Category Archives: WMAL News Now

ANNAPOLIS — Capital Gazette staffers normally cover the Independence Day parade in Annapolis. This year, they marched in the parade instead. In the wake of last week’s shooting spree at th...

NEW YORK - A protest against U.S. immigration policy forced the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July, with a group unfurling a banner from the pedestal and a woman holding police ...

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND — British investigators have descended upon a small English town to find out how two seemingly random individuals were exposed to the same Soviet-era nerve agent that nearly k...

AUSTIN, TX — DNA testing is being conducted as part of the process to reunite children who were separated from their parents at the border, a federal official with knowledge of the reunification...

  AMESBURY, England - For the second time in four months, two people lie critically ill in England's Salisbury District Hospital after being exposed to a military-grade nerve agent developed in t...

  NEW YORK - With backyard barbecues and fireworks thundering across night skies, Americans are celebrating Independence Day by participating in time-honored traditions that express pride in thei...

  CONCORD, N.H. - A life-size bronze statue of a red-haired, freckled Archie will soon greet visitors at a New Hampshire town in honor of the local man who drew the comic book character and his g...

  WASHINGTON - For more than 30 years Justice Anthony Kennedy has lived by the Supreme Court's predictable calendar: hearing new cases beginning on the first Monday in October, arguments starting...

 WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has tweeted a military-themed, Independence Day video greeting to the nation. pic.twitter.com/ue5JEZy85v- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2018...

 NEW YORK - Judging errors cast widespread confusion over Joey "Jaws" Chestnut's record-setting 11th title at the annual Nathan's Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest.Chestnut took home the ...