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SEATTLE (AP) -- A judge on Thursday overturned President Donald Trump's decision to fire the court-appointed top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle, the latest development in a legal tug-of-war over the administration's efforts to control who occupies the powerful Justice Department posts.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The number of ballots rejected for late postmarks has soared in the vote-by-mail states of Washington and Oregon, according to newly released data highlighting concerns about recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations ahead of this fall's pivotal midterm election.
SEATTLE (AP) -- President Donald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerful positions.
Former Idaho Gov. and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has died at age 74, his family said in a written statement Saturday.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump's efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.
SEATTLE (AP) -- First-term Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded his reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson on Thursday, handing another victory to leftist Democrats around the country frustrated with unaffordability, homelessness, public safety and the actions of President Donald Trump's administration.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces a tough reelection fight against progressive activist Katie Wilson as voters in the liberal city recoil from President Donald Trump's second term and question whether the incumbent has done enough to address public safety, homelessness and affordability.
President Donald Trump's efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities -- including Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago -- over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president's authority and who controls the Guard.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Four Democratic-led Western states announced joint recommendations Wednesday about who should be vaccinated for seasonal respiratory viruses, including the flu and COVID-19, saying the Trump administration has jeopardized public health by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) -- Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez gave Democrats a rare win last fall when she defeated a MAGA diehard in a Republican district in southwestern Washington state.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A judge on Thursday rescinded an order that would have required the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mass transit grants for the Seattle area or homelessness services grants for Boston, New York, San Francisco and other local governments.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Trump administration is temporarily blocked from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mass transit grants for the Seattle area or homelessness services grants for Boston, New York, San Francisco and other local governments, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
SEATTLE (AP) -- A judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States under a court order partially blocking the president's efforts to suspend the nation's refugee admissions program.
Marijuana culture's high holiday, known as 4/20, falls this year on Easter Sunday, as well as the last day of Passover, meaning cannabis fans can celebrate in some unusual ways, including an "Easter nug hunt" in Los Angeles, kosher-style THC gummies in New York and a "blaze and praise" drag brunch in Portland, Oregon.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington and Oregon on Friday became the latest states to ask a court to reject President Donald Trump's efforts to overhaul elections in the U.S., a day after Democratic officials in 19 others filed a similar lawsuit.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Refugee aid groups said in a federal court filing Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration appears to be trying to circumvent a ruling this week that blocked his efforts to suspend the nation's refugee admissions program.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington state Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, won reelection Tuesday.
SEATTLE (AP) -- First-term Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won reelection Saturday in southwestern Washington state's closely watched 3rd Congressional District, surviving a rematch with Republican Joe Kent.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Longtime Democratic Attorney General Bob Ferguson was elected governor of Washington on Tuesday, defeating former U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, a Republican, in a state that's considered a Democratic stronghold.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Among the nation's most closely watched races is a rematch in southwestern Washington's 3rd Congressional District, where first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is defending her seat against Republican Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who has called for the impeachment of President Joe Biden.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Authorities, including the FBI, were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and in nearby Vancouver, Washington, where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Authorities were investigating Monday after early morning fires were set in ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and in nearby Vancouver, Washington, where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
For those conservative voters long turned off by former President Donald Trump's rhetoric, his somewhat softened tone in accepting the Republican nomination Thursday night was a welcome relief.
On a sweltering weekend evening, beneath a clear blue sky, Donald Trump supporters in red "Make America Great Again" hats packed the fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania.
SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. and Canada said Thursday they have agreed to update a six-decade-old treaty that governs the use of one of North America's largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation, and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries.
SEATTLE (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994, has died. He was 79.
KENT, Wash. (AP) -- Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife and ate from a clear plastic tray of Girl Scout cookies melting in the midday sun.