Category Archives: WMAL News Now

Sotheby’s puts rare U.S. Constitution copy for auction
NEW YORK (AP) - A very special document will be auctioned off later this year - a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. Sotheby's announced Friday - appropriately on Constitution Day - that in November ...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Biden, world leaders push climate action, vow methane cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden tried on Friday to hammer out the world's next steps against rapidly worsening climate change with a small group of other global leaders and announced a new U.S.-...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Man sentenced to 12 years in $200 million phone-fraud scheme
SEATTLE (AP) - A Pakistan resident has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a conspiracy to "unlock" phones from AT&T's network, a scheme the company says cost it more than $200 million. Muham...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for elderly, high-risk
WASHINGTON (AP) - An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots to most Americans, but it endorsed the extra shots for those who are...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that a review revealed that only civilians were ...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Thousands of Haitian migrants converge on Texas border town
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town, presenting the Biden administration with a new and chaotic challenge Friday a...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Justice Department reviewing policies on transgender inmates
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system after protections for transgender prisoners were rolled back in the Trump...
Syndicated Author Sep 17, 2021

Biden angers France, EU with new Australia, UK initiative
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's decision to form a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with Australia and Britain to counter China is angering France and the European Union. They're feeling left o...
Syndicated Author Sep 16, 2021

Court halts use of health order to expel migrant families
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the U.S. government must stop using a Trump-era public health order to quickly expel migrants with children who are apprehended along the U.S.-Mex...
Syndicated Author Sep 16, 2021

WATCH: Virginia Gubernatorial Debate
WMAL NewsRepublican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are squaring off in their first debate of this election season.The hour-long debate is taking place at the Appalachian School of Law in ...
Syndicated Author Sep 16, 2021
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