Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal for next year would run a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit despite a raft of new tax increases on corporations and high-inco...

After a year of coronavirus lockdowns, the start of summer beckons with vacation plans made possible by relaxed COVID-19 restrictions. But a severe worker shortage brings a warning for travelers: Expe...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to 406,000, a new pandemic low and more evidence that the job market is strengthening as the virus wanes and e...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal Thursday that would tap unused coronavirus aid, a counteroffer to President Joe Biden's more sweeping plan as the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is refocusing a long-standing violent crime initiative amid a string of violence and mass shootings across the U.S. that includes embedding federal agents with...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - If he's not airborne, there's a good chance you will find 97-year-old John Billings at his home airport in Luray, Virginia.A recent heart attack prevents him, for now, from pi...