Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

 NEW YORK (AP) – A payment technology company says shoppers spent strongly to start the holiday season and then cooled off, but the overall pace is still stronger than a year ago.First Data...

 Amanda EngelWMAL.COMWASHINGTON (WMAL) — Melania Trump wished her Twitter followers a “Merry Christmas” with the official White House Christmas portrait for 2017.Merry Christmas...

  Amanda Engel WMAL.COM WASHINGTON (WMAL) — ABC has fired celebrity chef Mario Batali, according to a statement released on The Chew’s Facebook page. Batali had been accused of sexual...

  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The wife of a Republican lawmaker in Kentucky who killed himself after accusations he sexually assaulted a teenage girl says she will seek to replace him in the stat...

    (CNN) — Roy Moore continues to refuse to concede the Alabama special election, saying in a video that his campaign is waiting for ballots to be certified. “In this race, we h...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s not leaving Congress anytime soon. The Wisconsin Republican was asked Thursday about two published reports suggesting he might le...

  2:40 PM UPDATE: NEW YORK (AP) — State attorneys general are now threatening lawsuits against the federal government’s repeal of “net neutrality” rules. New York’s ...

  WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Republicans say that Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold won’t seek re-election next year. The lawmaker is under pressure from sexual misconduct allegations that s...

  BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Rupert Murdoch says selling much of the 21st Century Fox entertainment businesses to Disney allows what remains of his family’s business to focus on American ...

 (CNN) — Omarosa Manigault Newman, the White House aide whose resignation was announced on Wednesday, denied reports that she left the White House after a dramatic confrontation with White ...