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U.S. President Joe Biden has frayed relations between Ankara and Washington “beyond repair” with his recent statement using the word “genocide” to describe the 1915 Armenian genocide by Turkey, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency argued Tuesday.

A foster family says they have been evicted from their home by a local Washington-based nonprofit to make room for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) flooding across the United States-Mexico border. 

A couple who have been taking in troubled teens for the past seven years have been told they must move to make room for the illegal aliens.

An illegal alien in the sanctuary state of Washington has been deported from the United States after having served less than 10 years in prison for murder.

A little league in Seattle, Washington, said it is no longer safe for kids on the ballfield due to nearby homeless encampments. 

A teenage girl was assaulted by Antifa members during a Turning Point USA event at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, Washington, on Saturday.

Students at Wenatchee High School in Wenatchee, Washington, conducted band practice while standing inside of individual pop-up tents last week in an auditorium on campus. Comical images of the band practice, including a tuba player squeezed inside the small tents, have gone viral on social media.

National Guard members might still be deployed to the nation’s capital through the fall of 2021, according to a recent report.

President Joe Biden canceled his planned speech to the State Department on Monday after the Washington, DC, area received two inches of snow.

A police dog in Washington state has returned home after being shot during a police chase and enduring several surgeries in Oregon.

Miller said in a statement that there was “no intelligence indicating an insider threat” from the National Guard.

A local teachers union president in Washington claimed this week that reopening schools is an act of “white supremacy.”

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times gloated on Thursday in its coverage of a pro-Trump mob attacking the U.S. Capitol the day before, describing it as “karma” for Washington and a sign that American democracy has begun to collapse.

A member of a school district board in Washington is under fire after using the phrase “crack the whip.”  Hundreds of local residents have signed a petition calling on Paul Wagemann, a member of the school board since 2009, to resign from his post over the comment they call racist.

Amazon officially surpassed Boeing to become the largest employer in the state of Washington. As of 2020, there are approximately 80,000 Amazon employees in the state of Washington. By contrast, Boeing employs 58,800 employees in the state.

Data from the Metropolitan Police Department show that homicides in D.C. are at the highest rate since 2004.

A majority of Americans want President Trump to “continue to fight to change Washington,” a McLaughlin & Associates survey released Monday found.

Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington, rejected a student’s yearbook picture because she posed with an American flag draped over her shoulders. A statement from the school claims the decision was not made against what the flag represents, but out of respect: “We respect our flag as much as any school in the area and were concerned that in the photo submitted it was being used as a prop in the photo and was not being afforded appropriate regard.”

A Joe Biden White House will be happy to intercede on Bejing’s behalf and silence criticism of the Chinese Communist Party by U.S. allies, a China state media outlet claimed Monday.

The Seattle City Council voted Monday to reduce the city’s police department budget as officers leave the force in droves.

A Washington school district has apologized for ejecting Asian students from their “students of color” category because they were performing satisfactorily.

Broadway star and COVID-19 survivor Chad Kimball has sworn to “respectfully disobey” Washington state’s restrictions against singing in church, saying that such religious prohibitions represent an overreach of power by Gov. Jay Inslee (D).

Doctors recently brought a lost hiker back to life after he was rescued from whiteout conditions on Washington’s Mount Rainier.

President Donald Trump thrilled a supporter rally Saturday in Washington, DC, as he drove by the group on the way to the golf course.

A new squad of campus officers at the University of Washington will not be permitted to carry firearms due to efforts by campus officials to accommodate concerns voiced by black students and faculty. The university’s president acknowledged last week that the decision was made in response to recent police killings of black men and women.

“You fucking Uncle Tom coon ass nigger!” shouted a Black Lives Matter protester with a megaphone at a black police officer in Washington, DC.

Voters in the state of Washington are deciding Tuesday on the nation’s first sex ed statewide ballot measure for public schools.

City workers are trying to repair the damage vandals did to a statue of former Washington Gov. John Harte McGraw that has stood in downtown Seattle for a century.

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is planning to build back the Washington, DC, political class to business as usual as his advisers have started meeting with K Street lobbyists who are eager for President Trump to leave office.

A judge ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood in its lawsuit against a church community that holds a service outside the abortion facility.

Protesters in Washington, D.C., headed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s home early Thursday morning for a “wake up call.”

Environmentalists and the courts are still resisting calls for effective forest management despite mass wildfires in western states.

“You know it is about forest management. Please remember the words, very simple: forest management. Please remember that,” he said at a campaign rally in Minden, Nevada on Saturday night.

Four individuals — two in Washington, one in Oregon, and another in California — have been arrested for arson as firefighters battle dozens of blazes across the West Coast. One of the arrestees is reportedly a “regular attendee” of anti-police rallies in Seattle.

An orca whale that once spent 17 days carrying her stillborn calf in a period of mourning gave birth once again to a healthy calf.

President Donald Trump is reviewing options to defund some of America’s most chaotic cities as Democrat leaders mull defunding the police.