Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (AP) - On their first day in the majority, House Democrats have passed a plan to re-open the government without funding President Donald Trump's promised border wall. The largely party-line...

NEW YORK - Stocks tumbled Thursday on Wall Street, with technology companies suffering their worst loss in seven years, after Apple reported that iPhone sales in China are slumping. The rare warning o...

More than a decade after Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams made moviegoers believe in love again, “The Notebook” is coming to Broadway. Singer Ingrid Michaelson and “This Is Us” ...

WASHINGTON — The 116th class of Congress broke barriers before its members even set foot in Washington.There are record numbers of women who will be sworn in Thursday. Muslim women will be servi...

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A new plastic straw law had unexpected consequences when a man lashed out at a worker at a fast food chain.The Florida man had just received his order at a McDonald’s ...

CLEVELAND –A Jewish human rights organization is calling for the license of an Ohio doctor to be revoked after reports of anti-Semitic tweets, including one saying she would intentionally give J...

WASHINGTON (AP) - No one budged at President Donald Trump's closed-door meeting with congressional leaders, so the partial government shutdown persisted over his demand for billions of dollars to buil...

BEIJING (AP) - China's burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. The United States, the then-Soviet Union and more recently China have al...

DETROIT - As a staff sergeant with the Marines in Iraq, Paul Whelan enjoyed fine cigars and showed an affinity for Russia - even spending two weeks of military leave in Moscow and St. Petersburg inste...

NEW YORK (AP) - The roller-coaster ride on Wall Street resumed on Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year, as stocks plunged early on, then slowly recovered and finished with a slight gain. T...