Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Pot users welcome: Amazon won’t test jobseekers for cannabis
NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon said Tuesday that it will stop testing job seekers for marijuana. The company, the second-largest private employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, is making the change as states leg...
Syndicated Author Jun 02, 2021

Largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The world's largest meat processing company has resumed most production after a weekend cyberattack, but experts say the vulnerabilities exposed by this attack and others ar...
Syndicated Author Jun 02, 2021

Medina Spirit drug test confirmed; Derby win in jeopardy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Bob Baffert's lawyer said Wednesday that a split-sample test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit came back positive for the presence of the steroid betamethasone, which could...
Syndicated Author Jun 02, 2021

Free beer is latest vaccine incentive for Biden ‘month of action’
WASHINGTON (AP) - Free beer is the latest White House-backed incentive for Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as President Joe Biden is announcing a "month of action" Wednesday to get more shot...
Syndicated Author Jun 02, 2021

Woman donates kidney to hubby’s ex-wife days after wedding
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Ten years after their first date, Debby Neal-Strickland put on a cream-colored lace gown and married her longtime sweetheart at their Florida church. Two days later, she p...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021

Biden calls out 2 Democratic lawmakers for blocking agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden called out two fellow Democrats on Tuesday in explaining why he hasn't enacted some of the most ambitious elements of his agenda, noting that slim majorities in t...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021

US formally ends policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.A seven-page mem...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021

Meat producer ransomware attack disrupts global production
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A ransomware attack on the world's largest meat processing company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipelin...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021

Florida governor OKs limits on transgender student athletes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's Republican governor signed a bill Tuesday barring transgender females from playing on public school teams intended for student-athletes born as girls, plunging the s...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021

Biden honors forgotten victims of Tulsa race massacre
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - President Joe Biden is leading Tuesday's remembrance of one of the nation's darkest - and largely forgotten - moments of racial violence, marking the 100th anniversary of the destr...
Syndicated Author Jun 01, 2021
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