Category Archives: WMAL News Now

THE PENTAGON — Three members of the US Special Operations Forces were killed and two others were wounded in southwest Niger near the Mali-Niger border when a joint US-Nigerien patrol was attacke...

COLLEGE STATION, TX — All five living former US presidents will participate in a benefit concert to raise money for hurricane relief efforts in Texas later this month, the George H.W. Bush Presi...

MIAMI — Though summer officially ended almost two weeks ago, hurricane season is still in full swing, with a new storm forming in the southwestern Caribbean near Central America. Despite being m...

LAS VEGAS — The gunman in the Las Vegas massacre spent decades amassing weapons, and had rented a room overlooking another music festival in the city the previous weekend, authorities say. Steph...

  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Republican Congressman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania has announced plans to retire at the end of this term - amid tawdry revelations of an extramarital affair. Murphy, who i...

Washington, D.C. — (CNN) Republican and Democratic senators are gobsmacked that Equifax just received a government contract to help the IRS guard against fraud. Just last month, the credit monit...

Washigngton, DC — (CNN) Discord between President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat is at an all-time high, spilling into public view in recent days, peaking with a NBC News report Wednesday t...

Washignton, D.C. — (WMAL) It took nine to 11 minutes of gunfire for Stephen Paddock to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. From his 32nd-floor window at a Las Vegas hotel...

SAN JUAN — President Trump on Tuesday raised the prospect of wiping out hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico’s crushing debt load. “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street. W...

LAS VEGAS — Every detail of this indiscriminate mass murder seemed meticulously planned. The selection of a hotel room overlooking a music festival, days before the attack. The cache of 23 weapo...