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While plowing a wheat field in rural Washington state in the 1990s, William Wallace spotted a gray plane overhead that he believed was releasing chemicals to make him sick. The rancher began to suspect that all white vapor...Read more

WASHINGTON — Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea.

Rather, states should ...Read more

SEATTLE — For years Seattle Public Schools received warnings about math teacher James Johnson for allegedly using profanity and making students uncomfortable.

That was before he punched a student in the face.

Now, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s one thing to be cleared by the president. It’s another to be cleared by the bank.

Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy was pardoned at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term after a ...Read more

MALIBU, Calif. — Wood frames are rising from the ashes of burned-out lots in Pacific Palisades, signaling the start of a new era for the fire-torn community. But down the road in Malibu, the scene is bleak.

Cars wind ...Read more

Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans’ members, a new federal watchdog report says.

The investigators ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is turning to an unconventional approach to lowering drug prices in the United States: striking deals directly with big pharma companies in an attempt to bring U.S. prices in line ...Read more

SEATTLE — It's October. Halloween decorations are up. Leaves are changing colors. Pumpkin spice lattes are back. And it is time to think about floods.

The state has nailed the timing for its flood awareness month, with ...Read more

North Korea said it successfully tested a new hypersonic weapon system in its latest show of force “against potential enemies” as world leaders, including President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, ...Read more

Twenty-two days into the federal government shutdown, an appellate court has granted the Department of Justice’s request to pause a lawsuit over the environmental impact of the Florida Everglades’ makeshift immigration...Read more

The Trump administration announced sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil producers, rolling out its first major package of financial punishments on President Vladimir Putin’s economy as part of a fresh bid to end the war ...Read more

Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani and his chief rival, Andrew Cuomo, tore into each other Wednesday on the debate stage over their respective careers in state government, with both men accusing one another of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the House Democratic Veterans Caucus said in a statement Wednesday that recent comments by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., were “disgusting” and that the former leader of the ultraconservative ...Read more

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese officials are courting podcasters and influencers aligned with Donald Trump as they grow more worried the U.S. leader could undermine the self-ruled democracy’s interests in talks with China,...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Republicans have completed their mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map, placing a Democrat-held seat in the state’s northeastern corner in jeopardy.

The GOP-led state House ...Read more

Early voter turnout exceeds expectations in California’s Nov. 4 special election over redrawing the state’s congressional districts, a Democratic-led effort to counter Republican attempts to keep Congress under GOP ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The University of Virginia became the latest college to strike a deal with the Trump administration, settling civil rights investigations that threatened the school’s federal funding and cost its former ...Read more

OLYMPIA — Republican candidates running for state Senate this year say they have a plan to push back on progressive policies coming out of Olympia: forming a bipartisan coalition of moderates that could work together to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three of the country's most powerful judges met in Pasadena on Wednesday for a rare conclave that could rewrite the legal framework for President Trump's expansive deployment of troops to cities across the ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he anticipated a “similar playbook” playing out in his hometown of San Francisco after Customs and Border Protection deployed 100 agents to the Bay Area on Wednesday, following similar campaigns ...Read more