Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Trump Laments G-7 Move From Doral After Bipartisan Pushback
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out Monday at critics who prompted him to move next year's Group of Seven summit from his private golf club in Florida, claiming he would have hosted it for ...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

US Public Land Workers Getting Assaulted, Threatened On Job
BILLINGS, Mont. - Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups, a co...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

US May Now Keep Some Troops In Syria To Guard Oil Fields
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. may leave some forces in Syria to secure oil fields and make sure they don't fall into the hands of a resurgent Islamic State, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday, e...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

Facebook Ramps Up Election Security Efforts Ahead Of 2020
With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and democracies around the world. ...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other migrants detained by immigration officials and will add the information to a massive FBI database...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

Tornado Rips Through Dallas; 1 Dead In Arkansas Amid Storms
DALLAS - Crews searched Monday through the rubble of homes and businesses torn apart by a tornado that ripped through the Dallas area the night before, and one person was killed by a falling tree in A...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

Residents Of Northeast Syria City Pelt Departing US Troops
AKCAKALE, Turkey - Angry over the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, residents of a Kurdish-dominated city pelted departing American military vehicles with potatoes Monday as they drove through. Defense Secr...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

Companies Reach $260 Million Deal To Settle Opioids Lawsuit
CLEVELAND - The nation's three dominant drug distributors and a big drugmaker have reached a $260 million deal to settle a lawsuit related to the opioid crisis just as the first federal trial over the...
Syndicated Author Oct 21, 2019

Body of US Rep. Cummings will lie in state at Capitol
BALTIMORE (AP) - The body of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office said in a news releas...
Syndicated Author Oct 20, 2019

Hillary Clinton Implies Gabbard Is Favored By Russia
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hillary Clinton appears to call Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard "the favorite of the Russians" in a recent interview, while also describing 2016 Green Party presiden...
Syndicated Author Oct 18, 2019
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