A bug in Instagram's algorithm systemically shielded Donald Trump from negative hashtags without doing the same for rival Joe Biden, the company confirmed. According to an investigation from the Tech Transparency Project, since at least June, searches for Biden-related content…
Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts "has been a disappointment to conservatives," after Roberts, who was appointed by a Republican president, sided with liberal justices this term in several major cases seen as…
Twitter said on Wednesday it had restricted President Donald Trump's campaign from tweeting after its account shared a video containing false claims about the coronavirus. The tweet, a video of Trump's interview with Fox News in which he said children…
Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he'll call a special session in late August due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mississippi for weeks has been punching above its weight in the wrong coronavirus statistics. After a summer surge, the state with a relatively low population now has the country's fifth-highest recorded case count per 100,000 people, behind only Louisiana, Arizona,…
Joe Biden will no longer accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the Democratic National Convention, officials said Wednesday. Biden will instead accept the Democratic nomination for president from his home state of Delaware, according to the Democratic…
President Donald Trump was still struggling to fully grasp the severity of the coronavirus pandemic during a task force meeting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN. "He still doesn't get it," the…
An initial count of results shows Lori Feagan taking the lead with 10,489 votes to Bob McCaslin's 9,428.
Cori Bush, a progressive activist and veteran of the racial justice protest movement, defeated 20-year incumbent Missouri Rep. William Lacy Clay in a Democratic primary on Tuesday, a stunning victory for the party's insurgent left. The US House seat, based…
Republican incumbent Cathy McMorris Rodgers advanced through Washington's primary election Tuesday night, with just over 50% of the vote.
Democratic incumbent Gov. Jay Inslee and Republican Police Chief Loren Culp have advanced through Tuesday's "top two" primary.
President Donald Trump said the United States’ staggering death toll from coronavirus “is what it is” in a new interview, again giving his administration credit for its response despite ongoing surges in new cases and a human toll that far outpaces that of any other nation.
Washington has been voting-by-mail for more than 15 years now, and that's why the Spokane County Auditor is confident every ballot will be counted correctly in this Primary.
The unemployment benefit that has kept millions afloat amid the worst economic crisis in decades officially expires at midnight. Weekly jobless claims continue to rise. Economic forecasters are warning of another slowdown. The coronavirus has resurged across the country. The…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A working group of Idaho lawmakers has approved legislation creating a liability shield for protection against lawsuits during declared emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic. And they want Republican Gov. Brad Little to call the entire…
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson released a statement saying he will challenge any attempt by the Trump Administration to delay the 2020 election.
Herman Cain, a onetime Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, has died from coronavirus, according to an obituary sent from his verified Twitter account and Newsmax, where he was launching a television show. Cain, 74, was hospitalized…
President Donald Trump explicitly floated delaying November's presidential election on Thursday, lending extraordinary voice to persistent concerns that he would seek to circumvent voting in a contest where he currently trails his opponent by double digits. Trump has no authority…
Inside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta on Thursday, the nation's first Black president -- who has acknowledged there was a Black president only because of what John Lewis sacrificed -- delivered a eulogy for the civil rights…
Senate Republicans formally unveiled a roughly $1 trillion stimulus proposal this week, offering a starting point for negotiations with Democrats over what will likely become Congress's last major economic response to the pandemic. The $600 federal boost to unemployment benefits…
Senate Republicans on Monday are formally unveiling their stimulus proposal, which will serve as an opening bid ahead of bipartisan negotiations with Democrats as lawmakers scramble to respond to the ongoing economic and public health crisis sparked by the pandemic.…
The Spokane County Elections Office wants to remind residents that Monday is the deadline to register to vote online for the August primary.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — New Idaho GOP Chairman Tom Luna says Republicans in the state have an opportunity to unite by focusing more on what they have in common and less on their differences. Republicans elected Luna chairman at their…
A lawmaker from Western Washington wants to make masks happen.
