Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Four people died after a semi-truck hauling lumber plowed into vehicles on a crowded section of Interstate 70 near Denver, causing a fire so intense that it melted the roadway and me...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is reporting he raised $6.3 million in the first day of his campaign, the most of any of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in the first 24 hours after their a...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon may send about 300 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in roles that could put them in contact with migrants and thus mark a break from current practice, officials said. Ch...

INDIANAPOLIS - President Donald Trump vowed to fight for gun rights as he addressed the National Rifle Association on Friday and implored members of the group - struggling to maintain its influence - ...

WASHINGTON - A Russian woman who admitted to being a secret agent for the Kremlin has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Maria Butina has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and will get credit...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is urging Americans to get vaccinations to prevent the spread of measles.Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, said that people "have to get th...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Army veteran with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder was on his way to a Bible class when he told investigators he intentionally drove into a group of men, women and childr...

NEW YORK (AP) - A Long Island man ran a prostitution ring out of his elderly parents' sprawling suburban home, enticing women with drugs and locking them in a basement where he forced them to use a bu...

HOUSTON (AP) - Former Vice President Joe Biden's decision to enter the Democratic presidential race is causing consternation among some Democrats, particularly women of color, who have been hoping for...

BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S. illegally evade an immigration agent by sneaking out the back door of a courthouse...