Category Archives: WMAL News Now

ARLINGTON — Repairs are underway on the sinkhole that closed the southbound George Washington Memorial Parkway between Route 123 and Spout Run during Tuesday morning's rush hour.  Doug...

(WASHINGTON) - It's not even 2015, and the 2016 presidential race already has its first dropout.Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican who was once considered a top contender to be Mitt Romney's vice pre...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday he wants to ensure the U.S. isn't building a "militarized culture" within police departments, while maintaining federal progra...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bono has some top notch understudies: Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin of Coldplay acted as the U2 frontman, who is recovering from a bike accident, at a concert Monday night h...

ATLANTA (AP) — Speaking at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he will...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struggled Monday over where to draw the line between free speech and illegal threats in the digital age. The justices considered the case of a Pennsylvania ma...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Barack Obama planned to hold meetings Monday on the Ferguson situation, and a few members of the St. Louis Rams football team showed their support for protesters who h...

NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out world, the Girl Scouts are going digital to sell you cookies. For the first time since sales began nearly 100 years, Girl Scouts of the USA will allow its young go-gett...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lame-duck lawmakers return to Washington on Monday facing a stacked agenda and not much time to get it all done before the new Congress convenes in January and a Republican tak...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special ope...