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Washington Republicans who already marked and mailed their presidential primary for Nikki Haley and Democrats who voted for Dean Phillips might be wondering what will happen to those votes Tuesday night after each dropped out of their respective races last week.

The drive to Treehouse Point, half an hour east of Seattle, takes you through a forest fit for hobbits, crowded full of fir, spruce, cedar, maple and hemlock. Alongside the Raging River – yes, that’s its name – you get to a gate, punch in the secret code and enter a realm where it’s perfectly normal to sleep in a tree, surrounded by clever carpentry and birdsong.

In her rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told a story about a Mexican woman who was a victim of sex trafficking at the age of 12, laying blame at the feet of the current administration. The story, while wrenching, was highly misleading.

Voters in Ireland rejected two proposed changes to the country's constitution that would have removed language about women's duties being in the home and broadened the definition of family beyond marriage.

The Justice Department is looking into the Jan. 5 blowout of a portion of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner operated by Alaska Airlines, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Two dogs died after one of them accidentally started a fire inside a duplex Saturday in Deer Park.

A fire destroyed a house and sent the homeowner to the hospital with burns early Saturday morning north of Suncrest.

The two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent who were killed in a helicopter crash Friday in southern Texas were on a flight that was considered a routine mission supporting federal border operations, officials said Saturday.

Former president Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday, continuing his embrace of autocratic world leaders as he seeks reelection for the American presidency.

As the U.S. military rushes to assemble a temporary port on the Gaza Strip coast, daunting practical challenges to the seaborne humanitarian effort to stave off famine in the territory are becoming increasingly apparent. The obstacles include logistics, cost and security issues, diplomats and aid officials say.

Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” in detention that led to Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022 and committed crimes against humanity during its crackdown on the protests that followed, an independent U.N. fact-finding mission has said.

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would a single bout buy you protection from future cases?

When the eastern Ukraine city of Avdiivka fell to Russian forces three weeks ago, Kyiv and its allies feared Moscow's troops could quickly press ahead toward strategic military hubs and population centers. But after making rapid gains in the subsequent days, Russian assaults have stalled.

Throngs of tourists swarm Suffolk Street day after day to glimpse the pride of Dublin that stands outside St. Andrew’s Church: a statue of Molly Malone, the folkloric fishmonger commemorated in the city’s unofficial anthem “Cockles and Mussels.” Many of them do more than look.

In December 2018, a team of U.S. law enforcement agents flew to Amsterdam to interview a witness in a yearslong criminal investigation into Caterpillar, which had avoided billions of dollars of income taxes by shifting profits to a Swiss subsidiary.

By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at bay, creating dry conditions for fires that have engulfed hundreds of square miles of the rainforest that do not usually burn.

The Philippines has been striking new defense agreements with other countries at a rapid clip, seeking to build what officials here call a “network of alliances” that could deter Chinese aggression in disputed waters.

A few weeks ago, I shared a true story with you about my failed asphalt shingle roof. If you remember, it had a 30-year warranty, and after just 12 years it began to experience catastrophic failure. Looking back now, I shared the wrong photograph with you. I showed you a picture of my daughter’s new roof with copper strips on it. I should have shown you the photo of the Tilton, New Hampshire, post office roof. That photo accompanies this column.

Mexico was one of only 10 foreign countries to commit to an Expo ’74 pavilion, but now the Mexico Pavilion seemed to be in jeopardy – to say the least.