organizatio...
May 18, 2020
J.C. Penney files for Chapter 11
NEW YORK (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic has pushed troubled department store chain J.C. Penney into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth major retailer to meet that fate. Penney said late Fr...
May 15, 2020
Astrid Kirchherr, photographer of the Beatles, dead at 81
NEW YORK (AP) - Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer who shot some of the earliest and most striking images of the Beatles and helped shape their trend-setting visual style, has died at age 81. S...
May 15, 2020
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities on Tuesday if state and local governments will allow it
NEW YORK (AP) – In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by Commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by The Associated Press, he stressed that the clubs must be "in compliance with any additional pu...
May 15, 2020
Golfer Rory McIlroy Criticizes Trump, Wouldn’t Play Golf With Him Again
Rory McIlroy says he wouldn't play golf again with President Donald Trump and doubts he would even be invited after questioning his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.McIlroy did an hour-plus int...
May 15, 2020
U.S. Layoffs Surged To Record High Of 11.4 Million In March
WASHINGTON - U.S. layoffs soared in March to a record 11.4 million after state and local governments closed restaurants, bars, movie theaters and other nonessential businesses in response to the inten...
May 15, 2020
US Navy Grants First Waiver For Transgender Service Member To Serve
The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve “in their preferred gender” for the first time since the military enacted a transgender ban.“The actin...
May 15, 2020
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