Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LONDON (AP) - Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have acces...

NEW YORK (AP) - Something happens when James Taylor covers a song. It gets all James Taylor-y."People often tell me, 'It sounds like you wrote that song' or 'That sounds like a James Taylor song.' And...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Every week, Army Lt. Gen. Pat White dons his workout clothes and walks through the neighborhoods at Fort Hood with his wife, Emma, and golden retriever Sadie, looking for some unvarn...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Saturday his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is doing "very well" in quarantine after becoming infected with the coronavirus. "My son Donald is doing very w...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP/WMAL) - A 17-year-old from Illinois who is charged with killing two people during a protest in Wisconsin and whose case has become a rallying cry for some conservatives posted $2 mil...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland lawmakers renewed criticism Friday of Gov. Larry Hogan's April procurement of 500,000 COVID-19 tests from South Korea after The Washington Post reported the first batch ...

BOSTON (AP) - A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter's musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for $495,000. Boston-based R.R. Auc...

ROME (AP) - The Vatican is investigating how Pope Francis' official Instagram account "liked" a photo of a scantily-clad Brazilian model. A Vatican official said Friday the "like" didn't originate fro...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City's public schools are closed. Will restaurants and bars be next? The day after he announced that New York City schools would close to in-person learning, Mayor Bill de Bla...

Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street Friday following another choppy day of trading as worries about the worsening pandemic undercut growing optimism about a coming coronavirus vaccine. The S&am...