Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LONDON - Bowing to the inevitable, Theresa May announced Friday that she will step down as U.K. Conservative Party leader in two weeks, admitting defeat in her attempt to take Britain out of the Europ...

MIAMI - A surge of asylum-seeking families has been straining cities along the southern U.S. border for months, but now the issue is flowing into cities far from Mexico, where immigrants are being hou...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. filed new charges Thursday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of placing the United States at risk of "serious harm" by publishing thousands of secret and cla...

WASHINGTON - Congress is rushing to wrap up a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill, but only after Democrats insisted on jettisoning President Donald Trump's $4.5 billion request to handle an un...

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that aims to combat the illegal robocalls torturing Americans .Though the measure wouldn't eliminate all unwanted calls, it would give regulators more tools to go aft...

ARLINGTON, Va. - President Donald Trump paid his respects Thursday to those who died in service to the United States by placing American flags at several gravesites during an early Memorial Day visit ...

CHICAGO - A judge in Chicago ordered the file in Jussie Smollett's criminal case unsealed Thursday, saying the actor's actions did not appear to be those of someone seeking to maintain his privacy.The...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi openly questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office Thursday, suggesting a family or staff "intervention" after a dramatic blow-up at a White House me...

John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by invading U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under...

NEW YORK - A banker who prosecutors say tried to buy himself a senior post in President Donald Trump's administration by making risky loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was arrested...