Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris bemoaned the influence of the powerful and connected elite last Tuesday when she called on top Justice Department officials to recuse themselves from any matter related to J...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is requiring products "Made in America" to be made using more American components if they are to be used by the government. Trump says American-made products used f...

NEW YORK - Financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain behind bars for now as a federal judge mulls whether to grant bail on charges he sexually abused underage girls. The judge said Monday he needed more t...

Former boxing champion Pernell Whitaker has died after he was hit by a car in Virginia. He was 55. Police in Virginia Beach on Monday say Whitaker was a pedestrian when struck by the car Sunday night....

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers to resume broad use of a pesticide over objections from beekeepers, citing private chemical industry studies that the agency says sh...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. edged closer to crisis Friday with NATO ally Turkey, which began receiving components of a Russian-made air defense system in defiance of Trump administration warnings that the d...

WASHINGTON - The House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill ensuring that a victims compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.The 402-12 vote sends the bill to the Senate,...

CHICAGO - R. Kelly was arrested on federal charges that accuse him and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with the singer and paying them to co...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting support from an unlikely source - the president - in her fight with freshmen Democrats.Republican Donald Trump is defending top Democrat Pelosi and s...

NEW ORLEANS - Building toward hurricane strength, Tropical Storm Barry began hitting Louisiana with wind and rain Friday as it closed in what could be a long, slow - and epic - drenching that could tr...