Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

  WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration is announcing a major gang sweep, with the arrest of more than 200 members of the violent street gang MS-13. Officials from the Department of Ho...

  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A spokesman says former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is in critical condition after undergoing an emergency heart procedure at a hospital in Austin, Tex...

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying “to steal this election” by calling for him to step down am...

  WASHIGNTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee has severed its fundraising ties to Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. A Federal Election Commission filing late Tuesday shows that th...

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Paul Ryan has announced that the House will adopt a policy requiring all members of Congress and their staffs to undergo training to prevent sexual harassment.The...

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he is unfamiliar with an FBI report about black “extremists” that is alarming some lawmakers.The 12-page FBI intelligence ...

 Caroline TuckerWMAL.comROCKVILLE (WMAL) – The Montgomery County School Board received at least 2,000 comments about proposals for next year’s school calendar. There were four proposa...

Steve BurnsWMAL.comWASHINGTON – (WMAL) At a hearing Tuesday to review the House’s sexual harassment training and reporting practices, two D.C.-area representatives gave clear indications t...

 5:02 PM UPDATE: RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — The assistant sheriff in Northern California says a gunman opened fire “without provocation” in a rural town, killing four people and w...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL)– Outgoing Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has been named as one of Governing Magazine’s Public Officials of the Year.McAuliffe tells the magazine that...