Category Archives: WMAL News Now

KOLKATA, India - Cyclone Fani tore through India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 205 kilometers (127 miles) per hour and affecting weath...

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy might slow this year and now anticipate strong customer...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films, has died. Mayhew’s family said in a statement Thursday that he died at his home in Texas o...

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday failed to overturn President Donald Trump's veto of legislation that would have ended U.S. military assistance for the Saudi-led war in Yemen against Ir...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) – The Trump administration is opening two new tent facilities to increase the Border Patrol’s capacity to hold migrant families. The tents in El Paso and in the Rio Gra...

 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says his pick for the Federal Reserve board, conservative commentator Stephen Moore, has withdrawn from contention. The decision comes amid controversy o...

DENVER (AP) - U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, announcing a 2020 campaign that had been stalled while he was treated for prostat...

WASHINGTON — (AP) After more than two years of the Donald Trump presidency, Andrea Petrusky is ready for some fundamental changes in the way the United States government works."Right now we're b...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Justice Department says the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is trying to place "unprecedented and unnecessary" conditions on the attorney general. William Barr was sched...