This year could shape up to be the worst year for whooping cough Washington has seen in over a decade.

State health officials counted 1,193 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, across 31 counties as of Nov. 2, according to the Department of Health's most recent update. This time last year, the state had reported 51 cases.

Washington is not ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear he’s ready to defend the U.S. central bank from political pressure following the re-election of Donald Trump, saying he wouldn’t resign if asked and insisting the incoming president doesn’t have the power to fire him or other senior Fed leaders.

“No,” Powell said firmly on Thursday, when ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining embers on his home soon after it started Wednesday ...Read more

DENVER — One of Colorado’s reintroduced wolves likely died of wounds it suffered during a fight with another wolf, federal officials announced Thursday.

The wolf also had a healed gunshot wound on one of its hind legs, according to a statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the wolf’s death...Read more

BOSTON — Two Boston city councilors are pressing Secretary of State William Galvin to follow through on his threat to place the Boston Election Department into receivership for its Election Day missteps that left polling places short on ballots.

Councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy penned a letter to Secretary Galvin on Thursday, to formally ...Read more

For some Washington business leaders, Donald Trump’s return to the White House revives hopes of fresh cuts to corporate taxes and a host of regulations.

Tech company leaders hoping to gain Trump’s good graces congratulated him on his win. Wall Street analysts expressed optimism that his administration won’t put guardrails on the tech ...Read more

Prince William got candid this week about the “brutal” and heartbreaking year 2024 has been, as wife Kate Middleton and father King Charles have navigated their respective cancer journeys.

“It’s been dreadful,” he told People from South Africa, where he was presiding over the Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony for climate change ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s team is forming a new administration and the president-elect is expected to draw top advisers and cabinet secretaries from a pool of Wall Street and business executives including officials from his first term — at least the ones who stuck by him.

Republicans are on track to win total control of government, ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Susie Wiles, the co-manager of his presidential campaign, as his White House chief of staff, elevating a longtime Florida political hand who has helped orchestrate some of the most crucial Republican wins in the state.

Wiles, who has worked for Republican politicians ranging from Jacksonville ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for two international summits on a trip abroad that threatens to be overshadowed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.

The president will travel to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru, from Nov. 14-16 and then travel to Manaus ...Read more

Once again, North Carolina voters have chosen a Democrat to lead the executive branch and Republicans to lead the General Assembly.

But Gov.-elect Josh Stein could start with greater leverage in negotiations with GOP leaders than Gov. Roy Cooper has had in his last two years in office, in which Republicans passed 26 bills over his veto.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — After two weeks of silence, a Florida agency disclosed it has granted a short license extension to state Rep. Carolina Amesty’s family-run school, which is embroiled in the forgery indictment against her.

The revelation did not come until roughly an hour after ballot counting confirmed that the lawmaker had lost her ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani was blasted by a Manhattan federal court judge Thursday for claiming he didn’t know the location of assets he owes the Georgia mother and daughter election workers he defamed — telling the former mayor the claim was “farcical.”

“The notion that your client doesn’t have any knowledge of where his assets ...Read more

DETROIT — A man serving time for robbery is accused of threatening to bomb Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's residence as retaliation for being denied parole.

Jihaad Ahmad, 36, is incarcerated at the Bellamy Creek Correction Facility in Ionia, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections website. Records indicate he was sentenced in ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that state police won’t assist in mass deportations is being blasted by critics who say it backtracks from her blaming the federal government for the migrant crisis.

Healey has come under fire after MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell asked the Bay State governor whether the Massachusetts State Police would ...Read more

Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

Many of Trump’s plans do not require congressional approval, but they still might be hard to undertake at a scale that ...Read more