July 12, 2022, 8:08am Politics
Nothing about President Joe Biden’s visit this week to the Middle East is going to be easy. Read story
July 12, 2022, 8:07am Politics
House appropriators in June finished marking up a dozen spending bills for fiscal 2023 that would altogether provide at least $15.6 billion for cybersecurity efforts across federal departments and agencies. Read story
July 11, 2022, 8:42pm Northwest
A 48-year-old South Seattle man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of a hate crime for threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, according to King County prosecutors. Read story
July 11, 2022, 2:47pm Politics
The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a… Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:07am Politics
The new federal law passed in response to a series of mass shootings includes provisions to better incorporate juvenile records into the federal background check system, but states vary greatly in the way they approach access to guns and the background checks themselves. Read story
July 8, 2022, 11:50am Latest News
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to protect access to abortion as he faced mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago. Read story
July 6, 2022, 7:34am Politics
Dozens of Republican representatives are backing a bill that seeks to eliminate a federal tax on firearms and ammunition — which has served as a major source of funding to state wildlife management agencies for 85 years. Read story
July 5, 2022, 7:48pm Politics
A House committee investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol promised revelations in the televised hearings that began last month. Read story
July 5, 2022, 2:57pm Latest News
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen species protections weakened under former President Donald Trump. Read story
July 5, 2022, 12:27pm Life
NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem. Read story
