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Former president Donald Trump took charge of the Republican National Committee this week with the political equivalent of shock and awe - leaving dozens out of work, revamping strategic priorities and raising fears among some former officials about the party’s future support for down-ballot candidates.

When the owners of two New York canine cafes announced they were closing last month, it was a shock to their customers. So much, in fact, they refused to accept it.

Republicans and Democrats squeezed former special counsel Robert K. Hur for more than four hours Tuesday, trying to get him to either condemn President Biden as a crook, say former president Donald Trump’s treatment of classified documents was worse or admit his own purported failings in an investigation into whether the sitting president broke the law in handling classified papers.

The man who died in a Northwest Spokane house fire last week intentionally ignited the fire after an argument with his roommates and retreated to the bathroom where firefighters found him dead, according to the Spokane Fire Department.

Local veterans advocates praised the Department of Veterans’ Affairs decision to expand coverage of in vitro fertilization to unmarried veterans and those in same-sex relationships amid uproar about the availability of the fertility treatment across the country.

It’s the last call for Dial-A-Buoy, a longtime phone service that has provided hundreds of thousands of callers with potentially lifesaving coastal weather and water information.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said Tuesday that he will not serve out the rest of his term and will instead vacate his seat in Congress at the end of next week, further narrowing an already razor-thin House Republican majority.

Spokane Valley investigators are looking to identify a car they suspect to be involved in a pedestrian hit-and-run, according to a news release.

A 36-year-old Spokane woman who liked to spend her free time teaching her daughter to ride a bike moonlighted as an “enforcer” for a Mexican drug organization, attorneys said Tuesday.

Hundreds of people were possibly exposed to measles after a child with the virus was seen at a Northern California hospital, officials said.

The body of a man was found Monday on Washington state Route 27.

Russia faced a wave of Ukrainian drone attacks including against oil refineries and reported fierce fighting with insurgents who’d crossed the border vowing to take the war to President Vladimir Putin.

FBI agents on Monday raided a federal women's prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse it was known among inmates and workers as the "rape club." The action coincided with the ouster of the new warden from the federal correctional institution in Dublin.  

Hezbollah launched more than a hundred missiles at Israeli military sites in one of the Lebanon-based group’s heaviest assaults in recent months, threatening to escalate an already simmering conflict.

Many planned US solar factories probably won’t be built as cheap imports from Chinese companies push global cell and panel prices so low that even federal subsidies can’t sustain domestic plants, a report warns.

United Airlines Holdings Inc. has told Boeing Co. to stop building 737 Max 10 jets for the carrier, opting to switch to a smaller variant and the rival Airbus SE A321 until the US planemaker can pull the stretched single-aisle through its long-delayed certification.