6+ hour, 14+ min ago   (809+ words) Barry McCoy, owner of the Montana Livestock Auction in Ramsay, Mont., is frustrated by President Donald Trump allowing more beef imports to be sold in the United States. (Holly Pickett/For / Washington Post) RAMSAY, Mont. – Rancher Barry McCoy has watched…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (580+ words) When President Donald Trump offered to send a $5,000 dividend to all adult Americans last week if Republicans keep control of Congress, I didn’t open my calculator app to start reworking my budget. Promises of government largesse tend to sound great…...

7+ hour, 16+ min ago   (506+ words) A U.S. judge has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law by ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce in half. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco in a decision issued late Friday said the U.S. Department…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1075+ words) Like many Americans, 62-year-old Doug Jonas remembers exactly where he was on Sept. 11, 2001. He was elk hunting on Bethel Ridge near Yakima with two of his cousins and an uncle. As they were coming out of the thicket of trees…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (538+ words) Iran and the U.S. are digging in for a protracted war, with little sign of a near-term ceasefire or return to normal Middle East energy flows even if hostilities remain at a low intensity. Tehran’s leaders are resolved to keep fighting…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1214+ words) CARNATION, Wash. — Far from the refrigerated meat sections of Seattle’s grocery stores, two dozen beef cattle relaxed in the afternoon drizzle falling on Carnation Farms’ grassy fields. Livestock manager Alex Hagiepetros, 37, rattled off facts about the cows: Some are Belted…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (490+ words) The South King County man, a delivery driver who had filed an asylum application, had no clue where he was going until someone made an announcement on the plane they were passing the Mississippi River, according to his wife. That…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (704+ words) Foreign policy took center stage in The Spokesman-Review’s debate between Republican Congressman Michael Baumgartner and Democrat Carmela Conroy on Wednesday. Both candidates have a background in international relations and foreign affairs. Conroy is a retired diplomat across the globe, and…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (713+ words) DALLAS — In a remarkable move for a Democratic lawmaker, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday appeared in a video at the Republican midterms convention — an event specifically designed to boost GOP candidates this fall — in a way that praised President…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (633+ words) OLYMPIA — Washington has filed two multi-state lawsuits alleging the federal government has illegally loosened protections for endangered wildlife. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced both cases, which were filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine…...