President Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, …
New York and Washington allow parents to refuse vaccinations for non-medical reasons. Both states are experiencing major measles outbreaks. This is not a coincidence. To be a parent in the 1950s was to know that your child would at some point contract measles, a highly contagious virus characterized by fever …
Washington state’s measles outbreak is becoming a bigger public-health crisis, as the number of confirmed cases has surpassed 30 — and that number will only continue to rise, public health officials say, largely because the outbreak is happening in an area with low vaccination rates. When governor Jay Inslee declared …
On October 21, 2016, an entity called the Cherry Revocable Trust purchased two adjacent buildings in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., for twenty-three million dollars. The buildings, which previously had housed the Textile Museum, were to be converted into a private residence—at twenty-seven thousand square feet, the largest in the …
In this photo taken June 8, 2018, craft donut shop owner Amy Pruchnic, right, talks with an employee at her busy new store in downtown Spokane, Wash. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Ramsey and Amy Pruchnic lived in the Seattle area for five years before deciding they wanted to escape the …
Amid the usual queries at the information counter at Reagan National Airport — Where’s the bathroom? Where’s the Cinnabon? Where’s my gate? — Leanne Omland gets a version of this whopper about once a day: Where’s my airport? It often falls to Omland to break the bad news to someone …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Construction of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial kicked off symbolically on Thursday after years of opposition to the late U.S. president’s $150 million monument by critics who balked at its cost and size. FILE PHOTO: Architect Frank Gehry arrives from the Cross Hall of the …
Cuba says the move – which follows mysterious acoustic attacks – is unacceptable and unjustified. The US has expelled 15 Cuban diplomats, saying Havana failed to protect US diplomats from mysterious acoustic attacks. Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called the move “unacceptable”. The Department of State move follows last week’s …
“What is off-putting about them,” one political veteran told me, “is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance. They think they are special.” I. AIR FORCE ONE Donald Trump hoped the trip would draw a line under the Russia story, which had hounded his candidacy and was now damaging his …
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — The dark gray fish prized for its buttery flavor live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their lab cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae. A biologist shines his dim red headlamp and uses an ultrasound to scan the belly of …
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could change dramatically as at least two companies are rushing to get robotic fruit-picking machines to market. The robotic pickers don’t …
SEATTLE (AP) — Soggy Seattle has broken another rainfall record. The city measured 44.7 inches (114 centimeters) of rain between October and April, making it the wettest such period since records began in 1895, the National Weather Service in Seattle said. It marks the second year in the row that …