Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Capitals’ Viewing Party Tickets Sell Out In Minutes
Bryan Taylor WMAL.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Washington Capitals released tickets for their viewing party at Capital One Arena for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. In a matter of minutes,...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

Trump Commutes Sentence For Kardashian-Backed Drug Offender
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is commuting the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman convicted of drug offenses whose cause was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West. T...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

Maker Of Jack Daniels Worried About Impact Of Trade War
WASHINGTON — The maker of Jack Daniel’s says tariffs are making it difficult to plan for the future. The company, Brown-Forman, reported strong revenue and profit growth for the fiscal yea...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

ACLU Sues Over Plans For Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyers sued the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday to try to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Manhattan federal court lawsuit on behalf of i...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

Obama-era License Aimed To Let Iran Convert Money In Dollars, According To Investigation Report
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access - albeit briefly - to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite r...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

IHOP Says It’s Changing Name To IHOb. Huh?
UNDATED – IHOP stands for International House of Pancakes. The chain has been around for 60 years and has used the IHOP acronym since 1973. So what in the name of a Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fr...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

China’s Huawei Says It Hasn’t Collected Facebook User Data
BEIJING - Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei said Wednesday it has never collected or stored Facebook user data, after the social media giant acknowledged it shared such data with Huawei and other manu...
Syndicated Author Jun 06, 2018

Press Aide Who Mocked McCain Is Out At The White House
WASHINGTON — Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain’s health, was quietly let go Tuesday nearly a month after maki...
Syndicated Author Jun 05, 2018

Ex-Gov. Blagojevich Officially Asks Trump To Commute His Prison Sentence
CHICAGO- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is officially asking President Donald Trump to commute his prison sentence, filing the clemency paperwork on Tuesday, a spokesman for Blagojevich’s ...
Syndicated Author Jun 05, 2018

Miss America Drops Swimsuit Portion And Won’t Judge On Looks
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - When the Miss America pageant started in 1921, having young women parade around in bathing suits seemed like a great way to get tourists to come to the Atlantic City Boardwalk af...
Syndicated Author Jun 05, 2018
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