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Despite their stuffy-sounding name, powder rooms are where designers tend to have the most fun – and so can you. This formal space offers a lower-stakes place to experiment with wild wallpaper or use a natural stone you couldn’t afford to install in an entire kitchen. “We generally subscribe to the idea that less is more, but in a powder room, more may actually be more,” says Carrie Moore, North Carolina-based interior designer and co-founder of Carrie Moore Interior Design. Here’s how to make yours sing.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has selected Chris Wright, the head of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Department of Energy and to serve on a new National Energy Council.

Venezuela’s authoritarian government Saturday released dozens of political prisoners - including some women and children - who were detained in a brutal crackdown on dissent following the country’s presidential election.

A California resident has been infected with the more severe type of mpox virus, the first U.S. case of a virus that has sickened thousands and killed hundreds in an outbreak in Central and Eastern Africa, health officials said Saturday.

PALM BEACH, Fla. – Former congressman Matt Gaetz greeted his admirers Thursday night on the lawn outside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, freshly named as the president-elect’s pick to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer despite an outstanding House investigation into allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl.

Two weeks removed from a set of losses that sent Democratic leaders into a tailspin, the years-long ideological battle between the progressive left and centrists has once again come to a head as both sides fight to shift blame and take the reins of the future direction of the party.

A trial began Monday for two men accused in a crime spree that spanned two Indian reservations in Idaho and Washington, and left two people dead and one tribal police officer injured two years ago.

Ed subscribes to my free weekly newsletter. He lives in western North Carolina, as does his son. His son’s house was flooded by a portion of the trillions of gallons of water Hurricane Helene unleashed on the interior Southeastern U.S.

Homelessness in Spokane Valley parks and public spaces is about to come with more stringent penalties.

Expo ’74’s beneficial effects apparently extended to Spokane’s cultural institutions, especially the Spokane Symphony.

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Julie McKay had a bit of a different trial on her docket Friday: the case of who stole Mary Peabody’s lunch.

The first round of snow for the season could hit the region this weekend, according to the National Weather Service Spokane.

The trailing candidate for an open Washington state Supreme Court seat is urging voters to check that their ballots have been accepted as he looks to close the gap in a race that remains tight more than a week after Election Day.

Two climate activists have been sentenced to more than a year in prison for throwing red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives after vandalizing art exhibits at Washington museums in earlier protests.

The Biden administration has finalized a $6.6 billion grant for the Arizona subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The award will support the construction of three chip factories in Phoenix, the first of which is scheduled to open early next year.