Renewal of a Spokane Public Library levy, constituting around 18% of the department’s entire yearly budget, was passing by a sizable margin Tuesday night.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a Spokane ballot measure that will limit the ability for the Spokane City Council to draw its own districts following accusations of gerrymandering in 2022.
Monday's "The Daily Show" opened to roaring applause and a standing ovation from the studio audience as they welcomed back host Jon Stewart, who left the show in 2015 after 16 years at the helm.
The US Supreme Court gave a special counsel until next Tuesday to respond to Donald Trump’s bid to pause his criminal trial for election interference while the ex-president presses an appeal that seeks immunity.
Ballots are due at 8 p.m. Tuesday for Spokane County-area voters being asked primarily to approve or reject tax increases to support schools, libraries and a fire district.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Sunday night after a well-funded super political action committee backing his independent presidential campaign ran an ad during the Super Bowl that closely resembled a spot supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his 1960 bid for the White House.
Spokane Public Schools is asking voters for a levy and bond on February ballots, as part of a decadeslong cycle to maintain 57 facilities serving more than 29,000 students.
The floodgates have been thrown open following Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ surprise announcement that she will not run for re-election this year, with rampant speculation about who might enter the race from the Republican side and whether any Democrat could flip a seat that has eluded the party for three decades.
The party of the imprisoned former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, won the most seats in parliamentary elections this past week, delivering a strong rebuke to the country's powerful generals and throwing the political system into chaos.
President Biden arrived in the Diplomatic Reception Room on Thursday evening aiming to demonstrate that what the special prosecutor had written about him in a report released earlier that day – that Biden was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” – was false.
When Rep. Adam B. Schiff stood before the U.S. Senate on the final day of President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial, he reprised a familiar role: prosecutor.
Now that the Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case of President Donald Trump and the 14th Amendment, it seems clear which side will win. The big question is what route the justices will take to allow him onto the ballot.
In training poll workers for this year’s presidential election, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is preparing them for a series of worst-case scenarios, including combat.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers looms large in Eastern Washington politics with 10 terms representing it in Congress and time before that in the Legislature.
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case challenging former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to hold office again. Through more than two hours of oral arguments, the court’s nine justices appeared poised to reject the effort to ban the Republican presidential front-runner from a state ballot on allegations that he engaged in insurrection. Late last year, the Colorado Supreme Court made an unprecedented ruling to remove Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot. On Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case.
After two decades in Congress, Spokane's Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who leads the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced Thursday she will not run for re-election.
The Supreme Court justices gave a favorable hearing to former President Trump on Thursday, suggesting they will clear the way for him to seek election this year despite the mob attack on the Capitol that followed his loss in 2020.
After perhaps her worst result in her Republican primary campaign -- finishing second to "None of These Candidates" in Nevada's primary, in which the front-runner, former President Donald Trump was not competing -- Nikki Haley unloaded on her own party, painting the day not as bad for her, but for Republicans.
Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana is expected to announce a campaign for Senate as soon as this weekend, torching plans from top Republican officials to avoid a bruising primary battle in a state that many in the party view as their best chance to win back control of the chamber.
Supreme Court oral arguments Thursday could shed light on what’s at stake for Congress in a case about a Colorado decision to bar Donald Trump from appearing on the state primary ballot based on the 14th Amendment.
