Category Archives: WMAL News Now

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 21 feet on the odometer in its first test drive. The Perseverance rover ventured from its landing positio...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Borrowing by Americans fell in January for the first time in five months, as the use of credit cards fell to the lowest level in four years, offsetting gains in auto loans and studen...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Eric Swalwell, who served as a House manager in Donald Trump's last impeachment trial, filed a lawsuit Friday against the former president, his son, lawyer and a Republican cong...

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) - A man found Tiger Woods unconscious in a mangled SUV after the golf star crashed the vehicle in Southern California, authorities said in court documents obtained F...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge's order on Friday to extend a temporary restraining order. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis' e...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate seemingly killed progressives' last-ditch effort to include a minimum wage hike in the Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Friday, as the chamber began climactic...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration stepped up its condemnation of the coup in Myanmar on Thursday, demanding that military authorities stop their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested Thursday that inflation will pick up in the coming months but that it would likely prove temporary and not enough for the Fed to alter i...

TORONTO (AP) - The leader of Canada's most populous province expressed irritation Thursday with the U.S. refusal to ship vaccines north of the border, saying he'd hoped for a change of stance with a n...

BOSTON (AP) - Distance running, traditionally one of the world's most genteel sports, has been roiled by an ugly mid-pandemic squabble over who should get a shot at a coveted Boston Marathon medal.Riv...