Category Archives: WMAL News Now

FLORIDA — (AP) The U.S. Postal Service is going all out for this summer’s total solar eclipse, with a first-of-its kind stamp.Just touch the stamp with your finger, and the heat transforms...

TEXAS — (CNN) ExxonMobil has lost a legal fight against environmentalists in its home state of Texas over air pollution at one of the oil giant’s oldest refineries. A Texas court ordered E...

AUSTIN — (AP) The Texas House has given final approval to a strict ban on “sanctuary cities” in the country’s second-largest state. The bill seeks to empower police to enforce ...

  CHICAGO — (CNN) United Airlines just reached a settlement with Dr. David Dao, the passenger who was violently dragged off a flight earlier this month in an incident that created an firest...

TEXAS — (AP) Southwest Airlines says it plans to stop overbooking flights – an industry practice implicated in an ugly incident on a United Airlines flight that has damaged United’s ...

  WASHINGTON — (CNN) Are physical books the new vinyl? New data suggest that the reading public is ditching e-books and returning to the old fashioned printed word. Sales of consumer e-book...

CANADA — (CNN) Canada is ready to play hard ball with President Trump. Canadian leaders are pushing back after the Trump administration slapped 20% tariffs Monday night on Canadian lumber, along...

Hartford, CT — (CNN) The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is in Connecticut one last time. After 146 years, the so-called Greatest Show On Earth is closing the curtain next month a...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A Somali pirate has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in attacking a U.S. Navy ship.Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that 31-year-old Mohamed Farah was among se...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) – A northern Virginia woman says she was asked to leave a church for breastfeeding her 1-year-old daughter.Women in Virginia are allowed to breastfeed anywhere they have a ...