Category Archives: WMAL News Now

Confederate Flag-Bearing Trucks Park Outside Michigan School
AUBURN, Mich. (AP) - Pickup trucks bearing Confederate flags have been parking across from a high school in central Michigan, leading some students to counter-protest against racism and bigotry.The Ba...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Largest Maker of Bump Stocks Will Stop Accepting Orders
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The largest manufacturer of bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, announced Wednesday that it will stop taking orders and shut dow...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

IRS: millions able to file taxes with system working again
The IRS says its processing systems are fully back up and running after an outage on Tax Day.The agency said that a hardware issue caused an outage of some its processing systems, which frustrat...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Minnesota Prosecutors Plan Announcement on Prince’s Death
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors in the Minnesota county where Prince died will announce a decision Thursday on criminal charges following a two-year investigation into the musician's death from an acci...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Professional Wrestling Great Bruno Sammartino Dies at 82
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Bruno Sammartino, professional wrestling's "Living Legend" and one of its longest-reigning champions, has died. Sammartino was 82.Family friend and former wrestling announcer Christo...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Bed Bath & Beyond Is In Serious Trouble
By Paul R. La Monica UNION, Nj. — Bed Bath & Beyond … hope? The struggling retailer issued a lousy outlook last week, sending the stock to a nearly 10-year low. Credit ratings agency S...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Starbucks’ Howard Schultz: ‘Ashamed’ By Arrests At Philadelphia Store
By Nathaniel Meyersohn PHILADELPHIA — Starbucks founder Howard Schultz says he was “ashamed” and “embarrassed” by the arrests of two black men at one of the coffee chain&...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Puerto Rico Suffers Island-Wide Power Outage
By Ray Sanchez and Lonzo Cook CNN SAN JUAN — Puerto Rico has suffered an island-wide power outage, Puerto Rico’s power authority said Wednesday — nearly seven months after Hurricane ...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Southwest Passengers Recount The Terror Of Flying In Damaged Jet
PHILADELPHIA — For 20 minutes, the Southwest Airlines jet was a normal flight from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard.The plane was flying at 32,500 feet Tuesday morning as passengers set...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018

Trump Takes A Second Look At TPP Deal – And Rejects It Again
PALM BEACH, FL — President Donald Trump has renewed his attack on a huge Pacific trade pact just days after raising the possibility of the United States rejoining it.Trump wrote on Twitter late ...
Syndicated Author Apr 18, 2018
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