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Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Israeli government to hold a new election in a speech warning that Israel risks becoming an international “pariah” under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing cabinet.

After a tumultuous year with a budget shortfall from a failed levy and recalls of two trustees, the West Bonner School Board is preparing to run another levy, this time with a few tweaks.

As Congress weighs a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok, former Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Thursday he is assembling an investor group that will try to purchase the China-based company.

Steep discounts have become normal for office space across the United States as the pandemic trends of hybrid and remote work have persisted, hollowing out urban centers that were once bustling with workers. But the losses are hitting more than just commercial real estate investors. 

SpaceX’s powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket completed a more successful third orbital test flight from Texas on Thursday morning with no explosive endings on the way up that marred the first two test flights in 2023.

Vice President Harris traveled to Minnesota on Thursday to visit a Planned Parenthood health center that provides abortions in what is believed to be the first time an American president or vice president has toured such a facility while in office.

Two years after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, many in Russia have reason to feel the wartime economy is working well for them in a setback for Western sanctions designed to pit the populace against the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin.

The Biden administration has underscored to lawmakers its $6.5 billion in priorities to replenish U.S. arms stockpiles, replacing weapons already sent to Ukraine and allowing for more to be provided, according to a Defense Department document sent to Capitol Hill.

Dick Redinger wanted to buy a birthday present for his mother. The 10-year-old asked his dad to take him shopping.

Q. You have written that putting Vicks VapoRub on the soles of the feet can stop a nighttime cough. That’s pure fluff or maybe written as an ad for Vicks. You haven’t bothered to provide any scientific information to support this claim.

Why were Spokane Mayor David H. Rodgers and his wife invited to Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman’s “Mayor’s Inaugural Ball” in Seattle?

The list of achievements that Kristine Hoover has amassed in her time at Gonzaga University is lengthy.

We see a lot of acute back pain this time of year, sometimes from slipping on ice, snow sports and just being inactive. Sometimes it’s been building up for a while with repeated stress and strain, then you are doing some seemingly harmless activity like picking up a newspaper and crunch - your back is stiff and painful. Those flares of back pain can put everything in life on hold and create anxiety about what is wrong. Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care or miss work. In fact, back and neck pain are the leading cause of disability and affect 85% of adults in their lifetimes.

Police are asking for help to catch a burglar who broke into the Spokane Children’s Theatre, spent a couple hours inside and then made off with thousands of dollars in valuables early Tuesday morning.

The death of a former Boeing employee who had raised concerns about lapses at a South Carolina factory has renewed attention on the aerospace giant’s long history of facing allegations of the kinds of quality control issues that came to light after a piece of an Alaska Airlines jet fell off midflight in January.

The death of a nonbinary teen who collapsed a day after an altercation at a high school in Owasso, Oklahoma, has been ruled a suicide, according to a one-page summary report released Wednesday by the state’s chief medical examiner.

Spokane’s city-employed prosecutors will receive a 10% pay increase this year and another at least 5.1% bump in 2025, after the Spokane City Council on Monday approved a two-year contract with the prosecutor’s union.