Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services received at least $62 million in government funds to resettle Somali refugees in Minnesota, as researchers raise questions about fraud, refugee status verification, and concentrated resettlement, while the Utah-based LDS Church has donated millions to national resettlement groups.
Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal defended transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports by saying teenagers’ brains aren’t fully developed until 25, after being pressed on a Camas High School cross country protest.
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Susan Collins and Mike Rounds all received envelopes containing a suspicious white powder on Friday, joining more than a dozen lawmakers’ offices targeted in a mailing spree now under FBI investigation.
The State Department sanctioned Cuba’s BICSA bank for servicing Iran’s U.S.-sanctioned Karafarin Bank, prompting condemnation from Havana as Washington warns foreign institutions to cut ties by November 14.
Knicks guard Jalen Brunson says the championship hat he wore after New York’s title win has sat sealed in a bag ever since, and he’s too afraid of the smell to open it.
Billy Joel says he’s currently banned from driving and unsure when he can tour again after his 2025 diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus, with doctors comparing each concert’s impact to a concussion.
A Guatemalan man deported twice before crossing into Texas a third time told a federal judge in McAllen that Border Patrol agents saved his life after pulling him and 38 others from a burning tractor-trailer near Falfurrias in June.
Saudi Arabia’s military coalition says it intercepted a cruise missile near Medina as Iran-backed Houthi forces continued strikes on Saudi airports and attacked the presidential palace in Aden, Yemen.
A bear wandered through the Mammoth Lakes Library in Mono County, California, before dawn Wednesday, leaving on its own before staff arrived and with no confirmed food taken.
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The WIAA says it cannot bar males from girls’ sports in Washington even if its members vote to, because the change would violate state law — leaving the question to voters deciding Initiative 638 on Nov. 3.
