Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

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(AP) - President Donald Trump says his pick for the Federal Reserve board, conservative commentator Stephen Moore, has withdrawn from contention.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...

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Justice Department says the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is trying to place "unprecedented and unnecessary" conditions on the attorney general. William Barr was sched...

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) – Actor Rick Schroder has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence for the second time in a month. Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Juanita Navarro says deput...

WASHINGTON - Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has told Congress that the military needs to return to its traditional missions, and he wants to know how much longer troops will be needed at th...

PHOENIX - An embattled Phoenix long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth has received an Arizona license to operate, the latest step in an effort to overhaul ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - The New York state official overseeing investigations of President Donald Trump or entities linked to him says his frequent criticism of the media undermines the public's trust in a fre...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that no rate hikes are likely in coming months amid signs of renewed economic health but unusually low infl...