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Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle more than 10,000 cases accusing it of hiding the cancer risks of its Zantac heartburn drug, according to people familiar with the deal, the biggest of the litigation.

The US has revoked licenses allowing Huawei Technologies Co. to buy semiconductors from Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, further tightening export restrictions against the Chinese telecom equipment maker.

US mortgage rates fell for the first time since late March, giving some relief to homebuyers and lifting applications for purchases and refinancing.

 Cocoa and coffee have become intertwined this year, with extreme weather and shortages fueling rallies of both commodities that test the limits of traders.

Jennifer Wunderlich can’t recall the last time Huy Fong Foods’ Sriracha sauce was in stock at her workplace, a New York-based specialty confections and gourmet food distributor.

The Spokesman-Review reported that “much of Spokane’s business community now spends its lunch hour at Expo.”

Take out your T-shirts and shorts. The season’s first surge of 80-degree weather is set to spread across the Inland Northwest starting Friday and sticking around through this weekend.

Since they hit it off on a blind date in 1997, Nikki Otero Lockwood and Bill Lockwood were romantically compatible.

Spokane County is poised to pour $5.2 million into hands-on medical treatment to detox and treat drug addicts as elected officials try to slow the deepening fentanyl crisis.

May 7—A tense standoff took place at the University of Washington Tuesday night between pro-Palestinian encampment protesters and fans of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after the conservative activist held an event on campus as part of his "Live Free Tour." Leading up to the event, people on both sides of the political spectrum feared the possibility of violence. The UW Muslim Student ...

When Farah Taylor was growing up in her father’s lakeside house, she and her brother would force their dad to watch “dive competitions” off the dock for hours until the sun went down. He never complained.

WASHINGTON — Last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would bring forward a motion to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker when the House reconvened Monday evening, but those plans have been on hold following a series of meetings with the House leader. Greene, R-Rome, and Johnson, who met behind closed doors for two hours Monday, sat down again Tuesday. But neither side announced a ...

Buck Knives will unveil its completely remodeled headquarters and manufacturing facility this weekend in Post Falls during a re-opening event.

A 34-year-old Rathdrum man will spend at least two years in prison for killing his 19-year-old cousin in a car crash last summer.

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance challenged the U.S. government in a legal filing Tuesday over a new law forcing the sale or ban of the social media giant, igniting a high-stakes court battle in Washington that could prove to be an existential fight for one of the world’s most popular apps.