Democrat Bob Ferguson criticized Republican Dave Reichert's stance on abortion while Reichert promised to veto any new tax proposals during the first debate between the Washington state gubernatorial candidates Tuesday.

U.S. authorities are preparing to file criminal charges after the Trump campaign said in August that some of its internal communications were hacked and blamed the Iranian government, the Washington Post reported on Thursday,

If for some reason he were to lose, he will contest the validity of the election, just like he did last time,” Sen. Mitt Romney said of the former president.

Coming up on Washington Week with The Atlantic: Debate Fallout:  With just 54 days to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to build on the momentum from her strong debate performance against former President Donald Trump.

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost unseemly to be perceived as campaigning for the office, historians tell NPR.

A deadly opioid epidemic. The housing shortage and cost-of-living crisis. Climate change. Farmworkers' protections. These are a few of the topics discussed Tuesday night in a debate between the two candidates running to be Washington's next governor.

SEATTLE — Washington state gubernatorial candidates Bob Ferguson and Dave Reichert are debating the top issues Tuesday, Sept. 10.

A Republican who wants smaller government will face off with a Democratic incumbent this November in the race for Washington’s lieutenant governor.

In Washington’s first statewide ballot recount in a primary election since 1960, Democrat Dave Upthegrove barely edged out Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson to secure a spot on the general election ballot in the race for the state office that manages millions of acres of public lands.

Washington voters have more than a month to go before general election ballots are sent by mail, but voters in some states will get the chance to cast ballots much sooner. The big picture: While Election Day — Nov.

A group calling itself Progress for Cane Hill gathered signatures from registered voters in the Cane Hill 1 voting precinct and the Cane Hill 2 voting precinct. The effort was was blocked by the county, then ordered to be placed on the ballot by a local circuit judge, and is still in litigation.