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Former Washington team president Bruce Allen testifies 10 hours before House committee

Bruce Allen testified for 10 hours before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Tuesday.

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Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda

Lawmakers return to Washington this month to wrestle with a White House request for $47.1 billion in emergency supplemental funds and the need to pass a stopgap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown starting Oct. 1.

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Friday Harbor, where seaplanes are a familiar presence, reels after crash

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — It was shaping up to be a lovely Sunday afternoon in Friday Harbor after a morning of light, on-and-off drizzles. The sun had started to emerge, and the small island town was filled with visitors, many drawn to the island hoping to catch a glimpse of…

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Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle spark U.S. women's soccer team to 2-1 win over Nigeria

WASHINGTON — The U.S. women’s soccer team has a long history of playing two-game home series against opponents and being tested more in the second game than the first. That was the case again Tuesday, as the Americans had to fight for a 2-1 win over Nigeria at Audi Field…

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Webb telescope catches Tarantula Nebula in crisp detail

WASHINGTON: A stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula has been captured in crisp detail by NASA's Webb telescope, revealing hitherto unseen features that deepen scientific understanding, the agency said Tuesday.

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GOP Sen. Thom Tillis expects Senate passage of marriage equality bill

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said he expects there will be enough support from his party to pass a marriage equality bill this month.

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Biden speaks to new British prime minister, with allies' ‘special relationship’ at stake

WASHINGTON — With Liz Truss as the new British prime minister, the “special relationship” with the U.S. is on course for redefinition with a conservative leader who is much more of a hard-liner than her predecessor.

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COVID is likely to require yearly booster like flu shot, Fauci says

WASHINGTON — COVID-19 vaccines will largely become an annual vaccination akin to the flu shot, President Joe Biden said Tuesday as his administration urged Americans to seek out newly authorized booster shots tailored to fight the omicron subvariants that are now dominant.

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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll likes 'challenge' of Russell Wilson, Broncos in town

RENTON, Wash. — And so it begins.

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Judge says Fauci, Jean-Pierre must hand over emails sent to social media companies

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Louisiana ruled Tuesday that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci will have to turn over any emails they sent to social media companies about misinformation or the censorship of social media content.

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Shireen Abu Akleh: How Biden team redefined ‘accountability’

Abu Akleh’s niece says Washington’s push to turn the page on the killing of the Al Jazeera journalist is ’embarrassing’.

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White House press secretary rebuffs Sen. Ted Cruz's invitation to see for herself migrants walking across border

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rebuffed Sen. Ted Cruz’s invitation to visit the U.S.-Mexico border with him to witness migrants walking across — a familiar sight for news viewers that Jean-Pierre adamantly denied takes place.

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Raimondo announces strategy to boost US chip manufacturing ahead of Biden’s Ohio trip

WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo on Tuesday unveiled a strategy for the Commerce Department’s disbursal of $50 billion that Congress approved to boost domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips, saying she expected the first money to flow in the spring of 2023.

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Brandon Scherff helping Jaguars prepare for Washington’s defensive front

With Scherff's inside knowledge of the Commanders' front seven, the Jaguars should have a degree of advantage in Week 1.

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U.S. says it will press Israel on rules of engagement after Al Jazeera journalist's killing

Washington will press Israel to review its policies and practices on rules of engagement after the Israel Defense Forces concluded that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely shot by an Israeli soldier, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Biden welcomes new British PM Truss, says looks forward to deepening U.S.-UK ties

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Liz Truss for taking over as the British prime minister on Tuesday and said Washington and London would continue to cooperate on global issues, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Civil rights activist celebrating her birthday among ten killed in Puget Sound plane crash

“Her voice will be missed, I think even by those who hated to see her walk into the meeting,” brother says

Los Angeles Times

Congress mulls data privacy bill that would void California's tougher protections

WASHINGTON — A key congressional committee is pushing a federal bill to bolster protections for consumers' online data privacy, but California lawmakers have launched an aggressive bid to amend or block the legislation because it would unravel the state's own tougher protections.

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EV tax credit may be out of reach for most consumers

WASHINGTON — While the climate, health care and tax law includes an overhaul for the electric-vehicle tax credit, allies and industry representatives have expressed concern that the statute may ultimately benefit too few consumers.

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Privacy advocates demand rules for mobile providers on data use

WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates are demanding standards for mobile service providers’ handling of sensitive customer information, especially location data, after a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into the top 15 carriers revealed a huge variation within the industry’s data retention and consumer privacy protocols.

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Democrats face big legislative to-do list in sprint to midterms

Senate Democrats, fresh off a string of legislative victories, return to Washington this week with a packed agenda before November’s midterm elections, including passing billions more in Ukraine and pandemic aid.

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Xinjiang Red Dates, Linked to Forced Labor, Sold in US

Report says 20% of world’s red dates come from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and are likely the products of forced labor.

The Independent UK

Missing high school footballer found safe – then arrested on suspicion of murder and burglary

Gabriel Davies set off a two-day search in and around Olympia in Washington state last week when his car was found bloodied and abandoned in his family’s driveway

Boston Herald

Kamala Harris stops in Boston for Labor Day breakfast: ‘We know when we fight we win’

BOSTON — Vice President Kamala Harris flew to Boston from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Monday, where she spent just over three hours stumping for Democratic primary hopefuls and meeting with union leaders before jumping back on Air Force Two and flying back to Washington, D.C.

Foreign Affairs

Time to Rethink America’s Nuclear Strategy

How to learn the right lessons from the Cold War.

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