Category Archives: WMAL News Now

America's most iconic youth organizations - the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA - have been jolted by unprecedented one-year drops in membership, due partly to the pandemic, and p...

NEW YORK (AP) - TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group NXIVM, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday on charges she manipulated women into becomi...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court overturned Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City elections officials will try again Wednesday to report preliminary results of the Democratic mayoral primary after a first attempt went disastrously wrong. The mayor's ra...

SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) - Four more bodies have been found in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo tower, a fire official said Wednesday, raising the death toll in the disaster to 16 people. Miami-D...

Stocks ended mostly higher Friday, helping the S&P 500 index close out its best week since February. It's a notable turnaround for the market, which only the previous week had its worst week since...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure deal was thrown in doubt Friday as Republican senators felt "blindsided" by his insistence that it must move in tandem with his bigger...

MIAMI (AP) - The first cruise ship to board passengers at a U.S. port in 15 months is set to sail Saturday from the industry's South Florida hub in a symbolic stride toward normalcy that will be watch...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin awaited sentencing Friday for the murder of George Floyd, whose death under Chauvin's knee set off a fierce and sometimes violent rec...

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) - About 160 people were still unaccounted for Friday after an oceanside condominium building collapsed into a smoldering pile of rubble, and searchers using both heavy machinery an...