Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

HOUSTON - A spray of flowers covered the closed silver casket of former first lady Barbara Bush in the sanctuary of the Houston church as mourners waited Friday to pay their final respects. People wer...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – President Donald Trump says it’s his great honor and pleasure to give the commencement speech to the U.S. Naval Academy’s 2018 graduating class. The White House...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's police commissioner is apologizing to two black men who were arrested at a Starbucks in the city.Commissioner Richard Ross, who is black, apologized to the two men o...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -A Minnesota prosecutor says Prince thought he was taking Vicodin when he accidentally overdosed on fentanyl.Carver County Attorney Mark Metz detailed a two-year investigation that he...

AUBURN, Mich. (AP) - Pickup trucks bearing Confederate flags have been parking across from a high school in central Michigan, leading some students to counter-protest against racism and bigotry.The Ba...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The largest manufacturer of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, announced Wednesday that it will stop taking orders and shut dow...

 The IRS says its processing systems are fully back up and running after an outage on Tax Day.The agency said that a hardware issue caused an outage of some its processing systems, which frustrat...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors in the Minnesota county where Prince died will announce a decision Thursday on criminal charges following a two-year investigation into the musician's death from an acci...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Bruno Sammartino, professional wrestling's "Living Legend" and one of its longest-reigning champions, has died. Sammartino was 82.Family friend and former wrestling announcer Christo...

WASHINGTON – Americans who waited until the last day to pay their taxes online got an unwelcome surprise: The IRS website to make payments and access other key services is down. The IRS still ex...