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Clearing the pathway out of poverty: Southwest Washington activists lobby in Olympia

January 21, 2025, 2:29pm Clark County News

Activists across Washington have a dream: to end discrimination and alleviate the root causes of systemic poverty across the state. Read story

WA leads multistate lawsuit against Trump’s exec order ending birthright citizenship

January 21, 2025, 1:11pm Latest News

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown last month vowed to take on the incoming administration of President Donald Trump when necessary. Hours into Trump’s second term, the state’s top lawyer has… Read story

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President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Trump order directing water away from conservation focuses on California rivers — not the Columbia

President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

January 22, 2025, 12:23pm Clark County News

President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to clarify comments he made last summer that led many in the Pacific Northwest to fear he would attempt to divert Columbia River water to Southern California. Read story

FILE - Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Capitol Hill, Feb. 29, 2024, in Washington.

White House sidelines staffers detailed to National Security Council, aligning team to Trump agenda

FILE - Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Capitol Hill, Feb. 29, 2024, in Washington.

January 22, 2025, 10:20am Politics

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has sidelined about 160 National Security Council staffers, telling them to work from home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to align it with Trump’s agenda, Trump administration officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Read story

Volunteers talk in a tent along a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego.

Pentagon to send up to 1,500 active duty troops to help secure US-Mexico border, officials say

Volunteers talk in a tent along a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego.

January 22, 2025, 10:20am Politics

The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration. Read story

FILE - National security adviser John Bolton, left, listens to President Donald Trump, far right, speak during a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump' s private Mar-a-Lago club, April 18, 2018 in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump’s perceived enemies worry about losing pensions, getting audited and paying steep legal bills

FILE - National security adviser John Bolton, left, listens to President Donald Trump, far right, speak during a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump' s private Mar-a-Lago club, April 18, 2018 in Palm Beach, Fla.

January 22, 2025, 10:19am Politics

It’s not just criminal prosecutions that worry those who have crossed President Donald Trump. There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions. Read story

Taliban fighters stand guard in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 26, 2022.

Afghans who fled Taliban rule urge Trump to lift refugee program suspension

Taliban fighters stand guard in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 26, 2022.

January 22, 2025, 9:20am Nation & World

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power appealed Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops. Read story

Biden, Harris in California, and soon Trump will be too

January 22, 2025, 9:07am Politics

Former President Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden are spending their first days after leaving the White House in Santa Barbara County, according to media reports. Read story

Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

January 22, 2025, 9:01am Churches & Religion

President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally. Read story

Votes for Mr. Potato Head and fictional characters given to a real candidate in South Georgia race

January 22, 2025, 8:59am Nation & World

After voters wrote in Mr. Potato Head, Mickey Mouse and hundreds of other names on their ballots, an election official awarded all those votes to the real candidate in a low-profile South Georgia race. Read story