Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

MIAMI (AP) – The White House says President Donald Trump will visit hurricane-stricken Florida on Thursday. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not announce the specific location or locations...

BALTIMORE (AP) – The U.S. Department of Justice won’t bring federal charges against six police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a young black man whose death touc...

CALIFORNIA — J.J. Abrams is going to finish the “Star Wars” trilogy that he started.Abrams, who directed 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” is returning to dire...

WASHINGTON, DC — Steve Bannon left the White House because the Trump administration “needed a wingman outside” and now wants to help get allies of President Donald Trump elected to t...

 KEY WEST — Only now are we seeing how badly Hurricane Irma decimated the Florida Keys.Two days after Irma made landfall there, authorities and residents were finally able to reach some of ...

RICHMOND, Va (WMAL)– Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency to prepare for any possible impact by Hurricane Irma and to provide aid to impacted states. In the statem...

Barbara Britt WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)–A suspect in one of our area’s most notorious crimes is poised to plead guilty. 60 year old Lloyd Lee Welch, accused in the disappearance of the tw...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is headed to Harvard University as a visiting fellow.Lewandowski is among a list of political fig...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has passed a $7.9 billion Harvey aid package. Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm even as while an ever more powerful new hurricane bore ...

PUERTO RICO — (CNN) Mayo was there on a business trip. “It is pouring down rain. It is howling,” she told CNN. “Most people are either in their bathroom, or they’ve been ...