Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and - unlike the plan he released last year - never comes clo...

MIAMI - Family members say crooner Vic Damone has died in Florida at the age of 89. Damone's mellow baritone brought him million-selling records and sustained a half-century career in recordings, movi...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday launched what he calls a "big week" for his infrastructure plan, which envisions $1.5 trillion in spending over a decade to rebuild roads and highways. Th...

MOSCOW - Emergency teams combed the snowy fields outside Moscow on Monday, searching for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people aboard it who died.The An-148 twin-engi...

WASHINGTON - The Senate begins a rare, open-ended debate on immigration and the fate of the "Dreamer" immigrants on Monday, and Republican senators say they'll introduce President Donald Trump's plan....

 WASHINGTON (AP) -Citing national security concerns, the White House is formally notifying the House intelligence committee that President Donald Trump is "unable" to declassify a memo drafted by...

WASHINGTON (AP) -A second White House staffer has departed the Trump administration in the wake of abuse allegations.Spokesman Raj Shah confirms speechwriter David Sorensen resigned Friday after the W...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Gavin, the tall, strikingly handsome actor who appeared in "Spartacus," Psycho" and other hit films of the 1960s before becoming President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to Mexico,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Justice Department's No. 3 official is planning to step down at a time of turmoil in the agency. A friend of Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand told The Associated Press she ...

NEW YORK — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the...