Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LONDON - British lawmakers were preparing to vote Wednesday on myriad options for leaving the European Union as they sought to end an impasse following the overwhelming defeat of the deal negotiated b...

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans are forcing a vote on the Green New Deal as they seek to turn the Democrats' comprehensive climate change proposal into a wedge issue in the 2020 elections.Democrats ca...

ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's powerful army chief said Tuesday he wants to trigger the constitutional process that would declare President Abdelaziz Bouteflika unfit for office, after more than a month...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The maker of OxyContin and the company's controlling family agreed to pay $270 million in a deal announced Tuesday with the state of Oklahoma to settle allegations they helped set off ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has nixed the first all-female spacewalk over a spacesuit sizing issue. Astronaut Anne McClain was supposed to float out of the International Space Station this Friday with...

WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House fell short Tuesday in its effort to override President Donald Trump's first veto, handing him a victory in his effort to spend billions more for constructi...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is nearing a victory over Democrats as the House tries overriding his first veto , a vote that seems certain to fail and would let stand his declaration of a nation...

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a law banning most abortions after 18 weeks of gestation, setting the stage for a legal showdown. Though the Republican governor said the measure sig...

CHICAGO - Attorneys for "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett say charges alleging he lied to police about an attack have been dropped. Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a Tu...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home from Washington on Tuesday, heading straight into military consultations after a night of heavy fire as Israeli aircraft bombed Gaza...