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Former president Donald Trump is expected to enlist Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, according to four people familiar with the talks.

The Biden administration is rolling out an executive order to strengthen women’s health research standards across federal agencies and prioritize its funding in an effort to close the gap on long-standing disparities.

It’s a sultry March evening in the suburbs of Mumbai and a group of men hovers anxiously at the back gate of a startup called Yotta Data Services. They pace, pause and fret. It’s approaching midnight, 10 hours late, when a truck pulls up with the precious cargo they’ve been waiting for: semiconductors from Nvidia Corp.

For Rick Plympton, there’s no going back to the pre-COVID-19 economy. The chief executive officer of precision-lens maker Optimax Systems Inc. sees “shifting sands” in many aspects of his business.

Between 25,000 and 30,000 people visited the Expo ’74 grounds for the last time before it would be closed off until opening day in May.

Stretching from the Model T to the Model A era, the Universal Auto Company was a Ford car dealership that began operation on Havermale Island. The name was likely borrowed from Ford’s nickname for the Model T as the “universal car,” referencing the car as a platform that could serve as a passenger car or adapted as a truck or cargo van. Fifteen million Model Ts were sold between 1908 and 1926.

Here’s a rundown of construction projects that might affect Spokane drivers this week.

For the second year in a row, a group of lawmakers and activists tried to get a bill passed that would reduce the maximum allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers in Washington from 0.08% to 0.05%. 

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The annual daylight saving ritual has passed and it serves yet again to remind us how precious our sleep truly is. Or at least most of us will admit to how hard it hits to lose an hour of regularly scheduled snooze time.

North Korea fired at least one suspected ballistic missile in a defiant show of force that coincided with a visit to Seoul by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is taking part in a Summit for Democracy being held in the capital.

Revelers this St. Patrick’s Day were greeted with an unseasonably warm weekend that either broke or tied temperature records in multiple regional locations, according to the National Weather Service.

Dozens gathered for a Selection Sunday watch party at the Spokane Arena, holding their breath to find out which eight NCAA men’s basketball teams will visit Spokane – the result of a yearslong effort to lure the NCAA back to Spokane as a March Madness host city.

Elon Musk released the raw computer code behind his version of an artificial intelligence chatbot Sunday, an escalation by one of the world's richest men in a battle to control the future of AI.

Exceptionally warm March weather propelled cherry blossoms in the nation's capital to their second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records Sunday, reflecting the growing influence of human-caused climate change on the famed trees.

For the third time, Navtaj Singh took the top spot against the best spellers in the Inland Northwest. He will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., at the end of May.

A dispute over border security funding threatens to force a shutdown of vast swaths of the federal government in less than a week, as Congress and the White House struggled Sunday to reach a deal on long-term spending legislation.

A dramatic police chase in California ended in the ocean late Saturday night after a woman, with two dogs in the backseat, drove her car straight into the waves just south of the Venice pier.