Washington

U.S. 01/10/20, 17:27

The advance of the Chinese regime in the Arctic poses a growing concern in the United States because it could represent a serious threat in the region. For Fiscal Year 2020, President Donald Trump issued a directive to examine and monitor ...

D.C. 12/02/19, 03:33

The president, first lady and their son returned from their Thanksgiving holiday in Florida to a widely anticipated political storm in the nation's capitol on Dec. 1. Donald Trump, wife Melania, and youngest son Barron disembarked Air Force One after arriving ...

D.C. 11/18/19, 04:23

The president commended one of the youngest women elected to Congress for delivering a major blow to House Democrats' impeachment inquiry on Nov. 17. Donald Trump has congratulated Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on successfully debunking a key theory of the investigation ...

U.S. 07/14/19, 05:33

A 69-year-old man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said. The Tacoma Police Department said the officers ...

U.S. 07/04/19, 11:34

As the United States prepared to celebrate another July 4, the president decided that this year he would add his own personal touch.  In addition to the U.S. military leading an aerial acrobatic show by Air Force One, the president plans ...

U.S. 06/12/19, 19:38

A man charged with murder in the 1987 killings of a young Canadian couple is facing trial in Washington state beginning this week, but the case won't challenge the new investigative technique authorities used to link him to the crime.William ...

U.S. 06/11/19, 19:19

A homeowner told law officers that two men linked to the killing of five people on an American Indian reservation in Washington state approached his residence and briefly took a child hostage at gunpoint while demanding car keys to make ...

U.S. 06/10/19, 20:21

Two men arrested in connection with five slaying over the weekend on the Yakama Indian Reservation were charged on Monday with assault with a dangerous weapon related to fleeing the slayings.James Cloud, 35, and Donovan Quinn Carter Cloud, whose age ...

U.S. 06/06/19, 15:03

A helicopter crew has rescued four climbers from near the summit of Mount Rainier after they had been stranded on the Cascade Mountain peak in Washington for several days.The National Park Service said in a statement the climbers were suffering ...

U.S. 05/31/19, 16:30

U.S. scientists said Friday they will investigate why an unusual number of gray whales are washing up dead on West Coast beaches.About 70 whales have been found dead so far this year on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and ...

U.S. 05/30/19, 12:02

At a mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, outside Washington, a large number of Muslims are reciting evening prayers before they break their daily fast at sunset for Ramadan. Afterward, some go home to

Business 05/28/19, 08:00

U.S. home prices rose at the slowest pace in more than six years in March, a sign weaker sales are keeping a lid on price increases.The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 2.7% from a year earlier, down ...

U.S. 05/26/19, 11:55

Laws cracking down on human trafficking are on the books in all 50 states, but convictions are notoriously elusive, and state prosecutors haven't come close to matching the success their federal counterparts have had in winning cases.States need to add ...

U.S. 05/25/19, 21:11

Executive director has grown frustrated with dealing with the Pentagon in coordinating the annual demonstration ride on Memorial Day

U.S. 05/25/19, 09:47

Nearly two decades after the Aryan Nations' Idaho compound was demolished, far-right extremists are maintaining a presence in the Pacific Northwest.White nationalism has been on the rise across the U.S., but it has particular resonance along the Idaho-Washington border, where ...

U.S. 05/22/19, 21:47

Washington has become the latest West Coast state to enact broad sanctuary protections that restrict all local authorities from asking about people's immigration status. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the measure Tuesday implementing the new rules, which rank among the strongest statewide ...

Basketball 05/22/19, 12:10

The Washington Mystics sit atop the preseason Associated Press WNBA poll for the first time.The runner-up from last season's WNBA Finals received five first-place votes from the 14-person national media panel Wednesday. It's the first time in the four-year history ...

U.S. 05/21/19, 17:34

Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democrat from Washington, signed a bill into law on Tuesday that allows the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burials and cremations. It allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body, ...

Enviroment 05/21/19, 16:51

Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that provides $750,000 to study how to best help impacted communities if the four federal dams on the Snake River are breached.The four dams are blamed for reducing salmon numbers on the Snake ...

U.S. 05/21/19, 00:13

A small group of inmates, disproportionately black, are set to stay in Washington state prisons for life — left out of the latest in a multi-year wave of reforms easing tough-on-crime "three strikes" laws around the U.S.At least 24 states ...