Category Archives: WMAL News Now

Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that abortion is not a crime
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila - a state on the Texas border - ...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Hurricane Ida power outages, misery persist 9 days later
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana, most of them outside New Orleans, still didn't have power Tuesday and more than half of the gas stations in two major cit...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Evacuees plead for action: ‘We are in some kind of jail’
WASHINGTON (AP) - American veterans groups and others are pleading for U.S. and Taliban action on a weeklong standoff that has left hundreds of would-be evacuees from Afghanistan desperate to board wa...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Biden seeking additional funds for Ida relief and Afghans
The White House is asking Congress to approve an additional $24 billion in spending to handle the costs of Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters, as well as $6.4 billion for the resettlement of ev...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Texas governor signs Election Integrity into law
TYLER, Texas (AP/WMAL) - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into law Tuesday that adds more voting restrictions in the booming state, after Democrats spent months protestin...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Taliban name caretaker Cabinet that pays homage to old guard
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet that paid homage to the old guard of the group, giving top posts to Taliban personalities who dominated the 20-year battl...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

Idaho enacts crisis hospital care standards amid COVID surge
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho public health leaders activated "crisis standards of care" for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.The...
Syndicated Author Sep 07, 2021

MD governor tours tornado damage in Annapolis and Edgewater and calls it devastating
Heather Curtis WMAL.comGov. Larry Hogan walked through debris littered streets of Annapolis and Edgewater on Thursday looking at buildings torn apart by a tornado on Wednesday afternoon that formed as...
Syndicated Author Sep 02, 2021

McAuliffe talks abortion, Youngkin taxes at Virginia forum
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe told northern Virginia business leaders Wednesday that the recently enacted abortion legislation in Texas serves as a warning about what might happen if Rep...
Syndicated Author Sep 01, 2021

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ flies to 2022 due to coronavirus surge
NEW YORK (AP) - Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of "Top Gun: Maverick," sending another of the fall's top movies out of 2021 due to the rise in coronavirus cases and the delta va...
Syndicated Author Sep 01, 2021
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