October 9, 2024, 1:30pm Latest News
The U.S. has a unique system for electing a president, the Electoral College. In modern times, it has put disproportionate voting power in the hands of a few states that are fairly evenly divided politically. Read story
October 9, 2024, 12:41pm Election
Defenders of Washington state’s carbon fees have filled television with ads saying that Initiative 2117, to repeal the Climate Commitment Act, would make traffic congestion worse — despite the fact carbon-fee money doesn’t go toward state highways. Read story
October 9, 2024, 8:37am Nation & World
Nearly a decade into the Trump Era of politics, less than a month from his third Election Day as the Republican candidate for president and there is still remarkably little consensus within the media about how best to cover Donald Trump. Read story
October 9, 2024, 8:35am Politics
Donald Trump is holding rallies on Wednesday in pivotal Pennsylvania while Vice President Kamala Harris prepares for another visit to the West — even as Hurricane Milton menaces Florida and threatens to overshadow presidential campaigning. Read story
October 9, 2024, 8:26am Latest News
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday were holding their first call in weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursion into Lebanon and considers how to respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack. Read story
October 9, 2024, 8:24am Health
“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.” Read story
October 9, 2024, 8:23am Latest News
The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday. Read story
October 9, 2024, 7:45am Election
Brian Heywood, the Redmond millionaire behind ballot initiatives that seek to overturn or weaken recently enacted social and environmental legislation on the November ballot, will appear in Bellingham to speak at an election forum. Read story
