Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON — The grinding pressure of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is starting to do strange things to people’s heads. How else to explain a staggering, real...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida State Senate narrowly passed a bill Monday that would raise the age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21, require a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases and ban th...

JACKSON, MISS. — The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi, tells The Associated Press he will resign April 1 because of health problems. The 80...

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — West Virginia’s House has voted to end abortion rights under the state constitution. The resolution was approved 73-25 Monday. The Senate passed it a month ago and it g...

NEW YORK — Martin Shkreli was ordered by a federal judge Monday to forfeit nearly $7.4 million as a result of his fraud convictions last year. Brooklyn Federal Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said he must ...

DEPTFORD, N.J. — Authorities say a large brawl that spilled out of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in New Jersey left two people injured, including an employee who tried to break up the fight. Dept...

ALBANY, N.Y. — At least eight states currently have laws requiring that schools notify parents when their child is being bullied or is bullying other kids. But such policies have come under atta...

PENNSYLVANIA — This time, Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial could look a lot different than his first. The 80-year-old comedian returned to the same Pennsylvania courtroom Monday where he ...

NEW YORK — Did you watch hit movie “Wonder Woman” and daydream about escaping to her home, the female-only island of Themyscira? That dream could soon become a reality: entrepreneur ...

TALLAHASSEE — In the wake of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, state lawmakers are struggling to reach a consensus on new regulations to protect schools. With only five days to go in the...