Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled his first slate of judicial nominees, a racially diverse and mostly female field that is a sharp departure from the largely white and male pic...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Family members of a Virginia college student who died after an alleged hazing incident said they're still seeking justice in his death. WRIC-TV reported Monday that the family of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an impassioned plea to Americans Monday not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19, saying she has a re...

SUEZ, Egypt (AP) - Salvage teams on Monday freed a colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal, ending a crisis that had clogged one of the world's most vital waterways and halte...

NEW YORK (AP) - A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular "Captain Underpants" series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it "perpetuates passive ra...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is extending a federal moratorium on evictions of tenants who have fallen behind on rent during the coronavirus pandemic.The Centers for Disease Control and ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped into the federal government's continued pandemic ban on cruise ships using U.S. ports, threatening Friday to file a lawsuit if one of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children's author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has d...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com MARYLAND (WMAL) – President Joe Biden wants you to be able to safely go to a Fourth of July barbecue. Maryland's governor wants you to be able to party even earlier. "I w...

NEW YORK (AP) - What's better than a powerful voice from the Black theater community singing about change? How about 13 such voices? Vanessa Williams, Billy Porter and Audra McDonald and other foundin...