Category Archives: WMAL News Now

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ray Rice has won the appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL. An arbitrator ruled Friday that his suspension should be vacated immediately. Former U.S. District Judge Barb...

LONDON (AP) — Migrants from Europe will have to leave Britain if they don't get a job within six months, and must work for four years before receiving some benefits, Prime Minister David Ca...

LONDON (AP) — Americans celebrating Thanksgiving in Britain may have felt right at home as Black Friday shopping chaos caused some disruption.The practice of offering bargain basement prices the...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Demonstrators sought to catch the attention of shoppers looking for good deals on Friday, going to major retailers around the St. Louis area to speak out about a grand jury&...

NEW YORK (AP) — Early-bird shoppers headed to stores on Thanksgiving in what's becoming a new holiday tradition.In the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois, the parking lot of a Wal-Mart ...

(WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a Washington, D.C. hospital on Thursday.Ginsburg was admitted at MedStar Washington Hospital Center on Wednesday after ...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The word spread within minutes of Michael Brown's death – a young black man with his hands raised in surrender had just been shot by a white cop.Soon, "Hands...