Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Two women who were being transported to a mental health facility drowned when a sheriff's department van was swept away in rising South Carolina floodwaters, according to authori...

DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban announced Wednesday he will contribute $10 million to help further the cause of women in sports and raise awareness about domestic violence after an inv...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge in Connecticut has dismissed a lawsuit by 60 former professional wrestlers, many of them stars in the 1980s and 1990s, who claimed World Wrestling Entertainment ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - U2 frontman Bono has described Pope Francis as being "aghast" about sex abuse in the Catholic Church. The Irish singer met privately with Francis on Wednesday at the Vatican hotel ...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – 4:16 p.m. D.C. fire is on the scene of a two alarm fire at the Arthur Capper Senior community on 5th Street Southeast near Navy Yard. There’s he...

(CNN) — Wanda Barzee, one of two people who abducted 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002, was released from a Utah prison Wednesday. Barzee was serving a 15-year sentence when the Utah Board of ...

NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) - Handing out hot dogs, hugs and comforting words, President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to soothe those who suffered losses in Hurricane Florence, declaring that "America grieve...

Maria Leaf WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)– Singer John Legend is part of a new video campaign rallying voters to call their senators in an effort to prevent Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh fro...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A longtime friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he has "no memory" of a decades-old sexual assault that a woman is accusing Kavanaugh of committing. In a statement gi...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said in Iowa Tuesday he's not ruling out a 2020 Democratic campaign for president, as he took his national campaign to promote Democratic candid...