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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SEATTLE (AP) -- A judge on Thursday rescinded an order that would have required the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.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.