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Sonja Krawesky was searching through a box of old phone cases, fake mustaches and rip-off Oscar statues at an Ontario discount store in November when she found something that looked out of place.

 The biggest storm of the winter walloped Southern California on Thursday, but by Friday morning conditions were improving as the storm subsided.

The Justice Department on Friday filed a motion to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, leaving it to a federal judge to decide the fate of a case that has ignited a dramatic standoff between the Trump administration and veteran prosecutors.

​WASHINGTON — A federal judge imposed a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s executive order freezing all foreign assistance funding. Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the preliminary injunction Thursday, ordering a temporary end to the freeze on foreign assistance spending agreements that were in existence before Jan. 20 at the ...

Paramount Global and Google's YouTube TV agreed to a short-term contract extension late Thursday, keeping CBS and other networks available as the two media companies worked to negotiate a new distribution agreement.

Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital after a case of bronchitis persisted for more than a week, a Vatican spokesman said on Friday.

President Donald Trump is embarking on what may be his most disruptive action yet for the global economy by broadening his grievances to how other countries choose to tax and regulate.

The polar vortex is coming back. After a half-month hiatus, frigid air will again surge across the United States beginning this weekend through next week, as the unusually cold blob of air dips southward, covering various parts of the country by Tuesday.

US retail sales slumped in January by the most in nearly two years, indicating an abrupt pullback by consumers after a spending spree in the closing months of 2024.

The 24-year-old suspect in Thursday's vehicle attack in Munich confessed to intentionally crashing his car into a trade union rally, and investigators believe he acted out of an "Islamist motive," a senior Munich public prosecutor said on Friday.

Vladimir Putin is assembling a heavyweight team with decades of experience in high-stakes negotiations to face off against U.S. President Donald Trump’s representatives for a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

While President Donald Trump has been in office less than a month, the costs of some consumer goods and services are trending up.

Starting in 1961, a sculpture by revered Spokane artist Harold Balazs graced the wall behind the altar at the Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church as a symbol of a timeless expression of faith.

A bouquet, in any form, is an expression of emotions, said Susie Matteson, former owner of Peters and Sons Flowers and Gifts.

From 1975: The Spokane YMCA building on Havermale Island reopened after being leased to Expo ’74 during the fair.

A meander through Cheney High School’s halls means passing by dozens of classrooms to entertain the senses: like the dissonance of band class or the squeaking of sneakers on the gym floor. But only one amuses the olfactory system with an enticing aroma of eucalyptus, flowering stock and roses.