Category Archives: WMAL News Now

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) - Hollywood's Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, blasted into space Wednesday in a convergence of science fiction and science reality, reaching the final frontier aboard a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 members will begin a nationwide strike on Monday if it does not reach a deal that satisfies demands for fair and saf...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Democrat Mark Herring is seeking a third term as attorney general, highlighting a progressive record that includes defending gay marriage, gun control and criminal justice ref...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -Cross-country traveler Gabby Petito was strangled to death, a Wyoming coroner announced Tuesday.Petito, 22, died three to four weeks before her body was found Sept. 19 near an unde...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The county government that is home to Florida's capital was fined $3.5 million Tuesday by state health officials for requiring its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and for f...

NEW YORK (AP) - Kyrie Irving can continue to choose not to be vaccinated for COVID-19.He just won't play for the Brooklyn Nets until he is.The Nets announced Tuesday that Irving would not play or prac...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Maryland couple charged in a plot to sell sensitive U.S. submarine secrets to a foreign government will remain behind bars for now, a judge said Tuesday in granting a detention r...

WASHINGTON (AP) - One reason America's employers are having trouble filling jobs was starkly illustrated in a report Tuesday: Americans are quitting in droves.The Labor Department said that ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City will phase out its program for gifted and talented students that critics say favors whites and Asian American students, while enrolling disproportionately few Black and L...