Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

PAKISTAN — (CNN) All 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines flight that crashed near Abbottabad were killed, the National Disaster Management Authority said. A pilot made a mayda...

LONDON — (CNN) Pope Francis has compared the media’s interest in scandal to an unhealthy obsession with feces.“The media should be very clear, very transparent, and not fall prey ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A member of the electoral college from Texas is maintaining that he will not cast his vote for President-elect Donald Trump when the college completes the electoral process la...

 (CNNMoney) — Time magazine has named Donald Trump its Person of the Year — calling him “President of the Divided States of America.”“I don’t think that we hav...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump has pointed to his hiring chops as a key asset, but he is already facing calls to rescind a job offer to one of his top national security picks. Ret. Gen. Michael...

By Val Lauder Editor’s note: Val Lauder, a former reporter for the Chicago Daily News and lecturer at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel H...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Nearly half of voters in last month’s election think Obamacare went too far, and their favored candidate has promised to repeal it as one of his first acts next month. But...

COLUMBUS, OH — (CNN) Ohio state lawmakers have passed a controversial “Heartbeat Bill” that would ban abortions from the moment the heartbeat of a fetus can be detected — which...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Congressional Republicans are using the short term government spending bill to expedite a vote on retired Gen. James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to le...

WMAL's 13th Annual WMAL/Fisher House Radiothon, benefiting Fisher House Foundation, raised a record-setting $491,064 from the station's generous and big-hearted listeners in the Washington, D.C. area ...