Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (AP) - IRS pleas for more funding from Congress - made over the years by one leader after another - finally paid off this summer when Democrats tucked an $80 billion boost for the...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The federal government announced Tuesday a program that will provide $1.3 billion in debt relief for about 36,000 farmers who have fallen behind on loan payments or face forecl...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Embattled Los Angeles Councilman Kevin de Leon said Wednesday he will not resign amid an uproar over a leaked tape that revealed him participating in a meeting in which Latino offic...

NEW YORK (AP) - In Donald Trump's assessment, Mike Pence "committed political suicide" on Jan. 6, 2021.By refusing to go along with the then-president's unconstitutional push to overturn the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of Social Security recipients will get an 8.7% boost in their benefits in 2023.That's a historic increase and welcome news for American retirees and others - but it's temper...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy's Special Warfare Command has reprimanded three officers in connection with the February death of a SEAL candidate who collapsed and died of acute pneumonia just h...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - While preparing to march in a Saturday morning parade through this fast-growing city's westside, Democratic congressional candidate Hillary Scholten warned her sta...

NEW YORK (AP) - Leading Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly optimistic that a Senate majority is within reach even as a dramatic family fight in Geo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a U.S. Treasury report released Tuesday that logs America's daily finances.Edging closer to the st...

FAIRMEAD, Calif. (AP) - As California's drought deepens, Elaine Moore's family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water.The Central Valley almond growers had two wells go dry this su...