Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday is toughening COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and contractors as he aims to boost vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant th...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House will withdraw the nomination of a gun-control advocate to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after David Chipman ran into bipartisan opposit...

NEW YORK (AP) - The remains of two people who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center were positively identified this week, as officials continued the difficult and heart-wrenc...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration moved Wednesday to oust 18 allies of Donald Trump who were named to U.S. military academy boards in the final months of the Republican president's term in of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years - a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive chan...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - More than half of the United States now offers legal sports betting, just three years after it was allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court.When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dall...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Florida judge has ruled the state cannot enforce its ban on mask mandates in public schools while an appeals court sorts out whether the ban is legal. Leon County Circuit Judg...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - New Orleans lifted a nightly curfew Wednesday as the city moved closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Taliban on Wednesday that any legitimacy or support "will have to be earned" after Afghanistan's new rulers announced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Donald Trump has chosen a favored candidate in his bid to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most vocal Republican critics. Trump is planning to endorse Wyoming atto...