Category Archives: WMAL News Now

TOKYO - President Donald Trump said Monday he is not "personally" bothered by recent short-range North Korean missile tests and doesn't believe they violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, breakin...

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violatio...

BARRON, Wis. - A Wisconsin man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents in a case that mystified authorities for months until the girl made...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that he has been considering pardons for several American military members accused of war crimes, including headline-grabbing cases of shooting unarmed ...

LYON, France - An explosion Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon injured seven people, local officials said.The cause of the blast that occurred in or outside a branch of the ...

WASHINGTON - A House GOP conservative complaining of Washington's free-spending and opaque ways blocked a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill on Friday, extending a tempest over hurricane and f...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill that bans abortions on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy without exceptions for cases of rape or incest, making it among th...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will bolster its military presence in the Middle East with an additional 1,500 troops, President Donald Trump said Friday amid heightened tensions with Iran.Trump said the troops...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration proposed Friday to roll back Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care, a move LGBT groups warn will unleash a wave of discrimina...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Abortion providers asked a federal judge Friday to block an Alabama law that would ban most abortions in the state. The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed t...