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Aiming to boost the slow pace of administering COVID-19 vaccinations, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday that the state has turned to Starbucks for help streamlining logistics and setting a new goal to dole out 45,000 doses a day, NBC News reports.

An Associated Press review of records finds that veterans of President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful campaign had key roles in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol

Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., said Wednesday that she supports impeaching President Donald Trump. “My vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fear-based decision,” said Herrera Beutler. “I am not choosing a side. I’m choosing truth. It’s the only way to defeat fear.”

Trump supporters riot at the U.S. Capitol as Congress debates the Electoral College votes expected to name Joe Biden as winner of the presidential election.

More than an hour after the rioting began, Trump urged his supporters to remain peaceful, asserting that “WE are the Party of Law & Order.”

The mayhem at the U.S. Capitol resulted in the deaths of four people and led to 52 arrests.

While sheltering in place Wednesday, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin called on President Donald Trump to put an end to the chaos that ensued after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. “Mr. President, you have got to stop this,” he said. “You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over. Call...

Hundreds of protesters who massed in the nation’s capital to support President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, forcing police to evacuate parts of the complex as some demonstrators breached barricades on the building’s steps. The chaotic scene came after Trump spoke to a large crowd in front of the White House,...

Supporters of President Donald Trump protesting the election results broke into the Senate chamber Wednesday, activating a lockdown for the U.S. Capitol building and curfew for Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser called in National Guard troops to help with planned protests as Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Hundreds of people came to the city of Mossyrock, Washington, last weekend to protest against coronavirus public health restrictions, according to NBC affiliate KING.

A federal judge in Seattle has awarded $10 million to the family of a severely disabled child who was born after a community clinic nurse inadvertently gave the mother a flu shot instead of a birth-control injection.

The shooting of a Black man by Washington state authorities threatens to increase tensions around Portland, Oregon, where protesters against racial injustice have clashed repeatedly with right-wing groups in recent months

Crews in Blaine, Washington, vacuumed Murder Hornets out of a nest housed within a large tree.

Heavily protected crews in Washington state have worked to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

The family of a Washington state professor last seen hiking in Mount Rainier National Park two weeks ago is pleading with officials to continue the active search for the man, NBC News reports.

Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees.

Evidence of six sightings of Asian giant hornets, known as murder hornets, in Washington state have prompted an urgent search for a possible nest, NBC News reports. State agriculture officials are working to find and destroy a nest before the hornets enter their “slaughter phase,” when they kill honeybees, which are crucial for pollinating some of the state’s staple crops,...

Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or beyond, scientists and forecasters say, and the hazy and gunk-filled skies might stick around for even longer.

California, Oregon and Washington state are seeing historic wildfires that have burned faster and farther than ever before, and blanketed large swaths of the U.S. with thick smoke. In California, wildfires have destroyed over 4,000 buildings and engulfed 3.3 million acres of land – an area greater in size than the state of Connecticut. Oregon and Washington have been hit…