Republican candidates defend Trump after Colorado 14th Amendment ruling
Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers fell in line behind
Biden claims Trump 'embraces political violence,' plays down his poor polling
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday
Huge state grants are about to change the peninsula “childcare desert”

By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – Great news today for the struggling childcare situation on the Olympic Peninsula. The Washington State Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced over $2 million in Child Care Partnership Grants to 18
Huge state grants are about to change the peninsula “childcare desert”
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – Great news today for the struggling childcare situation on the Olympic Peninsula. The Washington State Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced over $2 million in Child Care Partnership Grants to 18
Port Angeles Dream Playground has burned down

By Amanda Bacon and Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – The Dream Playground, located at Erickson Park on Race Street in Port Angeles, has burned to the ground. Sergeant Clay Rife from the Port Angele Police Dept. told
'Fat Leonard,' mastermind behind US Navy corruption scandal, arrested
U.S. Marshals Service via AP (NEW YORK) — Fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” the mastermind behind the worst corruption scheme in U.S. Navy history, was arrested and returned to the U.S. Wednesday as part
Boston Mayor Wu apologizes to 2 Black men wrongly accused in 1989 murder
Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Massachusetts Conference For Women (BOSTON) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu publicly apologized to two Black men who were wrongfully accused in the 1989 murder of a pregnant white woman. Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson
DOJ alleges Houston developer swindled Hispanic borrowers with 'bait and switch' scheme
Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images (HOUSTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced its first-ever predatory mortgage lending lawsuit against a Houston-based developer they accuse of swindling tens of thousands of Hispanic borrowers into buying flood-prone homes with
Federal judge says research can't be used to link acetaminophen to autism, ADHD
George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The 440 lawsuits brought against the makers of Tylenol and generic acetaminophen do not have “admissible evidence” to show that prenatal exposure to the medication can lead to autism or
US releases ally of Venezuela’s President Maduro in a swap for 10 jailed Americans
Gaby Oraa/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration completed a prisoner swap with Venezuela Wednesday, granting clemency to one of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s close allies in exchange for the freedom of 10 Americans who had been jailed