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The very first sentence of a blockbuster King County auditor's report released last month contained an eye-popping finding: The county's Department of Community and Human Services awarded more than $1.5 billion in grant funding in 2023-24, up from $22 million in 2019-20. That's an increase of 6,700%. How could spending have increased so drastically? The answer: It didn't. King County Auditor ...

A federal judge late Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from removing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, an early victory in her push to remain on the central bank board while she challenges the president’s authority to dismiss her.

The Department of Energy has made no changes to its longstanding commitment to the environmental cleanup to the Hanford nuclear site, said Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a statement posted online Tuesday.

Washington state is preparing to destroy much of its abortion pill stockpile as 30,000 doses are set to expire at the end of January.

Kitsap County prosecutors on Monday charged a security guard at a local Salvation Army with felonies after he allegedly impersonated an Edmonds police officer at the scene of a fire last week in Bremerton. He had even acted as a backup for another Bremerton police officer earlier at a 7-Eleven near The Salvation Army, according to a Bremerton police report. Michael Scaletta Teates of Olympia ...

After the release of a lewd birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein containing what appeared to be Donald Trump's signature, the White House called the document a fake.

An Orchard Park, New York, police officer found the man in the shoulder of a six-lane road, standing near his crumpled black BMW, arguing with his girlfriend.