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U.S. President Joe Biden's pick to head a key market regulator promised on Tuesday a thorough review of issues raised by the GameStop Corp stock frenzy and suggested companies may have to disclose their potential risks from climate change.

Shuttered schools across the country report an unprecedented number of children missing from school. One organization estimates as many as thr

A Proud Boys leader was nominated to carry out "war powers" intended to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's election win, according to federal prosecutors.U.S. prosecutors asked a federal judge to keep Ethan Nordean, the right-wing organization's Washington state leader, in jail until hi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats' hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday signaled they may rein in the power of in-house judges serving on a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal who have the ability to cancel patents in a case involving a dispute between surgical device makers.

News came in late Friday from Washington state that the state House passed Bill1091 – a statewide clean fuel standard bill – and now is headed to the state Senate for voting. It passed the House with a vote of 52-46 and is the third year the House chamber has voted in support of the […]

The $15 minimum wage has risen from the ashes to threaten the passage of the president's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill that passed the House on Friday.

Gov. Kate Brown and state public health officials also announced that residents ages 45 and older who have underlying medical conditions will be in the next wave of Oregonians to start receiving COVID-19 vaccinations after seniors.

Democratic lawmakers are wrestling with how to move forward with a series of immigration bills that would legalize undocumented immigrants, with some pushing for sweeping immigration revisions out of the gate and others urging caution.

Lawmakers hope to address some of the problems the pandemic exposed in Washington state's unemployment system, including at the Employment Security Department. But reforms won't be easy or quick — and critics say they don't go nearly far enough.

The Justice Department said Saturday it will appeal a judge's ruling that found the federal government's eviction moratorium was unconstitutional.

There are two new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state's death toll to 2,208, the Oregon Health Authority reported Saturday.

Nearly 10% of residents in North Dakota have completed both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The real reason billionaire Gates just became the biggest owner of farmland in America.

The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they'd revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.

House Democrats passed their sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package in a party-line vote early Saturday morning, advancing President Biden's top legislative priority.

On his first day in the Oval Office, President Biden signed a record 17 executive orders. One of the worst – and most dangerous – was his "Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities." A more apt title would be "Providing Sanctuary for Criminal Aliens."

The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill early Saturday in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they'd revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.

In San Mateo County 70 ineligible people were vaccinated at One Medical.

A $1.9 trillion package aimed at helping the country rebuild from the pandemic seemed headed toward House passage Friday, even as Democrats searched for a way to revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.