Category Archives: WMAL News Now

SYDNEY (AP) — Tearful Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where two of 17 hostages were killed Tuesday when police swooped into a cafe to rescue them from a gunman — an Iranian-...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A top Pakistani official says that 84 students have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar.Pervez Khattak, the ch...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's easy for Congress to meddle with the District of Columbia's decision to legalize recreational use of marijuana, but taking on the states is a different matter.A ...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Robert Griffin III isn't done yet with the Washington Redskins.A fifth starting quarterback change this season — this one mandated by Colt McCoy's aggravated ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unhappy Republicans say Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has given President Barack Obama a present this holiday season – a gift certificate good for confirmation of 12 judicial ap...

(SYDNEY) — A gunman holding captives in a Sydney chocolate shop and two of his hostages have been killed, Australian police confirmed.The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by l...

NEW YORK (AP) — A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 20...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine government prosecutors charged a U.S. Marine with murder Monday in the killing of a Filipino, saying the suspect acknowledged attacking the victim after he found ...

SYDNEY (AP) - A Sydney police spokeswoman has confirmed that there were fatalities during a hostage crisis that ended when officers stormed a downtown cafe.Police say 3 people are dead, including the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Their disputes over who spied on whom and censoring the Senate’s scathing torture report are history. But the personal feud between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and CIA Director John ...