Category Archives: WMAL News Now

  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – President Donald Trump plans to attend the annual Gridiron Dinner, a white-tie society affair he stayed away from last year. Gridiron President David Lightman...

  NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball is imposing stricter limits on mound visits in an effort to speed games but decided against 20-second pitch clocks for 2018. After more than a year o...

  Amanda Engel WMAL.com PARKLAND, Fla. (WMAL) — Florida Governor Rick Scott released a statement today calling on the FBI to release all of the details on their “failure to take actio...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of teenage students are lying down on the pavement in front of the White House to demand presidential action on gun control after 17 students were killed in a sch...

 WASHINGTON (AP) -President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have met with victims of a school shooting who are recovering at a Florida hospital.He's praising the "incredible" work of do...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A powerful earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to flee buildings and office towers in the country's capital, and setting off quake alert systems.Crowds of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The office of special counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities. The defendants are accused of violating U.S. criminal laws...

WASHINGTON — A person close to Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter in the Parkland, Florida, school massacre, contacted the FBI on January 5 to report concerns about him, the bureau said in a st...

WASHINGTON — Enjoy the early warmth as long as you can on Friday. For much of the eastern US, Thursday felt like spring. Now, just like Soul II Soul sang in 1989, it is ‘back to life, back...

WASHINGTON — The deaths of 22 more children from flu-related causes were reported Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its weekly surveillance report. Those deaths brin...