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The Washington Supreme Court will issue the final say on a voter initiative passed last November that took aim at Washington’s natural gas and energy policies.

In an order Wednesday, Chief Justice Justice Debra Stephens...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read is set to have her car finally returned to her from the Massachusetts State Police, months after a jury cleared her of using the vehicle to kill her Boston Police officer boyfriend.

Read’s 2021 ...Read more

Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the U.S. illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.

The U.S. government violated Harvard�...Read more

The economy does better when Americans trust the Federal Reserve, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said Wednesday, and that means keeping politics out of the central bank’s work.

Speaking at a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of America’s most ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit.

Trump’s ...Read more

Britt Robertson is pregnant.

The 35-year-old actress and her husband Paul Floyd have announced via social media that they're expecting their first child together.

Alongside photos from their wedding day and a recent ...Read more

Emma Myers felt "so excited" about Lady Gaga's appearance in Wednesday.

The 39-year-old pop star appears in season two of the hit Netflix show, and Emma has admitted to being caught off-guard by Gaga's casting.

Speaking ...Read more

Danielle Fishel's cancer battle inspired her to compete on Dancing with the Stars.

The 44-year-old actress was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, and after undergoing treatment, Danielle started to look at life in an ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida is set to push for an end to all state vaccine mandates, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced at a news conference Wednesday.

For decades, the state has required numerous vaccines ...Read more

Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been at most several thousand startup tech companies across the U.S. that have achieved unicorn status — crossing the $1 billion valuation.

Eric Lefkofsky, 55, the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Amid growing angst, anxiety and even annoyance over the continued sketchy details surrounding the Trump administration’s threats to deploy forces into Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday said he expects ...Read more

Cloud computing giant Oracle is laying off 101 employees in Seattle, less than a month after reducing its local workforce.

The cuts from the Austin, Texas-based company, disclosed Tuesday in a state regulatory filing, are...Read more

President Trump this week said he hadn’t heard the rumors about his death over Labor Day weekend until a reporter brought it up in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

But his eldest son, who was aware of the claims going viral ...Read more

Next time a Starbucks barista tells you that your favorite latte flavor is out of stock, blame artificial intelligence.

The Seattle-based coffee giant said Wednesday that it is embracing AI technology to keep track of ...Read more

Three years after testing a handful of vehicles in Bellevue, self-driving car company Waymo plans to launch in the Seattle area.

San Francisco-based Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, announced Tuesday it's expanding...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some lawmakers sounded optimistic on Wednesday that their colleagues may soon be willing to curb their own stock trading, as they unveiled bipartisan legislation they had hammered out.

The measure is the ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The wife and daughter of former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines deny any relationship with District Judge Kevin Mullins, according to grand jury transcripts.

Mullins, 54, was shot and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Wednesday to meet with families and victims of last week’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School, which left two children dead and injured 21 ...Read more

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States would lose their deportation protections and work permits under Temporary Protected Status by next week....Read more