Category Archives: WMAL News Now

Maria Leaf WMAL.com Metro’s pandemic task force has announced it’s going to close 17 additional stations and selected entrances due to a 90 percent drop in riders. 17 more stations will cl...

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas' lieutenant governor said Monday night that the U.S. should get back to work in the face of the global pandemic and that people over the age of 70, who the Centers for Disease Co...

WASHINGTON - With lives and the economy hanging in the balance, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is hoping the country will be reopened by Easter, as he weighs how to refine nationwide social-di...

Airline service in the United States is teetering on the brink of collapse, with near-empty planes and coronavirus outbreaks that have left some air traffic control towers empty.Even with sharply redu...

WASHINGTON - Top congressional and White House officials say they expect to reach a deal Tuesday on a nearly $2 trillion measure aimed at easing the economic damage inflicted by the coronavirus pandem...

NEW YORK - Stocks around the world rallied Tuesday amid expectations that Congress is nearing a deal to pump nearly $2 trillion of aid into the coronavirus-ravaged economy.Top congressional and White ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, and says continued closures could result in more deaths than the coronavirus pande...

IOC members, national Olympic committees and athletes were all racing toward the same conclusion Monday: The Tokyo Olympics are not going to take place this summer. Craig Reedie, a longtime member of ...

AUSTIN, Texas - The governor and attorney general of Texas are moving to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don't qualify as essential surgeries. Attorney ...

WASHINGTON - The Redskins have traded for a quarterback coach Ron Rivera is plenty familiar with. Just not that one. Washington on Monday acquired Kyle Allen from the Carolina Panthers, according to a...