Allegedly based on several characters from his hometown of Weston, Oregon -- the fictional town in Oregon Detour was called "Creston" -- the book caused something of a scandal in Oregon.

A friendly border, spanning a continent, is an immeasurable asset — socially, economically and environmentally. Keeping it requires just a modest use of intelligence. Unfortunately the Trump Administration is neither modest nor intelligent.

“Chilling the lawyers who represent those people hurts the rule of law because when the government can’t be legally opposed, the law provides no protections to anyone, and you start to live in an autocracy.”

No one can lie like Trump. Trump will abolish the entire concept of truth. I have several duplicity name thoughts — for boys, Mendacious, DuPlicit, and Falisfyfire. For girls, Perfidious, Prevaricature. Farbricature.

Republicans who were looking for bipartisan cooperation on major issues of budgeting and taxation have been largely disappointed thus far.

The Hong Kong student no longer participates in class discussions and is reassessing her post-graduation plans of remaining in the U.S. “I’ve got to be really careful where I tread,” the student said. “I am just very much scared about what I say, what I do.” She has also chosen to opt out of a trip to Canada with friends out of fear of not being able to return to the U.S. 

The watchdog group Accountable.US terms Trump’s crypto activity alone “the most nakedly corrupt scheme of self-enrichment in US presidential history.”

When filing closed last week, voters received a look at candidates for this year’s local elections; none appeared far from the mainstream. Ballots will be sent July 18 for the Aug. 5 primary.

When the plan was underway, $200,000 was to be delivered within five days. The police and F.B.I. were of course notified.

A sudden substitution of the name of Washington replaced "Columbia" in Congress, and the name of the new territory stuck.

Within minutes of entering the village of Santa Vittoria in Matenano, we knew we had found our place.

Republicans in Washington have set their sights – once again – on defunding public media. On May 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the...

The former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a priest for nearly 43 years, has studied in Rome and spent two decades ministering in Peru — he holds dual Peruvian and American citizenships — and lately at the Vatican vetting appointment of bishops.

Hundreds are getting injured, and the numbers aren't being reliably reported.

The dashing Mario Cavaradossi (tenor Rame Lahaj), certainly looked the part of the Byronic hero, but his voice betrayed some reticence. “Recondita armonia” came off sounding a bit like an audition piece, without the ardor suggested by the music.

If increasing births is a Trump aim, it is hard to imagine worse incentives for having babies than the contradictory actions of the Trump administration, slashing pro-family spending.

How do you deal with a president of dictatorial tendencies, an outsized ego, sense of grandiosity, and the expectation of absolute loyalty? There are tested formulas.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, gloated by telling the media, “Big Law continues to bend the knee to President Trump because they know they were wrong, and he looks forward to putting their pro bono legal concessions toward implementing his America First agenda.”

Vance should know that it was not the “Chinese peasants” who stole jobs from the Americans; rather, it was American companies that placed orders of their products with Chinese manufacturers.

By the late 1970s, The Donut House had established itself as a central gathering place for the local populace, particularly wayward youth.

He will be replaced by Fr. Gary Lazzeroni. In a letter announcing the transition, Catholic Archbishop Paul Etienne described Lazzeroni as “a wonderful priest who will diligently and faithfully serve you and your parish family.”

The backstory was similar -- a rich foreign power trying and failing to suppress an insurgency in a country it didn’t really know.

When doubt of everything is pervasive and corrosive, there are other things that we aren’t able to build or even maintain very well. Like trust among people. Like character that makes you sure you can trust someone.

We offer this selection of victors from this year’s session with the caveat that we know very little about Gov. Bob Ferguson’s enthusiasm for the veto pen.

In time, the great western lands and waters attracted Nordics to familiar professions: dairying, logging, fishing, mining, and village businesses. During the late 1880s Scandinavians found their way to the Pacific Northwest.

Chances are that many who rushed out to buy Melinda French Gates’ new book, The Next Day: Transitions, Change and Moving Forward expected to...

The Harvard- and Oxford-educated Mark Carney had never run for public office, but Canadians opted for the smartest kid on the block.

Rich Berner served as the first head of the University of Washington Archives and Manuscripts Division.

He’s trying to dominate or dismantle practically every institution in America—Congress, universities, the federal bureaucracy, independent federal agencies, the Federal Reserve, the states, law firms, the media and foundations whose activities he opposes.

The Senate is about relationships, and Cantwell’s collaboration with colleague Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has been fascinating to watch.