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Just over four months into President Donald Trump’s second administration, the rate and frequency with which Democratic attorneys general have challenged federal policy has greatly outpaced that of his first term in office.

Spokane has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit from a second woman who was raped by a Spokane Police Department officer in her own home while he was responding to a domestic violence call.

People with measles, a highly contagious disease, are traveling on airplanes, raising concerns about the spread of the respiratory virus as global cases rise and summer travel season gets underway in the United States.

A Deer Park resident died from injuries she sustained last week in a crash on U.S. Highway 2 in Pend Oreille County, according to a Washington State Patrol news release.

Fairfax County police, responding to Sunday’s attack on a Jewish gathering in Boulder, Colorado, said they will increase patrols around synagogues and other places of worship, and D.C. and Montgomery County police said they would continue an already heightened response to a recent act of apparent antisemitic violence in the District.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security released a list of jurisdictions it said defied federal immigration law, including Boise. On Saturday, Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue criticized the list. Now, the department has removed the list from its website. Was Donahue, a Republican who supports Trump, coming to the defense of Boise Mayor Lauren McLean, a ...

Idaho will spend more than $900,000 to renovate its execution chamber to accommodate a firing squad as its lead method, state prison officials told the Idaho Statesman.

Spokane Valley’s public records lawsuit against one of its sitting City Council members could come to a close without a day in court if the council approves a settlement proposal this week.

The Mustangs played the baseball game for Noah. They lost both. And days later, they lost their coach.

A record-high share of Americans want the government to do more to tackle the nation’s problems — but few think the political parties are up to the task, according to new polling.

Fifty priceless artifacts looted from Egypt and Pakistan — and trafficked through Manhattan by two notorious antiquities dealers — have been returned to their home countries, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has announced.

Turns out, buying Bitcoin to boost your share price might not be the corporate panacea that it once seemed.

Wall Street banks are reinforcing their calls that the dollar will weaken further, hit by interest-rate cuts, slowing economic growth and President Donald Trump’s trade and tax policies.

The Trump administration has been including orders for Boeing Co. planes in trade discussions, and that’s helping to restore Bank of America Corp.’s confidence in the stock.

A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semi-automatic rifles in Washington, California and eight other blue states.

Russia and Ukraine wrapped up their latest direct peace talks in Istanbul a day after Kyiv staged one of its boldest aerial attacks inside Russia, destroying long-range bombers and other aircraft.

While watching the dozens of tanks and thousands of soldiers scheduled to parade through the nation’s capital later this month, keep an eye out for a pair of pricked ears and a bushy, white-tipped tail.