Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

BEIJING - China expanded its lockdown against the deadly new virus to an unprecedented 36 million people and rushed to build a prefabricated, 1,000-bed hospital for victims Friday as the outbreak cast...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did because it lacked “insufficient pre...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing "existential danger" fro...

CHICAGO (AP) - An error in Illinois' new automatic voter registration system led to a possible 545 non-U.S. citizens being registered to vote, 15 of whom cast ballots, state officials publicly acknowl...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Jim Lehrer, the longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour passed away in his sleep at home this morning. He was 85 years old.Lehrer anchored the show until his retirement...

Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– President Trump will make history on Friday when he becomes the first Commander-in-Chief to attend the March For Life along the National Mall. See you on Friday&#...

NEW YORK - The head of Hallmark's media business is leaving the company after 11 years, just a month after its flagship Hallmark Channel faced an outcry over a decision to pull an ad with a lesbian co...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is coming out with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting "birth tourism," in which women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children can have a covete...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. would soon be imposing visa restrictions on more countries - though it's not clear yet how many nations will be affected by his expansion of...

GREENBELT, Md. - A Virginia National Guard sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months of supervised probation for stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administr...