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Damage to a building is seen after an explosion in Palm Springs, Calif., on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

The suspect in an attack on a California fertility clinic believed the world shouldn’t be populated

By Eric Tucker, Gene Johnson, and others

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Sierra Moran, a transgender service member, listens during a press conference in Tacoma, Wash., on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes)

Second federal judge blocks Trump from banning transgender troops in the military: ‘The government’s arguments are not persuasive’

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump administration can stop approving new refugees but it has to allow in ones already accepted, court rules

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Gene Johnson, and others

FILE – A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Tesla owners turn to ‘I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy’ bumper stickers to avoid spike in vehicle torchings

By Jonathan J. Cooper, Gene Johnson, and others

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship temporarily blocked by federal judge who calls it ‘blatantly unconstitutional’

By Gene Johnson, Mike Catalini, and others

In this image made from a video provided by KGW8, authorities investigate smoke pouring out of a ballot box.

‘Direct attack on Democracy’: Hundreds of ballots have been destroyed in drop box fire attacks in Oregon and Washington

By Gene Johnson, Claire Rush, and others

This photo provided by the Washington Department of Ecology shows a derailed BNSF train on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes, Wash. on March 16, 2023. A federal judge on Monday, June 17, 2024 ordered BNSF Railway to pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across its reservation. (Washington Department of Ecology via AP)

BNSF Railway must pay $400m to a Native American tribe for intentionally trespassing by running 100-car crude oil trains over its reservation

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – A Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a 787-10 Dreamliner, sits on the tarmac at their campus in North Charleston, S.C., May 30, 2023. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.” (Gavin McIntyre/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)

Boeing faces new FAA probe after aircraft maker reports that workers falsified inspection records on 787 planes

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – Kelsey Juliana, of Eugene, Ore., a lead plaintiff who is part of a lawsuit by a group of young people who say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future, greets supporters outside a federal courthouse, June 4, 2019, in Portland, Ore. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Gen Z environmentalists fail to convince government to even try their case about constitutional right to life-sustaining climate

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, right, leaves federal court in Seattle on Nov. 21, 2023, after pleading guilty to violations of U.S. anti-money laundering laws. Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces sentencing Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Seattle, where U.S. prosecutors are asking a judge to give him a three-year prison term for allowing rampant money laundering on the platform. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

Binance founder CZ faces possible 3-year jail term for allowing money laundering as judge decides sentence

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

The Waldos

‘It’s a phenomenon’: How 4/20 grew organically from a group of Northern California high schoolers into marijuana’s holiday

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

Linda Bean

Linda Bean, catalogue heiress turned lobster booster and environmentalist turned Trump supporter, dies at 82

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline’s hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Boeing tells senator it can’t find work record for door panel that blew out on Alaska Airlines flight: ‘We have looked extensively’

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

FILE – A Boeing 737 MAX 7 takes off on its first flight on March 16, 2018, in Renton, Wash. Facing severe criticism after a door plug blew out on a 737 Max over Oregon this month, Boeing said Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, that it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify the new model of the plane. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)

After Alaska Airlines 737 Max door plug blowout, Boeing is withdrawing request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of the plane

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press

File – Pilots conduct a pre-flight check in the cockpit of a jet before taking off from Dallas Fort Worth airport in Grapevine, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2020. Aviation experts say the incident on Sunday in which an off-duty pilot, riding in a jump seat in a cockpit, tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews questions about the threat posed by airline workers who have special access to places where passengers can’t go. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Off-duty pilot’s attempt to switch off Horizon Air flight’s engines after using psychedelic mushrooms renews scrutiny of cockpit mental health

By Claire Rush, Gene Johnson, and others