The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to become the next Treasury secretary and enact the ...

Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

A new Spokane facility hopes to make lighter, more fuel-efficient airplane parts using giant machines that work like a waffle ...

President Trump’s picks to lead the nation’s energy and environment-focused agencies all sailed through committee votes on Thursday morning. The Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources ...

A Senate panel unanimously advanced President Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Transportation (DOT), former Rep. Sean ...

President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the ...

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan was the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch.

Most of the 47 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus, including Sen. Maria Cantwell, voted to move forward with the legislation. Her fellow Washington Democrat, Sen. Patty Murray, was one of ...

Biographer Lyndsy Spence, author of Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, says: “Maria Callas lived her life trying to meet the demands of the public, who were often unforgiving in their ...

Here, violence and possession make way for the haunted. Maria is the softer, more restrained film – less immediately striking, perhaps, but still deeply emotive. It invokes the last days of Mari ...