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The passing of country music icon Dolly Parton at age 80 has prompted official memorials and a renewed push to restore state funding for her Imagination Library program in Washington.
Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer, her family said. The singer-songwriter behind "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" leaves an 11-Grammy catalog, Dollywood, and a literacy program that has mailed more than 300 million free books to children.
Joshua Aviles is more than 250 days into a record deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when Border Patrol arrested his father in Key West. The Navy has said the carrier is likely bound for Naval Base Kitsap.
Two days after trade talks with Canada collapsed and 50% tariffs took effect, Trump broke his silence on Truth Social. Carney had already laid out, in unusually sharp terms, exactly what killed the deal — and Washington state's Patty Murray says Trump owes Canada an apology.
Trade talks between the U.S. and Canada collapsed overnight, triggering 50% tariffs under a never-before-used 1930s law. Washington state's Canadian border economy is directly exposed.
A Security Aviation charter crashed near Cape Newenham's Cold War-era radar site after two missed approaches in fog, killing two Army Corps of Engineers employees, four contractors and two pilots.
A CENTCOM commander's visit, a defense secretary's dismissal and a president's remark deepened a Washington, D.C. fight over the carrier's conditions. The Navy has said it is likely to become Bremerton's second permanent carrier.
Hurricane Lala reached Category 1 strength Saturday, cutting power to nearly 24,000 Hawaii County customers and flooding parts of the Big Island in its first serious hurricane threat in 155 years.
Trump signed two narrower executive orders restricting birthright citizenship on Aug. 6. Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Illinois are challenging them in the same Seattle federal court that first blocked his broader 2025 order.
The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 11 on a 90-6 vote, but the House already passed a different one through Dec. 4 without the new provisions, leaving a fourth shutdown fight unresolved before Sept. 30.
The U.S. shed 23,000 jobs in July and revised away 103,000 more from prior months, even as unemployment fell for the wrong reason. Here's what it means for the Fed's September rate call.
President Trump reportedly demanded to know why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had not told him U.S. missile interceptor stockpiles were far more depleted than he believed, as separate diplomacy over the Strait of Hormuz shows new signs of progress.
Washington and 24 other states sued the Trump administration Monday over new 10-12.5% Section 301 tariffs, the third such challenge in five months after two earlier tariff schemes were struck down in court.
A gunman killed three people and wounded several others outside a week-old In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, before dying of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police have given conflicting casualty counts, and an armed bystander's intervention is still under investigation.
Trump says the U.S. is holding off on new strikes against Iran after 'the perimeters of a deal' were agreed, but tankers were hit near Hormuz hours later. The Pentagon's own destroyer shortage reaches into Washington: Naval Station Everett's warships and Bremerton's dry-docked carrier are part of the same strained fleet.
The American Red Cross declared only its second-ever national blood supply crisis this week, and Bloodworks Northwest, the separate nonprofit supplying nearly every hospital in western Washington, declared its own Code Red emergency days earlier.
The National Urban League's 50th State of Black America report says policy changes are widening economic and political risks for Black Americans and could affect workers across the country.
The FOMC voted 9-3 to keep the federal funds rate at 3.5%–3.75%. Hammack, Kashkari, and Logan wanted a quarter-point increase as inflation stays above 2%.
Thirty-four large fires are burning across Oregon, Washington is fighting its own record fire near Nespelem, and the two states have already topped 1.3 million combined acres burned, exceeding the ten-year average for a full season with the most dangerous month still ahead.
The Defense Department's casualty database added 204 wounded troops overnight after splitting the five-month Iran war into two separately tracked operations. The revision lands the same weekend Trump paused a bombing campaign a top general said had run out of targets.
Trump paused a 13-night Iran bombing campaign after advisers warned wider strikes would drain Patriot missile stockpiles, as Netanyahu heads to Washington.
The Trump administration issued new tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on over 80 countries, citing failures to enforce forced labor import prohibitions.
New data shows Americans split on economic trust between parties as Trump's approval hits 34 percent and Red Sea conflict drives oil to $100.
