Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

BAGHDAD - Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, angered over dea...

NEW YORK - Few TV documentary series can boast having a more powerful real world impact than "Surviving R. Kelly." Though allegations of sexual abuse against minors followed R&B superstar R. Kelly...

MIAMI - The pastor of a Miami megachurch that will host President Donald Trump at a rally this week is guaranteeing that parishioners who entered the U.S. illegally won't risk deportation by attending...

MONSEY, N.Y. - A man accused of storming into a rabbi's home and stabbing five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City was raised to embrace tolerance...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – The Navy is proposing construction cutbacks of destroyers and accelerated retirements of cruisers that would delay, or sink, the Navy’s goal of larger fleet.The Defe...

WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) – Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has decided to skip the NHL’s All-Star Weekend for the second year in a row.He told reporters Friday night, “It’s ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Disc jockey Don Imus died Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, after being hospitalized since Christmas Eve, according to a ...

Anyone under 21 can no longer legally buy cigarettes, cigars or any other tobacco products in the U.S. The new law enacted last week by Congress also applies to electronic cigarettes and vaping produc...

Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON– The man behind dozens of Peanuts holiday specials including “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has died. Lee Mendleson lost his battle with Cancer on Christm...

SAN DIEGO - Navy SEALs described their platoon leader, retired Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, as "evil," "toxic" and "perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving," in video footage o...