McCarthy expresses optimism on averting government shutdown
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — To avert a shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House should still try to pass a Republican short-term funding measure next week in addition to the individual spending bills, despite GOP holdouts.
How hospitals have been coping with COVID as number of admissions tick up
MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weekly COVID hospitalizations have been ticking up over the past 11 weeks, rising to 20,538 for the week ending Sept. 9, the highest figures seen since March of this year. Although
Why the CDC recommends that everyone over the age of 6 months get the updated COVID vaccine
Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An independent panel of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that everyone over the age of 6 months get the updated COVID vaccine this fall. “Even
Couple speaks out about embryo donation after fertility treatment
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fertility treatments can be a very emotional process filled with complex decisions, including what to do with extra embryos. It’s a dilemma Ryann and Richard Hendrickson had to face. The married
Sen. Bob Menendez indicted over gifts of gold bars, car, apartment
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee. The investigation focused on a
Justice Department arrests, charges IT contractor with espionage
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has arrested and charged an IT contractor with two counts of espionage for allegedly taking secret and top-secret information from the State Department and sending it to a foreign country.
LOCAL SPORTS: NK outkicks Sequim, PA gets another win
By Oly Archibald SEQUIM — First place was on the line as the state’s 7th ranked 3-0 North Kitsap Vikings washed up on the banks of the Dungeness Valley to invade and conquer another Olympic League soccer
South Korea visit to 'deepen and strengthen' relations with US, top Commerce official says
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A top Department of Commerce official’s visit to South Korea is intended to “find ways to deepen and strengthen” the connection between the two countries, and to build off the
UAW president to make announcement on strike as deadline looms for GM, Ford, Stellantis
MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images (DETROIT) — A labor strike against the three largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States could expand if ongoing contract negotiations don’t move toward a deal by Friday. United Auto Workers
Commerce Department finalizes rule on national security 'guardrails' for CHIPS funding
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Commerce Department finalized the national security “guardrails” in which recipients who receive CHIPS and Science Act funding must abide by. The CHIPS and Science Act was passed last year to address