Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

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...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women's fund spearheaded by his daughter Ivanka Trump.The White House said the budget, expected to be ...

MADRID - Marches and protests are held Friday across the globe to mark International Women's Day under the slogan #BalanceforBetter, with calls for a more gender-balanced world.The day, sponsored by t...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis denounced the "depraved hatred" behind a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in parts of the world and said interfaith dialogue can help counter it.Francis met Friday with a deleg...

WASHINGTON - Hiring tumbled in February, with U.S. employers adding just 20,000 jobs, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a half.The sharp slowdown in hiring, which might have been worsened...