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Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.  

MGM Resorts says its relationship with Bruno Mars is one of “mutual respect” and “Any speculation otherwise is completely false; he has no debt with MGM.”

A Coeur d’Alene jury convicted a former Idaho State Police trooper Tuesday of murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide.

JERUSALEM – On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

PepsiCo Inc. has reached an agreement to become the exclusive provider of beverages at all Subway sandwich shops in the US, replacing rival Coca-Cola Co. as the drink supplier to one of the nation’s largest chains.

The Federal Reserve entered 2024 riding high, buoyed by six months of encouraging inflation reports, and signaling three interest rate cuts this year. Just a little bit later, the story isn’t looking so clear-cut.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his sixth visit to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in October, as tensions persist between Washington and the Israelis over the conduct of the fighting and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. Blinken, who has been traveling in Europe and Asia since Thursday, will extend his trip and make stops in Saudi Arabia and Egypt ...

All the major indicators of climate change smashed historic records last year, with some rising so steeply that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization warned they were “off the charts.”

Good-for-you sodas. Regenerative everything. Snacks, snacks, snacks. The country's largest food industry trade show, held last week, offered a glimpse into the grocery store's rising stars, wannabes and still-hot trends.

The city of Spokane received an unexpected gift from the federal government – the “soaring, canopied” U.S. Pavilion at Expo ’74.

Don Duffy is leaving the Panhandle Health District, which covers five North Idaho counties, after a decade and three years at the helm during COVID-19. Panhandle Health has broad services: Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer water quality protection, nutrition services and operation of primary care clinics – one each of its counties. Duffy was the district's incident commander during the pandemic. Duffy said he didn’t choose a briefly-held masking mandate its board of health implemented that was largely ignored by the public. In hindsight, he thinks more focus should have gone toward vulnerable seniors in health care facilities. Leaving May 24, Duffy plans to run a medical consulting practice.

Those who knowingly share digitally altered sexually explicit photos can now face criminal charges under a bill Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law. That law will also allow victims to sue people who share fabricated intimate images. 

Like a nest housing an egg, Ravi Waran’s cupped hand cradled a white ping-pong ball. After a couple of deliberate bounces on the corner of the table in front of him, his face inches from the ball, he tossed it into the air. Eyes locked, his paddle made contact and shot it toward opponent Nick Dotson.

Shanté Payne, teacher and adviser at West Valley High School, won two awards Monday, not for what she does directly, but what she allows her students to do.

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump accused Jews who vote for Democrats of hating their religion and Israel, reviving and escalating a claim he made as president that Jewish Democrats were disloyal.

Voters in the West Bonner School District will decide whether to pass a one-year $4.68 million levy in the May 21 primary election.

Troopers subdued a vehicle driving the wrong way on Interstate 90 by forcing it onto a concrete barrier at about 2:30 p.m. Monday.