Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Key members of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) have filed a lawsuit demanding pay parity from U.S. soccer’s governing body.The five players who filed the su...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The latest blow to the daily fantasy sports business came Thursday when DraftKings and FanDuel announced they’ll stop operating games based on college-level sports on Sa...

RICHMOND — (CNN) A man pulled a gun and shot a Virginia State Police trooper during a training exercise at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, on Thursday. Both the trooper and the su...

NEW YORK — (CNN) The obesity epidemic has gone global, and it may be worse than most thought. A new study in The Lancet says that if current trends continue, 18% of men and 21% of women will be ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — (CNN) California has become the first state in the nation to approve a statewide $15 minimum wage. Both the State Assembly and State Senate passed the measure on Thursday aftern...

CHICAGO — (CNN) Eighty-year-old Betty Johnson has lived in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood since 1968. She raised two children and several grandchildren on the city’s far south side,...

Starbucks is one of the latest companies to sign a letter asking North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the state’s anti-LGBT law. The letter originally came out on Tuesday with the signa...

Apple has updated Siri’s response to statements such as “I was raped” after research found the digital assistant’s responses were “insufficient.”A recent study publ...

DOHA, QATAR (CNN) — He’s the migrant worker busting a gut to build Qatar’s shiny soccer stadiums that will host FIFA’s World Cup in 2022 — at a price.For Prem — a m...

MINNEAPOLIS (CNN) — Minneapolis police Officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze will not face charges in the November shooting death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mik...