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Amazon is claiming the nation’s premier product safety agency is unconstitutional, deploying an argument that has found favor with the Trump administration as the company seeks to avoid responsibility for shipping dangerous products to consumers.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – It’s more than a year before Democrats will have a chance to find their way out of the political wilderness in the midterm elections, but voters turned out in droves Thursday to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., rail against the government-slashing policies of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

A longtime Washington resident detained at the federal immigration detention center in Tacoma filed a class-action Thursday that challenges what the lawsuit calls the Tacoma Immigration Court’s policy of refusing to consider releasing people on bond who have lived in the country for years.

President Donald Trump on Friday escalated his administration’s threats against those who destroy Tesla vehicles, pondering on social media whether he should send them to a prison in El Salvador where officials last week sent more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who they allege are members of a violent gang.

The shattering of a hard-fought ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this week sent regional officials scrambling to get Israel and Hamas back to the negotiating table, in a last-ditch effort to salvage months of painstaking diplomacy as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500.

Police and fire authorities are investigating a blaze at an electrical substation that forced the closure of London’s Heathrow Airport for a full day Friday.

Job cuts are coming thick and fast from Volkswagen AG. Just since December, it’s announced plans to reduce its German workforce by 35,000 over five years, to cull 1,900 positions at Porsche and 7,500 at Audi, and to shrink its software business by roughly a third.

Vacuuming floors isn’t often something advertised in a school principal’s job description. It may not be the first task one associates with leading 1,491 students and 83 teachers at a school.

The making of yogurt with milk from Idaho cows is a big business, and it’s now on track to get much bigger. Chobani opened a yogurt plant in Twin Falls in 2012 that it said (and still says) is the world’s largest. Now, with demand for yogurt products rising, the company wants to make even more. So it’s expanding the plant by half, adding jobs, and providing another boost to Idaho’s dairy ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating English the official language of the country, the first time for such a declaration in U.S. history.

From 1975: The Spokane City Council was considering a proposal to supply 500 stray dogs a year to Washington State University’s veterinary medicine school at $15 per dog.

Two Eastern Washington colleges were threatened on March 10 with potential enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment.

A judge sentenced an Idaho man to 25 years in prison this week for grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, according to a press release from the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office.

Police arrested a man in Greeley, Colorado, on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Maria Kapustin last summer.