Category Archives: WMAL News Now

CHESTER, PA (CNN) — Investigators arrived on the scene Sunday to start unraveling how and why an Amtrak train crashed into a backhoe on a track near Philadelphia, killing two people. Their job w...

WASHINGTON — (CNN)The Republican race will center on Fargo, North Dakota, this weekend where Republican leaders and party activists will pick 25 delegates to the Republican National Convention.&...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) House Democrats are seeing the benefits of the “Trump effect.”More Latino immigrants are becoming citizens, there is an expanded battlefield of competitive races a...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) A Turkish journalist and researcher claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail harassed them at an event at the Brookings Institution on Thursday.Befo...

 WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama warned that the world “cannot be complacent” about nuclear safety as the “threat of nuclear terrorism” continues and evolv...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Key members of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) have filed a lawsuit demanding pay parity from U.S. soccer’s governing body.The five players who filed the su...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The latest blow to the daily fantasy sports business came Thursday when DraftKings and FanDuel announced they’ll stop operating games based on college-level sports on Sa...

RICHMOND — (CNN) A man pulled a gun and shot a Virginia State Police trooper during a training exercise at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, on Thursday. Both the trooper and the su...

NEW YORK — (CNN) The obesity epidemic has gone global, and it may be worse than most thought. A new study in The Lancet says that if current trends continue, 18% of men and 21% of women will be ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — (CNN) California has become the first state in the nation to approve a statewide $15 minimum wage. Both the State Assembly and State Senate passed the measure on Thursday aftern...