Category Archives: WMAL News Now

LONDON - Angelina Jolie has not ruled out a move into politics - and has joked that she might be tough enough to take the rough and tumble that comes with it. The American actress and U.N. envoy told ...

DETROIT - Aretha Franklin's estate has paid at least $3 million in back taxes to the IRS since her death in August, an attorney for the late Queen of Soul's estate said Thursday. The estate is being a...

WASHINGTON - Most Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases - but a new poll shows they'd draw the line at changing DNA so ch...

WASHINGTON - The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought...

WASHINGTON - More police officers have died in the line of duty this year in the United States than in 2017, according to data released Thursday. The most common cause of death was gunfire, and vehicu...

NEW YORK - Electric utility Con Edison is working to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York Ci...

NEW YORK (AP) - Preparations for New Year's Eve in Times Square are taking shape, and some of those shapes are 192 new crystal triangles on the famous ball.The new Waterford crystal triangles will joi...

Photo Credit – APBOSTON - Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's convictions or death sentence should be tossed because it was impossible for him to get a fair trial in the same city where t...

WASHINGTON - The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local): 3:32 p.m. House lawmakers don't plan to vote this week to end the government shutdown. That's according to the office of R...

Stocks are falling sharply Thursday, making the prior day's strong performance seem like an aberration, as Wall Street stumbles toward what could be its worst December since the Great Depression. The ...