Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers dramatically stepped up their hiring in December, adding 312,000 jobs in an encouraging display of strength for an economy in the midst of a trade war, slowing global growt...

NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Thursday on Wall Street, with technology companies suffering their worst loss in seven years, after Apple reported that iPhone sales in China are slumping. The rare warning o...

More than a decade after Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams made moviegoers believe in love again, “The Notebook” is coming to Broadway. Singer Ingrid Michaelson and “This Is Us” ...

DETROIT - As a staff sergeant with the Marines in Iraq, Paul Whelan enjoyed fine cigars and showed an affinity for Russia - even spending two weeks of military leave in Moscow and St. Petersburg inste...

NEW YORK (AP) - The roller-coaster ride on Wall Street resumed on Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year, as stocks plunged early on, then slowly recovered and finished with a slight gain. T...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple warns that disappointing iPhone sales will cause a significant drop in its revenue over the crucial holiday season compared to earlier projections. CEO Tim Cook made t...

LAUREL, Md. - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday the partial government shutdown will last "as long as it takes" as closures entered a 12th day over his demands for billions of dollars from Congress...

MODESTO, Calif. - A Mexican national was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a California police officer last week, prosecutors said. Gustavo Perez Arriaga was expected to be arraig...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The race to legalize sports betting is on now that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed it in all 50 states, but will it provide enough extra tax revenue to make much of a differen...