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Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin - known as the birthplace of the GOP - to campaign against former president Donald Trump in the Democratic nominee’s most emphatic display of cross-party support yet.

Three former Memphis police officers were found guilty Thursday of federal witness tampering charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. But all three defendants were acquitted of the more serious charge of violating his civil rights by causing his death.

The state Public Disclosure Commission on Thursday heard the allegations brought against Let’s Go Washington, a Conservative political action group sponsored by billionaire hedge fund manager Brian Heywood. Heywood’s group is the driving force behind three initiatives set to appear on November ballots that, if passed, would overturn a large portion of the state’s Climate Commitment Act, abolish the state’s long-term care tax, and end the capital gains tax.

At least 213 people have died in six states as a result of Helene, which first made landfall as a major hurricane about a week ago. An untold number are still unaccounted for as search-and-rescue crews continue to try to reach remote areas devastated by the storm.

Local organizations were instructed Tuesday to immediately halt referrals to a crucial housing voucher program as overwhelming demand and rising costs sapped federal funding for it, effectively preventing more people in Spokane from getting off the streets.

Four organizations are vying to take over the Spokane Regional Health District’s opioid treatment program.

When special counsel Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump last year with plotting to overturn the 2020 election, the federal indictment filed in Washington had only one defendant: Trump. But in a court filing unsealed Wednesday, Smith drew on the actions of a much larger group to tell the tale of how Trump lost the race but sought to stay in the White House.

More than seven decades ago, the SS United States -- a ship bigger than the Titanic -- made its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, breaking the trans-Atlantic speed record. The ship, once graced by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy, could soon be home to sea turtles, starfish and grouper.

Oct. 3—Federal authorities on Thursday announced 17 arrests made Oct. 2 in western Washington and other states are related to a multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy that was distributing fentanyl to members of the Lummi Nation. Four tribal members died of fentanyl overdose within a period of just four days last September, prompting the Lummi Indian Business Council to declare a state of ...

Even some two centuries after Charles Darwin visited, the Galápagos Islands archipelago still retains a true sense of the natural world.

The National Hurricane Center lowered its prediction the season’s next tropical depression or storm would form in the Gulf of Mexico, but Florida is likely to get heavy rain next week whether it develops or not.

In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, Tenn., where dozens of residents were stranded atop a hospital roof as waters rose, it was under 2 percent.

The Israeli military unleashed an intense bombing campaign against an underground bunker near Beirut early Friday in a bid to target Hashem Safieddine, a cousin and the presumed successor of the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to three Israeli officials.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to campaign Thursday in Wisconsin with Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney as Harris looks to emphasize her cross-party support in the final weeks before the November election.