Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

CHICAGO (AP) – A grand jury in Chicago has indicted “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men in Chicago who...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland's highest court denied a new trial Friday for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial."In a 4-3 opinion, the Court of Appeals agreed with a lo...

PORTLAND, Ore. - An unvaccinated 6-year-old Oregon boy was hospitalized for two months for tetanus and almost died of the bacterial illness after getting a deep laceration on his forehead while playin...

BEAUREGARD, Ala. - Head bowed, President Donald Trump paid respects Friday to the 23 people killed when a powerful tornado roared through a rural Alabama town, observing a moment of silence before whi...

NEW YORK - The longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine "the Snake" Persico, has died at the age of 85. Attorney Benson Weintraub says Persico died on Thursday at the Duke Universit...

LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May tried to pressure U.K. lawmakers Friday to support her Brexit deal, warning that Britain may never leave the European Union if they vote down the agreement next wee...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared Friday that he rejected a personal appeal from his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a pardon, the strongest assertion yet that Cohen may have lied under oat...

WASHINGTON - Former Fox News executive Bill Shine has resigned as White House communications director and has joined President Donald Trump's re-election campaign as a senior adviser. White House pres...

WASHINGTON - Officials say Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has resigned.Wilson was confirmed by the Senate in May 2017, making her President Donald Trump's first service secretary.No reason for Wil...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks.U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manni...