Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

The Memorial Day weekend has produced the two busiest days for U.S. air travel since early March 2020. About 1.96 million people passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Friday, and 1.90 mi...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd's death is scheduled to make an initial appearance Tuesday in federal court to face charges alleging he vio...

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) - A suburban Boston police officer who became a national hero in 2013 when he tackled one of the Boston Marathon bombers retired from the only job he says he ever wanted. Waterto...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is leaving in place a $2 billion verdict in favor of women who claim they developed ovarian cancer from using Johnson & Johnson talc products. The justices did ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Kids at summer camps can skip wearing masks outdoors, with some exceptions, federal health officials said Friday.Children who aren't fully vaccinated should still wear masks outside wh...

BOSTON (AP) - The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week u...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A jury found a farm laborer guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018.The 12-member jury unan...

WASHINGTON (AP/WMAL) - Senate Republicans on Friday blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.The Senate vote was 54-35 - short of the 60 votes needed to con...

A Wayne Gretzky rookie card has sold for a record $3.75 million at auction. Heritage Auctions of Dallas said Thursday the 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky card was in "gem mint" condition and went to an anonym...

Facebook says it will no longer remove claims that COVID-19 is human-made or manufactured "in light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts...