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Mar. 13—A federal judge on Friday ruled that most of a Washington state law meant to enhance state oversight of the privately-run immigration detention center in Tacoma is not constitutional. Judge Benjamin H. Settle in U.S. District Court for Western Washington granted a preliminary injunction to the contractor that owns and operates the facility, the GEO Group, hobbling a law passed last ...

Mar. 13—Toby had just moved to Bellingham from Seattle when, in September of last year, he went out of town for work. When he got back, Toby, who asked that his last name be left out to not alert potential burglars of the break-in, and his wife couldn't find their mountain bikes. "I basically found a window pushed through, a door opened and the bikes I guess just kind of got wheeled out," Toby ...

Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the COVID-19 pandemic every day. Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and then lets them romp around at a neighborhood park on the way home. Other times, it's when she gets out the shower at 7 a.m. after a weekday workout.

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.

The Biden administration said Tuesday that it will send an additional $300 million in security assistance to Ukraine, an “extraordinary measure” being taken as President Biden’s request for billions of dollars more remains stalled in Congress.