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The Grand Illusion plans to reopen its new home in the University District in late November or early December and to show movies every day of the week.

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

The midterms dodge their first MAGA bullet. It won’t be the last.

September is usually the time when there’s a tug of war between summer’s last, desperate grasps and autumn’s impending takeover.

The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.

The Interior Department did not give approval to more than 130 partnership agreements covering activities like tending to sled dogs and preventing damage to burial mounds.

The new trains feature ergonomic seats, upgraded WiFi, and a sleek new cafe car. They'll go into service on both the Seattle to Eugene and Seattle to Vancouver, B.C. routes. More trains are set to arrive by the end of the year, dramatically increasing Amtrak Cascades capacity.

A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's request to lift a lower court's order that blocked new rules for mail ballots before the midterms.

A Washington Post analysis found that 133 million people live in counties where a quarter of nights were extremely warm.

My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

The Associated Press says it will continue to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, and not Lake America. It says that as a global news agency, it must ensure place names are easily recognizable...

A trademark dispute scuttled its plans to relaunch as The Washington Star, so the site chose a different name.

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.

The rejection of late ballots is hitting some Washington counties — particularly in rural areas — much harder.

Missourians will vote on the gerrymandered congressional map muscled through the Legislature in 2025, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled.

The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump from being used in the November election.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces possible Democratic discipline after joining Republicans on a procedural vote this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week renaming it Lake America, as part of his feud with Canada.