Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Transgender girls would be banned from participating in female sports teams in high school or college in two bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in Ohio, which became the la...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the Black man's const...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Fans of the sweet, melodic sounds of New Orleans' legendary vocalist Aaron Neville won't have many opportunities to hear him live from now on. In posts Tuesday on his official websi...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster the protection of American and coalition troops making a final withdrawal from Afghanistan as Taliban insurgent...

The New York Rangers in less than 72 hours lost their best player to injury, fired their president and general manager, and had another player suspended. They are also out a quarter-million dollars in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military may continue to train Afghan security forces, but do it in other countries after American forces leave Afghanistan, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday, cal...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden will push the case for his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan in the reliably Republican state of Louisiana - directly challenging GOP lawmakers who say that low t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Elise Stefanik stated her case Thursday for replacing Rep. Liz Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican leader, implicitly lambasting Cheney's battles with former President Donald T...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping elections bill into law Thursday that he and other Republicans said would place guardrails against fraud, even as they acknowledged...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 498,000, the lowest point since the viral pandemic struck 14 months ago and a sign of the job market's growing stre...