Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

LONDON - An exit poll in Britain's election projected Thursday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party likely will win a majority of seats in Parliament, an outcome that would allow Joh...

NEW YORK - The death toll in the vaping illness outbreak has topped 50, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The 52 deaths in 26 states are among the 2,409 hospitalized cases that have been reported a...

WASHINGTON - Senior lawmakers announced a tentative agreement Thursday on an almost $1.4 trillion government-wide spending bill that would stave off a federal shutdown next weekend and split the diffe...

WASHINGTON - The Defense Department's internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job.The Pentag...

New York - The Federal Communications Commission is setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline.Once it's implemented, people will just need to dial 988 to seek help, sim...

WASHINGTON - Ten former NFL players have been charged with defrauding the league's health care benefit program, the Justice Department said Thursday.They include five former players on the Washington ...

NEW YORK - A tentative $25 million settlement revealed Wednesday to end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Harvey Weinstein and his former film studio's board was praised by a plai...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The two killers who stormed a kosher market in Jersey City had apparently been followers of the Black Hebrew Israelites - a fringe group whose members have been known to rail again...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - One of South Carolina's most liberal lawmakers and one of its most conservative are joining together to revive the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The 1970s proposal ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is considering several options to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, including one that would shift to a narrower counter-terrorism mission, the top U.S. military of...