Category Archives: WMAL News Now

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Barry formed off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday and threatened to blow ashore as a hurricane with drenching rains that could test the flood-control improvements m...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by Presiden...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Arizona authorities say a driver escaped injury when his car's windshield was pierced by the trunk of a saguaro cactus during a wreck Wednesday on the outskirts of Tucson. Pima County ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Deep-pocketed interest groups and activists on both sides of the long-running fight over gun laws are gearing up for a major clash in Virginia, now a key election battleground in the i...

WASHINGTON - Chairman Jerome Powell signaled Wednesday that the Federal Reserve will likely cut interest rates late this month for the first time in a decade in light of a weakening global economy and...

NEW YORK - The Justice Department can't replace nine lawyers so late in the dispute over whether to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census without explaining why it's doing so, a judge says.U.S...

LONDON - Britain's ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate h...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be looking "very closely" at Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed billionaire financier Jeffr...

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his family's history of slave ownership doesn't change his opposition to reparations. The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former P...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden is releasing his presidential financial disclosure, which shows that the former vice president earned millions of dollars, including more than $2.7 million for book deals and sp...