Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Maryland audit faults procurement of 500K virus tests
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's administration failed to follow state procurement regulations when it bought 500,000 COVID-19 tests from a South Korean company last year, and the fir...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second lin...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

‘First step:’ US, Iran to begin indirect nuclear-limit talks
The United States and Iran said Friday they will begin indirect negotiations with intermediaries next week to try to get both countries back into compliance with an accord limiting Iran's nuclear prog...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Man charged with 4 counts of murder in California shooting
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - A man was charged Friday with murder and attempted murder in a shooting rampage at a Southern California office building that left four people dead, including a 9-year-old boy. O...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

COVID outbreak hits Nationals; 3-game series vs. Mets off
WASHINGTON (AP) - The entire season-opening three-game series between the Washington Nationals and New York Mets was called off on Friday because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the 2019 World Series champi...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Notre Dame’s rector: “15 or 20 years” needed for restoration
PARIS (AP) - The rector of Notre Dame said Friday that the burned-out Paris cathedral and its esplanade could remain a building site for another "15 or 20 years." Rector Patrick Chauvet spoke to The A...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Lieutenant: Kneeling on Floyd’s neck ‘totally unnecessary’
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Kneeling on George Floyd 's neck while he was handcuffed and lying on his stomach was top-tier, deadly force and "totally unnecessary," the head of the Minneapolis Police Department...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second lin...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

March hiring accelerated to 916K, yet many jobs remain lost
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold as vaccinations accelerat...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021

Republicans trod path to court to sue Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) - These are busy days for Republican state attorneys general, filing repeated lawsuits that claim President Joe Biden and his administration are overstepping their authority on immigra...
Syndicated Author Apr 02, 2021
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