Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

CHICAGO - Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates weren't a fluke.Obesity rates d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook already rules daily communication for more than two billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.The social network unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday t...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the country illegally on the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid.In a pair of tweets Monday night, ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - U.S. officials say the Pentagon is sending about 1,000 additional American troops to the Middle East, as commanders try to bolster security for forces and allies in the region from...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A 15-year-old Kansas boy got a large knife to the face, and doctors say he's extremely lucky. Jimmy Russell said her son, Eli Gregg, was playing Thursday evening outside of their h...

BOSTON - A Parkland school shooting survivor says Harvard University revoked his acceptance over racist comments he made online and in text messages about two years ago. Kyle Kashuv says the Ivy Leagu...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is easing previously announced cuts in hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Central American nations of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. But it says ...

DALLAS - A masked gunman opened fire Monday on a federal courthouse in downtown Dallas before being fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with federal officers, witnesses and authorities said. Brian ...

NEW YORK - Mastercard will allow transgender people to use their chosen names on credit cards in an effort to combat discrimination at the cash register. That means that the name on the credit card ow...

ROCKVILLE, Md. - A wealthy stock trader was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his conviction in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker beneat...