Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Biden keeps Trump’s record-low cap on refugees
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday stuck with his predecessor's historically low cap of 15,000 refugees for this year and instead moved to accelerate admissions, triggering an outcry from...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

Police ID gunman in FedEx shooting as young male in 20s
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Police scoured a Fedex facility in Indianapolis and interviewed scores of witnesses Friday in search of a motive for the latest mass shooting to rock the U.S., as family members of...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

Kremlin to expel 10 US diplomats in response to US sanctions
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Moscow will order 10 U.S. diplomats to leave Russia in a retaliatory response to the U.S. sanctions.Lavrov also said that Moscow w...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

US setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administratio...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

Coast Guard divers hope to reach 12 missing in capsized ship
PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) - Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized liftboat prepared to enter the overturned vessel on Friday, a rescue effort complicated by daunting technical challeng...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

Police: 8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before apparently taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said,...
Syndicated Author Apr 16, 2021

Study: 2.5 billion T. rex roamed Earth, but not all at once
One Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That's how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the course of a couple million years, a new study find...
Syndicated Author Apr 15, 2021

After union vote, Bezos vows to do better for Amazon workers
NEW YORK (AP) - After a union battle at an Alabama warehouse, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos acknowledged that Amazon has to do better for its workers and vowed to make Amazon a safer place to work. Bezos ...
Syndicated Author Apr 15, 2021

Dow crests 34,000 on more proof that economy is recovering
Wall Street notched more milestones Thursday, as a broad market rally pushed the S&P 500 to an all-time high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed above the 34,000 mark for the first time. ...
Syndicated Author Apr 15, 2021

Former VP Pence undergoes surgery to implant pacemaker
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. His office says that Wednesday's procedure went well and that Pence "is expected to fully recove...
Syndicated Author Apr 15, 2021
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