Category Archives: WMAL News Now

GENEVA (AP) - Experts from scores of countries are meeting to discuss ways to define and deal with "killer robots" - futuristic weapons systems that could conduct war without human intervention. The w...

Shares of Tesla slipped on the first day of trading after the electric vehicle maker said it won't consider going private after all. In morning trading Monday, Tesla Inc. was trading at $313.13, down ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The government's top official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned in protest on Monday, citing what he says is the White House's open hostility toward protecting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two days after Sen. John McCain's death, President Donald Trump says he respects the senator's "service to our country" and has signed a proclamation to fly the U.S. flag at half-sta...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Statue of Liberty has been evacuated as a precaution after a propane fire erupted in a construction area on Liberty Island. Park spokesman Jerry Willis said shortly before 1 p.m. t...

A U.S. judge in Seattle has blocked the Trump administration from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns.Nineteen states and the District of Columbia had sought a...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Marquis Williams and Taylor Poindexter at first thought they heard a balloon popping. When the loud bangs kept coming, the Chicago couple and fellow video gamers attending a ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he intends to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement and call its replacement "the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement" - a name that would exclude...

BEIJING - Faced with plunging U.S. orders, surgical glove maker Ren Jiding is hunting for new markets amid Chinese government calls to reduce reliance on the United States. But none can absorb the 60 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Flags at the White House were back at full-staff Monday, even as Senate leaders of both parties formally requested American flags at government buildings stay at half-staff to honor ...