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Murray, Collins strike deal on fiscal 2024 emergency funds

WASHINGTON -- Senate Appropriations Committee leaders have reached agreement to tack on nearly $14 billion in additional fiscal 2024 spending in the bills set to come before the panel before the August recess, sources familiar with the discussions say.

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Former Sounder Jimmy Gabriel had CTE. His family is pushing for head safety in soccer.

TUKWILA, Wash. — Jimmy Gabriel told the best stories.

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Republicans’ conservative election bill heads to House floor

WASHINGTON -- The House Administration Committee voted 8-4 on Thursday to advance a conservative election package, batting down dozens of amendments from Democrats during a marathon markup.

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Senators say adding flights to National could slow FAA bill - Roll Call

Senators from Maryland and Virginia oppose adding slots to National airport in Washington, saying the airport is already at capacity.

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Spectrum authority lapse impinges on broadband, 5G plans

WASHINGTON -- It’s been nearly four months since Congress let the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum lapse, potentially hindering the deployment of broadband or expanding 5G capabilities.

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House, Senate majorities putting their stamps on earmarks

WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

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Alaska to receive most per-capita aid in broadband funding rollout

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration’s long-awaited allocation of high-speed internet funding will give 19 states at least $1 billion each in federal aid from a 2021 infrastructure law, with Alaska, West Virginia, Wyoming and Montana leading the list in per capita aid.

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Costco offering made-in-store sushi at this Washington state location, a first in the U.S. Is it good?

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Costco launched its first in-store sushi in the United States at its Issaquah branch earlier this month and has plans to bring its rolls and sashimi to select markets across the country, a high-ranking source at the company's Issaquah headquarters told The Seattle Times on condition of…

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Why Joel Dahmen and caddie Geno Bonnalie have become golf's most interesting duo

SEATTLE — PGA Tour player Joel Dahmen, a former Washington Husky from Clarkston, Wash., and his caddie, Geno Bonnalie, are best friends, but they are even more than that.

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Seahawks QB Geno Smith taking ‘command’ of team in Year 2 as starter

RENTON, Wash. — One of the biggest stories of this Seahawks offseason is that the biggest story of last offseason — who will play quarterback — is now a non-story.

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White House Honors Jewish American Heritage Month With Other Washington Power Figures

President Biden reminded the audience that Evan Gershkovich has not been forgotten and the U.S. alliance with Israel.

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Teams to watch at the USGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball include Stanford mid-ams, pair of 14-year-olds and a bomber who nearly advanced through U.S. Open local qualifying

Match play begins on Monday with the Round of 32.

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New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge

One of Washington state's new gun laws are already facing a court challenge

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Matt Calkins: For Seahawks brass, having a top-five pick in NFL draft brings excitement and pressure

RENTON, Wash. — There was a sixth when they started. There was a ninth last time they did this. There have been a slew of selections in the 20s, and a couple in the 30s.

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Former NBA Star Charged With Assault In Connection to Shooting in Mall Parking Lot

The former NBA All-Star is facing legal action stemming from his involvement in a shooting that took place in Tacoma, Wash. on March 8.

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Members of Congress weigh in on court fight over abortion drug

WASHINGTON — A Louisiana-based federal appeals court could decide as soon as Wednesday the availability of the nation’s most used medication abortion drug, as members of Congress from both parties weighed in on a lower court ruling that would stop the manufacture and distribution of the drug this Saturday.

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Push is on to boost troops’ housing allowance

WASHINGTON — Democrats in both chambers have been angling for several years to give military families more money to cover housing costs, and they are at it again — this time with some influential GOP support.

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Legislative themes emerge on upcoming pandemic reauthorization

WASHINGTON — The broad outlines of an upcoming debate over a pandemic preparedness reauthorization bill are beginning to emerge as regulators, policymakers and industry groups take stock of lessons learned from COVID-19.

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Washington state stockpiles abortion pills ahead of federal court ruling

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington has stockpiled thousands of doses of an abortion pill in anticipation of a federal court ruling in Texas that could limit its availability, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday.

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House’s monthly pay cycle, an inconvenience for some, could get review

WASHINGTON — When money gets low, some House staffers hit up receptions around the District for free food. Others, especially junior staffers, work multiple jobs to get them from one paycheck to the next. Still others run up credit card debt while working in the halls of Congress — whatever…

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Crossing the perilous Willapa Bay bar holds a steep cost

BAY CENTER, Wash. — To reach the ocean crabbing grounds from this Southwest Washington community, Mike Green must navigate his boat through the seas that churn across the mouth of Willapa Bay. There are no jetties to sweep out the piling sediments, or buoys to mark a channel through the…

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Critics say Big Tech uses trade deals to avoid data privacy laws

WASHINGTON — Tech companies are using international trade agreements to conceal software codes behind artificial intelligence programs as well as circumvent U.S. legislation that could curb the industry’s freewheeling use of consumer data, according to lawmakers and advocacy groups.

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Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say ‘yes we can’

WASHINGTON — New Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., knows that returning the chamber’s appropriations process to regular order “won’t be a walk in the park,” as she said during a news conference last week.

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Trains derail in Arizona and Washington, with oil spilled on Puget Sound tribal land

The derailment in Washington state occurred on a berm along Padilla Bay, on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes. Most of 5,000 gallons of spilled diesel fuel leaked on the land.

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Gap in data complicates legislation to keep China off US farms

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in Congress and across the country are sounding national security alarms about foreign buyers, particularly those with links to the Chinese government, acquiring control of U.S. farm and forest land.

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