People who most frequently encounter everyday discrimination – those subtle snubs and slights of everyday life – are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression.

What’s more, that finding remains true no matter the person’s race, gender, age, education, income, weight, language, immigration status or where they live.

...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers killed a proposal Thursday that would have prohibited lobbyists from donating to legislators, statewide elected officials or candidates for those offices.

Senate Bill 148 fell at the measure’s first hurdle on 2-3 bipartisan vote by a committee. The bill would’ve expanded a 31-year-old Colorado law that bars ...Read more

SEATTLE — For decades, toxic tire dust has choked coho salmon before they can spawn in their natal streams. Now, King County scientists say they have made a "potential breakthrough" in how to save them.

Preliminary results from a recently completed study show certain soil mixes can effectively filter a toxic chemical out of stormwater, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its "war on terror" prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

"A state of war is not a blank check for the President," said Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2004. "Whatever power the U.S. Constitution envisions for the ...Read more

Hundreds of protests against Elon Musk and his role in President Donald Trump’s administration were expected to take place Friday and Saturday in the Bay Area and across the globe.

Organizers who are part of a campaign called the “Tesla Takedown” said they are hoping to spur people into non-violent action against Musk to voice their ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — Hundreds of union members and other protesters gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma on Thursday evening to rally against the detainment of two Washington residents being held there.

The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, called on union members and community supporters to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law.

A brief filed by Acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado budget writers have finalized the state government’s proposed spending plan — and they’ve done so without long-feared draconian cuts to Medicaid and education.

The powerful Joint Budget Committee, which wrapped its work Wednesday night, started the process last fall with a $1.2 billion spending hole it needed to fill. ...Read more

Israel’s military struck Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire with the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah started in November, an indication of how the deal backed by the U.S. and France is fraying.

Israel said its forces hit a Hezbollah drone-storage facility in the suburbs of Lebanon’s capital on Friday, shortly after it sent a...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada lawmakers introduced a bill that would add steps needed to take over a probate case, after the Las Vegas Review-Journal found a cottage industry reaped paydays selling dead people’s homes through court but often didn’t make a dime for heirs.

The state Senate Judiciary Committee put forward a measure on March 20 that ...Read more

ATLANTA — Legislation regulating the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender minors and banning use of the State Health Benefits Plan for gender-affirming care were approved by House panels this week.

Both bills were approved on party-line votes, with Republicans supporting the measures, putting them in position to reach the floor ...Read more

A plane carrying 178 Venezuelan migrants landed in Caracas early Friday morning, marking the latest deportation effort since the Venezuelan socialist regime resumed deportation flights from the United States last week.

The returnees, 165 men and 13 women, were greeted by government officials who condemned their treatment abroad and accused the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – Salim Said liked to shop at Nordstrom, where he would spend as much as $9,000 a month on clothes and other luxury goods in 2021.

Aimee Bock took two trips to Las Vegas with her boyfriend, where they spent thousands of dollars in 2021 renting exotic sports cars and shopping at high-end retail outlets such as Gucci and Louis ...Read more

Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment. As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect land, water and air, including well beyond their own boundaries.

Their ...Read more

For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed.

The consequences of advanced chronic kidney disease are severe. When these essential organs can no longer do their job of filtering waste products from the blood, patients ...Read more

In January 2025, while doing research at the Vatican archives, I heard Pope Francis’ Sunday prayers in St. Peter’s Square. The pope reflected on the ceasefire that had just gone into effect in Gaza, highlighting the role of mediators, the need for humanitarian aid, and his hope for a two-state solution.

“Let us pray always for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ali, a UCLA student who joined pro-Palestinian protests last year, avoided arrest when riot police dismantled the school's encampment last May. An international student who took part in a surge of campus activism around Israel's war in Gaza, he was wary of having a record that could affect his visa. But he did not otherwise hide ...Read more

Iran’s foreign minister said his country responded to a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump on the prospect of new talks over Tehran’s nuclear program, without giving detail on the contents.

Abbas Araghchi told the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency that the reply was sent Wednesday via Oman, a longtime mediator between Iran and the...Read more

Ekrem Imamoglu, the Turkish opposition figure whose detention this month triggered mass protests and a market selloff, criticized Western leaders for their muted response to his arrest.

In a piece published in The New York Times on Friday morning, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival accused the U.S. and Europe of ...Read more