After 20 years, is it time to give Port Angeles City Councilors a raise?
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – Port Angeles City Councilmembers say it’s time they got a raise, and most of them agree their compensation should at least double. It’s important to note that a city ordinance states
House panel investigating COVID-19's origins holds first hearing
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the heels of a federal agency’s new assessment that COVID-19 “mostly likely” emerged from a lab leak rather than natural human exposure, a special panel formed by House
After 20 years, is it time to give Port Angeles City Councilors a raise?
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – Port Angeles City Councilmembers say it’s time they got a raise, and most of them agree their compensation should at least double. It’s important to note that a city ordinance states
Senate overwhelmingly votes to block changes to DC criminal code as activists protest
Getty Images/Richard Sharrocks (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Senate on Wednesday voted by a lopsided margin to halt much debated changes to Washington, D.C.’s, century-old criminal code, a move supported by President Joe Biden but criticized by some
FBI continues search for Michigan woman missing since December
FBI (MICHIGAN) — The FBI is renewing its push as it searches for a Michigan woman who has been missing since December and may have been killed. Heather Mae Kelley, 35, of Portage, has been missing since
Veterans' searing testimony drives GOP-led House panel hearing on Afghanistan exit
Getty Images/Virojt Changyencham (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — During their first hearing investigating the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee sought Wednesday to evoke memories of the frenzied final days of
Afghan girls and women defy Taliban by continuing studies in secret schools
Getty Images/David Sacks (AFGHANISTAN) — More than 600 Afghan women and girls refuse to bow down to the Taliban’s ban on education. Run by 25-year-old Parasto, a non-registered NGO called SRAK allows students to take their studies
Biden administration weighs detaining migrant families, sparking Democratic blowback
Getty Images/Bo Zaunders (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — As the Biden administration prepares for the possible end of the immigration restriction known as Title 42 — which could lead to an increase of people attempting to cross the southern
Prosecutor won't charge 6-year-old accused of shooting teacher
Getty Images/Catherine McQueen (VIRGINIA) — A local prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not believe the law supports charging the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting a teacher at his Virginia elementary school. “We don’t believe the law
Snowstorm strands Northern California woman in her car for 3 nights
Getty Images/Pete Lomchid (CALIFORNIA) — A Northern California woman was rescued after surviving three nights in her car when she became stranded in a historic snowstorm while driving up a winding mountain road in an attempt to