Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb. 18, after congressional leaders defused a partisan ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland health officials have confirmed the first three cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus in residents of the state, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Friday.All thre...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed five Republican-authored anti-abortion bills on Friday, two days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could cu...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - A three-judge panel overseeing a recount in a close Virginia Beach state House race upheld the Republican candidate's victory on Friday, a decision that also reaffirms the G...

WASHINGTON (AP) - America's employers slowed the pace of their hiring in November, adding 210,000 jobs, the lowest monthly gain in nearly a year.But Friday's report from the Labor Department also show...

NEW YORK (AP) - Alec Baldwin told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was holding on a New Mexico film set when it went off, k...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Many parts of the country were hit by supply chain disruptions and labor shortages in November, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.In a survey of business conditions around the c...

CHICAGO (AP) - A man who worked with Jussie Smollett testified Wednesday that the former "Empire" actor recruited him and his brother to fake a homophobic and racist attack on him in downtown Chicago ...

OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder and terrorism for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school, authorities said Wed...

ATLANTA (AP) - Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor.Witho...