Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LAS VEGAS — Authorities are planning to put up billboards in Las Vegas to seek more tips as they investigate the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. Undersheriff Kevin McMahill al...

  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious and moral objections. The administration has ...

WASHINGTON — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is expected to plead guilty soon to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy rather than face trial for leaving his Afghanistan post. That’s accordin...

  MADAGASCAR — An unusually widespread outbreak of the plague is menacing Madagascar.At least 33 people have died and more than 200 have been infected with plague across the country, a...

 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to “decertify” the Iran nuclear deal next week, declaring the Obama-era pact not in US interests and launching a congressional review ...

  PHOENIX, AZ — Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in the Phoenix area in recent weeks, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation t...

CHARLOTTE — Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said the “joke is on me” as he apologized for a sexist remark he made to a female reporter. The 28-year-old has lost a sponsor, b...

OSLO — The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said ICAN was receiving the award for its “work...

 WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget panel has approved a fiscal blueprint that would pave the way for a major rewrite of the U.S. tax code, a top priority of President Donald Trump and his GOP ...

 LOS ANGELES — Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein is taking a leave of absence from his own company after The New York Times released a report alleging decades of sexual harassment aga...