Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Disneyland reopened Friday and New York's mayor predicted the big city will be up and running again at full strength by July 1, as the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 closed in o...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will take her effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day to federal court in a lawsuit against the National Parks Servi...

NEW YORK (AP) - An estimated 26.9 million people watched President Joe Biden's first address to Congress across 16 television networks, the smallest audience for the yearly presidential speech since a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The woman who returned Lady Gaga's stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and shooting of the music superstar's dog walker, Los Angeles p...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - President Joe Biden was a first-term Delaware senator in 1976 when he endorsed an upstart former Southern governor for the presidency over the party's Northern establishment players...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday updated the state's mask mandate to align it with newly relaxed guidelines issued earlier this week by the federal government.For most of t...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis set a 40-euro ($48) gift cap for all Vatican employees Thursday and issued a new law requiring Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically report on their compliance with c...

NEW YORK (AP/WMAL) - English rock band Genesis is returning to the U.S. for their first tour in 14 years. Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford announced The Last Domino? Tour on Thursday, whic...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators pledged again Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes, this time under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor popular among Black sm...

BOONE, N.C. (AP) - Two deputies were killed and three other people including a suspected gunman were found dead after a lengthy standoff in North Carolina, a sheriff's office said Thursday. The Wataug...