Travel ban ruling stirs dismay among immigrants, advocates

Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke. With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, she expects that she can't do both.

Seattle Times: Trump should back off states with legal pot a ” and…

On [June 8], the president said he “probably will end up supporting” a bill in Congress to keep the federal government from interfering in states with legal pot laws. The president must not leave legal marijuana states yo-yoing between his vague words of support and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' marijuana-averse statements and policies.

Democrats target House seat that’s been red for 4 decades

Eight unknown Democrats are fighting for a spot to challenge a high-profile Republican in Washington state's reliably red 8th District. It's a familiar battle in the 8th, where voters have chosen the Republican for almost four decades since the U.S. House district's creation in 1980.

Inslee calls Trump order ‘cruelty;’ protests at Sea-Tac

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee blasted President Donald Trump's executive order banning people from certain Muslim-majority nations as "unjustifiable cruelty," and about 1,000 pro-immigration protesters gathered Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Attorneys from the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project said a Somali national was not allowed to enter and two other people were detained at the airport.

Road rager found through social media

What happens to President Barack Obama's 11.1 million Twitter followers on Inauguration Day? The White House says Obama's official POTUS account will be taken over by the next president, who will start with a huge following but a clean slate of tweets. Obama's tweets will move over to a new handle, POTUS44, by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Man charged with murdering 3 at suburban Seattle party

A lawyer representing the 19-year-old accused of fatally shooting three oth... . A friend of the Mukilteo shooting victims reacts as Allen Ivanov appears at Snohomish District Court in Everett, Wash., via video link from the Snohomish County Jail, Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, in Everett, Wash.

Gunman slays three teenagers, critically injures another at house party near Seattle

People hug outside Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Wash., during a vigil for those who were slain Saturday, July 30, 2016. On Sunday, hundreds gathered at the Mukilteo Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints to mourn the early deaths of three 19-year-olds.