Flooding from Hurricane Melissa killed 25 people in Haiti while the storm still churned across Cuba on Wednesday after leaving Jamaica with widespread damage and power outages ...

U.S. stocks are rising toward more records on Wednesday as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve in the afternoon about what it will do with interest rates.

A federal trial over whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland is set to begin Wednesday, with local police officials expected to testify that federal agents ...

Washington has joined 24 other states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture to require the agency to use contingency funding to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its short-term rate Wednesday for the second time this year despite an increasingly cloudy view of the economy it is trying to influence.

People who have been homeless often cling to their possessions for a sense of security. Once they land housing, however, it can often cost them stability.

Heading into the final week of the regular season — which includes a bevy of key games on Halloween Night — just five teams have clinched Week 10 playoff berths — Kelso (7-1), Evergreen (5-3), ...

The federal government shutdown continues to keep the doors of historic Fort Vancouver closed. The closure is pinching the ...

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over ...

Adam Smith has been in Congress for nearly 30 years. What it means to be in Congress, though, has dramatically — alarmingly — changed.

If you’ve ever wandered into the cheese section with the innocent intent of “just picking up some mozzarella,” you know it’s not that simple.

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