Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

NEW YORK - Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress and singer who won critical acclaim as the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series as "Julia," has died. She was 84. Carr...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday the White House is preparing a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally objecting to the Democrats' impeachment inquiry without an official vote. I...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is adding an abortion case to its busy election-year docket, agreeing to take up a Louisiana law that could leave the state with just one clinic. The justices won't hear...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added a modest 136,000 jobs in September, enough to help lower the unemployment rate to a new five-decade low of 3.5%. The figures show that hiring has slowed this year as ...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – The next home game for the Nationals in this series will be on Sunday, and there’s good news if you plan on taking Metro to the ballpark. Metro wi...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -MGM Resorts International says a legal settlement with victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history is a "major step."Chairman and CEO Jim Murren said in a statement T...

DALLAS (AP) - The brother of a black man who was shot dead by a white Dallas police officer who said she mistook the victim's apartment for her own forgave and embraced her Wednesday as she sobbed aft...

CHICAGO - A Chicago judge could decide this week whether the special prosecutor investigating possible conflicts of interest in Jussie Smollett's criminal case has a conflict himself, the latest twist...

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that supervised injection sites designed to prevent overdoses would not violate federal drug laws, potentially giving advocates in Philadelphia and elsew...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is planning to expand the collection of DNA from migrants who cross U.S. borders, and to include the information in a massive criminal database operated by the FB...