Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

MINNEAPOLIS - The city of Minneapolis will pay $20 million to the family of an unarmed woman fatally shot by a police officer when she approached his squad car after calling 911 to report a possible c...

CINCINNATI - A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cinc...

WASHINGTON - Advancing his anti-abortion agenda, President Donald Trump moved Thursday to protect health care workers who object to procedures like abortion on moral or religious grounds. Trump chose ...

WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress if he does not comply with a new Monday deadline for special counsel Robert Muel...

KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometers (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy might slow this year and now anticipate strong customer...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films, has died. Mayhew’s family said in a statement Thursday that he died at his home in Texas o...

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday failed to overturn President Donald Trump's veto of legislation that would have ended U.S. military assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen against Ir...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) – The Trump administration is opening two new tent facilities to increase the Border Patrol’s capacity to hold migrant families. The tents in El Paso and in the Rio Gra...

 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says his pick for the Federal Reserve board, conservative commentator Stephen Moore, has withdrawn from contention. The decision comes amid controversy o...