Washington voters will soon decide whether to repeal the state's tax on capital gains, which is paid by some of the state's wealthiest residents. Why it matters: If voters opt to nix the tax by approving Initiative 2109,

Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Political Trauma, Vote 2024 and Government Funding:  For the second time in just over two months, Donald Trump faced an apparent assassination attempt - this time as he golfed in Florida.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.

Democrat Bob Ferguson criticized Republican Dave Reichert's stance on abortion while Reichert promised to veto any new tax proposals during the first debate between the Washington state gubernatorial candidates Tuesday.

“Harris and Trump have promised that there will be no changes to Social Security for its benefit level, which means essentially, both Harris and Trump have committed us to staying on the road to Social Security insolvency within a decade,” Brian Riedl, a budget expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute, told Zach.

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed will prioritize talks on economic ties ahead of geopolitics during his first trip to Washington as the country’s ruler.

Washington’s longtime attorney general and a former sheriff known for his work hunting down a notorious serial killer traded accusations of lying to voters during their gubernatorial debate Wednesday,

Washington Post' Congressional correspondent Jacqueline Alemany reports on a possible government shutdown and Congressional Democrats opposing a clean bill mandating citizenship to be able to vote. JONATHAN LEMIRE,

Kamala Harris plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in Washington next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Democratic nominee tries to broaden her foreign policy profile.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump participates in a "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America Event" in Washington.

The CFTC is working to ban political prediction markets. Its current goal: Get a federal appeals court to keep one from launching while it argues