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WASHINGTON – The mood at the U.S. Capitol was grim and tense on Thursday, as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

DAYTON – If the hospital in this historic southeast Washington town has to close, Acadia Murphey thinks the town will “probably die along with it.”

Millions of dollars worth of political TV ads are expected to start airing Tuesday in an effort to sway Californians on a November ballot measure seeking to send more Democrats to Congress and counter President Donald Trump and the GOP agenda, according to television airtime purchases. The special-election ballot measure — Prop. 50 — will likely shape control of the U.S. House of ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will fight to bring more honesty to elections in the United States by doing away with mail-in ballots and voting machines.

The din of 200 protesters outside was imperceptible in the Davenport Grand event room, where hundreds of Republican lawmakers and key supporters gathered for the biggest re-election fundraiser yet for freshman Congressman Michael Baumgartner.

As Spokane immigrant Alberto Lovo Rojas sits in Tacoma’s Northwest Immigration Detention Center, there are times when he will laugh with his friends who can only visit him through a window.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michael Baumgartner returned home to Spokane on Monday from a weeklong visit to Israel, his fifth trip to the country and his first as a member of Congress.

Transgender and nonbinary people are now allowed to receive passports matching their gender identity after an executive order from President Donald Trump previously forced binary gender markers.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray waited three decades to become the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of the most sought-after roles in Congress and one that gives undeniable benefits to the Washington state voters who first sent her to D.C. in 1992.

WASHINGTON – A wheat grower from Spokane County visited the Capitol this week to drum up support for glyphosate, a widely used weed killer that was targeted in a May report commissioned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

LENORE, Idaho – If the saying, “You are what you eat,” is true, the people of the Nez Perce Tribe would be salmon – at least they would have been a century ago.

WASHINGTON – Three Republicans who represent the Inland Northwest in the House said they want the Trump administration to release more information about deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as the chamber began its summer break on Wednesday, a day earlier than scheduled, amid controversy over the so-called “Epstein files.”

Since the four Lower Snake River dams were completed, the economic benefits they provide have been in tension with their impact on the salmon and steelhead that hatch above the dams and must return there from the ocean to spawn before they die. After the Biden administration and Northwest Democrats took tentative steps toward the potential of breaching the dams in hopes of restoring dwindling salmon runs, President Donald Trump's return to the White House seems to have foreclosed that possibility – at least for now.

WASHINGTON – Northwest public radio and television stations were bracing for the fallout after an overnight vote by House Republicans to rescind about $9 billion in funding Congress had already approved for foreign aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public radio and TV stations across the country.

WASHINGTON – Just about every time Rep. Dan Newhouse posts on Facebook, the comments start pouring in with the same question from his constituents across central Washington.