Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Amir Hekmati, one of the five Americans released by Iran, said Tuesday that his freedom was “like being born again.” “I feel extremely lucky, alive, for the ...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Alarmist market calls have gotten a lot of attention so far this year. Gold will soar! Oil could hit $10! Sell everything! Prepare for a return to the barter system! (Okay. I ma...

NEW YORK — (CNN) This is real news. Univision has purchased a minority stake in Onion Inc. — the company behind the satirical news site The Onion, according to a Univision release. Univisi...

BAGHDAD — (CNN) Wartime pressure on the Islamic State is forcing it to slash its fighters’ salaries by half, according to documents leaked from inside ISIS territory. ISIS might seem like ...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Here’s a staggering figure to consider next time you’re grumbling about the long lines at the airport check-in counter: 1.184 billion. That’s how many tourists...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) It was bound to happen sometime — the return of winter to the Northeast. It is January after all.It’s three weeks into the new year and a major snowstorm is brewin...

  Dave Sweet and Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) The Republican National Committee is severing ties with NBC in favor of CNN for its February 25 debate. Previously the debate was t...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King’s legacy on his birthday, two prominent African-Americans announced Monday that they will boycott this year’s Academy Awards o...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Many western sanctions on Iran are gone. Most of the world is focused on how this could drive oil prices even lower, but Iranians are asking: Will Tehran get McDonald’s ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Donald Trump pitched himself Monday to Christian students at Liberty University as a politically incorrect protector of Christianity, tailoring his classic stump speech to the...