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VANCOUVER, Wash. – On a Sunday two weeks before Halloween, people flocked from across southwestern Washington to the pumpkin patch and harvest festival at Bi-Zi Farms, on the outskirts of the biggest city in this largely rural corner of the state.

Dozens of volunteers sifted through huge pallets overflowing with 40,000 pounds of pears fresh off a truck from the Wenatchee Valley on Tuesday afternoon at Second Harvest distribution center in Spokane.

President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. Representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday it will hear arguments on December 8 concerning the legality of President Donald Trump's firing of a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission in a major case that tests the scope of presidential power over government agencies designed by Congress to be independent.

Congressman Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, shared no intentions of acquiescing or compromising with Democrats 12 days into a government shutdown that surrounds health care subsidies, he said in a call Sunday with reporters.

Federal law enforcement is looking to further its reach in Spokane, Boise and other cities that lean democratic to further the Trump administration’s goals.

WASHINGTON – As a government shutdown began on Wednesday, Republicans could make a straightforward argument to blame the other party: Democrats are refusing to pass a bill that would simply keep funding the government at current levels until lawmakers can finish writing bipartisan spending bills.

WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats and Republicans from the Northwest blamed each other Tuesday for an imminent government shutdown, as the Senate failed to pass a short-term spending bill amid a fight over health care costs.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Abby Palacios went to a local Mexican restaurant with her niece for dinner when she saw a man with a “Make America Great Again” hat walk in.

WASHINGTON – The mood at the U.S. Capitol was grim and tense on Thursday, as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks a day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

DAYTON – If the hospital in this historic southeast Washington town has to close, Acadia Murphey thinks the town will “probably die along with it.”

Millions of dollars worth of political TV ads are expected to start airing Tuesday in an effort to sway Californians on a November ballot measure seeking to send more Democrats to Congress and counter President Donald Trump and the GOP agenda, according to television airtime purchases. The special-election ballot measure — Prop. 50 — will likely shape control of the U.S. House of ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will fight to bring more honesty to elections in the United States by doing away with mail-in ballots and voting machines.

The din of 200 protesters outside was imperceptible in the Davenport Grand event room, where hundreds of Republican lawmakers and key supporters gathered for the biggest re-election fundraiser yet for freshman Congressman Michael Baumgartner.

As Spokane immigrant Alberto Lovo Rojas sits in Tacoma’s Northwest Immigration Detention Center, there are times when he will laugh with his friends who can only visit him through a window.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Michael Baumgartner returned home to Spokane on Monday from a weeklong visit to Israel, his fifth trip to the country and his first as a member of Congress.

Transgender and nonbinary people are now allowed to receive passports matching their gender identity after an executive order from President Donald Trump previously forced binary gender markers.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray waited three decades to become the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of the most sought-after roles in Congress and one that gives undeniable benefits to the Washington state voters who first sent her to D.C. in 1992.