Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

 5:00 EST PM UPDATE: DUPONT, Wash. (AP) — Critical safety technology designed to automatically slow or stop trains that are going too fast was not working on a section of track outside of S...

 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three decades. The bill now goes to the Senate for an expected vote Tuesday eve...

 NORWALK, Conn. (AP) – Parents of students at a Connecticut high school say they were upset when Ivanka Trump made an unannounced visit.Some parents pulled their children from class on Mond...

 (CNN) — There were people still sleeping on the floor the day after a power outage shut down operations at the Atlanta airport, but long ticket and security lines were moving slowly as nor...

  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) – Dunkin’ Donuts is brewing more than coffee for the shortest and darkest day of the year. The Canton, Massachusets-based coffee and doughnut chain said Monday...

  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The FBI is investigating after a 70-year-old Oklahoma woman said said she was duped out of more than $225,000 by someone posing online as a U.S. Army general statione...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence is postponing his trip to Egypt and Israel until the middle of January, citing an upcoming vote in the Senate to overhaul the nation’s ta...

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says she vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding that President Donald Trump rescind his declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins says she’ll vote for her party’s tax bill this week. The moderate’s support means all voting GOP senators are expec...

  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – A jury in suburban Washington has convicted the first police officer charged in the United States with attempting to support the Islamic State. The U.S. Attorney...