Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A powerful earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to flee buildings and office towers in the country's capital, and setting off quake alert systems.Crowds of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The office of special counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities. The defendants are accused of violating U.S. criminal laws...

  (CNN) — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren defended her claims of Native American heritage and responded to the nickname President Donald Trump uses to refer to her — “P...

 PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) – Getting bidders for the Olympics used to be easy, but no longer. That’s particularly true for the Winter Olympics.Six European cities pulled out of of...

 6:50 PM UPDATE: PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says that 12 of the 17 confirmed deaths in Wednesday’s shooting attack on a high school were found in the school.Broward Count...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is breaking his silence after defending former aide Rob Porter, who was accused by his ex-wives of domestic abuse. Trump says: “I am totally...

  (CNN Money) — What retail apocalypse? There’s one sector where stores are hanging out the “help wanted” signs, rather than “store closing.” Home Depot and Lo...

  NEW YORK (AP) – A law enforcement official says a letter with a white powder sent to Donald Trump Jr. at his mother-in-law’s New York City home read, “You’re an awful pe...

  (CNN) — A second federal judge Tuesday has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U...

  5:30 PM EST UPDATE: CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police chief says a high-ranking member of the department has died after being shot at a state government building downtown. Superintend...