Democrats will not hold a virtual roll call to formally nominate President Joe Biden until at least August, after an outcry from some who believed the process was being rushed at his behest to head off calls for him to stand aside. The party will still undertake the process virtually — rather than at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in late August — but there will not be any ...
Six Republicans and five Democrats are running to represent Eastern Washington in Congress in one of the year’s most crowded races in Washington, with only the open seat for governor attracting more candidates.
Spokane County voters will be asked to renew a nearly 30-year-old sales tax this November that funds detention facilities and jails for juvenile offenders.
President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
When he ran for office in 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump focused heavily on abortion, vowing to nominate Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade — which he did as president.
When an outraged Ukrainian lawmaker berated JD Vance at this year’s Munich Security Conference over the Republicans’ blocking of aid to his country, the U.S. senator listened patiently. But Oleksiy Honcharenko couldn’t change his mind.
A new statewide poll shows Democrat Bob Ferguson 9 percentage points ahead of his main rival, Republican Dave Reichert, in the battle for the governor's mansion.
When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, one of his steadfast critics within the Republican Party was J.D. Vance - then a young lawyer and venture capitalist who in June of that year published a best-selling book about his upbringing in Appalachia and the Rust Belt.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s “not afraid” of a potential second Donald Trump presidency even as he said the turbulence around the U.S. election is hurting Kyiv’s effort on the battlefield. Days after Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, world leaders are grappling with his presidential bid gaining fresh momentum. Zelenskyy, who this month demanded ...
Many of the nation’s pundits seem to be dreaming of an open national convention. The party rules make that almost impossible and fraught with problems.
Three challengers seek to head public education in Washington, vying for the role of superintendent of public instruction held by incumbent Chris Reykdal since 2017.
Saturday’s alleged assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump could be a moment of unity, for partisan politicians to ease back toward civility. Or it could just make things worse, said Cornell Clayton, director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service at Washington State University.
As news broke that former U.S. President Donald Trump had reportedly suffered a gunshot wound from an assassination attempt at a campaign rally Saturday afternoon, local political figures expressed shock and outrage.
Support for President Joe Biden’s candidacy is cracking in one of the party’s key pillars: New York. Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, who says that Biden “deserves our eternal gratitude” for his nearly four years running the country, called for him to end his campaign for reelection and make “room for a new leader.”
Kyiv wants to convene a second meeting to achieve a fair peace settlement in Ukraine before the U.S. elections in November, this time with Russia attending, according to people familiar with the matter.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — State Sen. Manka Dhingra, a Democrat from Redmond who is running for state attorney general, first faced questions earlier this summer for claiming in campaign materials that she was still working for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. The controversy took another turn in recent days, when Dhingra's campaign updated her website to say that she is on a leave of ...
President Joe Biden faced a fresh wave of pressure on Wednesday to end his campaign or rethink his decision to run for re-election, as Democrats from Hollywood to Capitol Hill aired concerns he would lose to Donald Trump in November and drag his party's chance of controlling Congress down with him.
More than 12,000 people have applied to volunteer for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago a little more than a month before the city’s first political convention in 28 years kicks off, Chicago 2024 Host Committee coordinators announced Wednesday.
