Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

CHICAGO - Chicago police have opened a hate crime investigation after a man the department identified as a 36-year-old cast member of the television show "Empire" alleged he was physically attacked by...

BRUMADINHO, Brazil - Brazilian authorities arrested five people Tuesday in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people and left nearly 300 missing as it plastered part of a small cit...

BEIJING - China called on the U.S. government on Tuesday to "stop the unreasonable crackdown" on Huawei after the U.S. stepped up pressure on the tech giant by indicting it on charges of stealing tech...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is filing charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei.A 13-count indictment was unsealed Monday in New York charging Huawei, two of its affiliates and a top exec...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida researchers say far fewer shark bites were reported worldwide last year.According to the university's International Shark Attack File, 66 bites were documente...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Insurance claims from California's deadly November 2018 wildfires have topped $11.4 billion, making the series of fires one of the most expensive in state history, officials said ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on the state-owned oil company of Venezuela, a potentially critical economic move aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolas Madur...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, William Barr, says Vice President Mike Pence is among the officials with whom he's discussed the special counsel's Russia's investigati...

Long before the claim of the world's first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who objected to the experiment yet remained an adv...

SEATTLE - For a businessman who grew a small coffee roaster into an inescapable global chain, who ensured that even his part-time workers had benefits and who has given about $150,000 to Democratic ca...