Category Archives: WMAL News Now

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Democrats looking to unseat Republican Sen. Ron Johnson focused their attacks on him Sunday, and not each other, as the eight candidates made their case to party activis...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Re...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A proposal aimed at removing the last remnant of slavery from California law failed to pass the state Senate on Thursday after Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration warned it co...

(AP) — From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who say they were defrauded by their colleges, according to a propos...

DENVER (AP) - Joe O'Dea stood before hundreds of social conservatives and uttered words they were unaccustomed to hearing from a Republican U.S. Senate candidate: "I know my position on abortion isn't...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun.The 7-2 decision united both conservative and l...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama Tuesday, defeating six-term Rep. Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trum...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months - a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House approved a "red flag" bill Thursday that would allow families, police and others to ask federal courts to order the removal of firearms from people at extreme risk of harmi...