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Washington becomes the 10th state to ban conversion therapy
Washington has become the tenth state to pass a ban on conversion therapy on minors. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the legislation banning the debunked and dangerous practice on Wednesday. The law takes effect in June, and will deem any therapy attempting to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of any person under the age of 18.
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Mystery surrounds SUV cliff plunge that killed entire family
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nobody answered the door when a child-welfare worker went to the Washington state home of the big, free-spirited Hart family to investigate a neighbor's complaint that the youngsters were going hungry.
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Mueller has reportedly decided to move forward without an interview with Trump
The special counsel Robert Mueller's team is now moving forward on the assumption that it will not secure an interview with President Donald Trump, NBC News reported. Trump's lawyers and Mueller's team had been negotiating over the terms of an interview between the two sides for months.
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Zinke backs off $70 Grand Canyon entrance fee
The Interior Department is increasing fees at the most popular national parks to $35 per vehicle, backing down from an earlier plan that would have forced visitors to pay $70 per vehicle to visit the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and other iconic parks. A change announced Thursday will boost fees at 17 popular parks by $5, up from the current $30 but far below the figure Interior proposed last fall.
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Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site
As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.
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White House claims 'clerical error' led to drastic change in Iran statement
A one-letter mistake on an official White House statement led to consternation and questions about official US policy toward Iran on Monday, and a quiet correction did little to quell the matter. In the written statement sent to reporters around 7:30 p.m. ET, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declared that newly unveiled Israeli intelligence proved "Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program."
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After 24 days out of sight, Melania Trump finally reappears
Finally, Melania Trump has reappeared. After more than three weeks out of the public eye, the first lady strolled into a White House event Monday for military families and swept away the wild speculation that she was incapacitated or had otherwise vanished.
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10-year-old finds way to honor local civil rights leader decades after his death
Sarah Haycox, 10, says she was walking through a park in Shoreline, Washington, when she came across something curious. It was a stone with a plaque and a tribute. It said: Edwin T. Pratt, 1930 - 1969. "I'm like, 'Wow, that's a really short life," said Sarah. "I just did the quick math in my head and we're like, 'He died at 39.'"
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DC restaurant expels transgender woman who used women’s restroom
A D.C. restaurant asked a transgender woman for ID when she tried to use the women’s restroom and kicked her out when she refused. Charlotte Clymer, an activist who works with the Human Rights Campaign, was celebrating a bachelorette party on Friday with friends at Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar in Northwest D.C. when she was stopped by a staff member as she tried to use the women’s restroom.
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Air Force declines to charge colonel accused of sexually, physically abusing boys
The Air Force has declined to charge a senior military doctor accused of sexually and physically abusing two elementary-school-aged boys despite pleas from Air Force lawyers appointed to advocate for them, interviews and documents obtained by USA TODAY show. The allegations against Air Force Col. Eric Holt, a battlefield physician who was severely wounded in Afghanistan, were dismissed June 15 after an Air Force two-star general determined that evidence military and civilian officials had uncovered was “inconclusive.”
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Virgin Orbit wins FAA license for first LauncherOne mission
Virgin Orbit has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration for the first launch of its LauncherOne vehicle, which the company hopes to perform later this summer. The FAA issued the license June 29 for the first launch of the air-launch system, using the LauncherOne rocket flown from a customized Boeing 747 that takes off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The payload for that launch is identified as a “mass simulator with CubeSat,” but doesn’t specify the identity of the cubesat or cubesats that will fly on the mission.
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Engine tests underway for DARPA spaceplane program
A space shuttle-era main engine is undergoing a series of daily test firings to demonstrate its suitability for use on a reusable spaceplane under development. The Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-22 engine is in the midst of a series of 10 100-second engine firings over the course of 10 days at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. As of July 2 the company has completed six such tests and was on track to complete the rest on schedule.
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Missing Norfolk Soldier from Korean War to be buried at Arlington
Elmore B. Goodwin of Norfolk was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, bringing some peace of mind to a family that had waited decades for closure. The Army Sgt. 1st Class was 25-years-old when he was killed during the Korean War and his family and loved ones had been waiting 68 years for this day, with the only hope coming when they were contacted about Goodwin possibly being found a few years ago.
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FBI seeks motive after U.S. airline worker stole plane and crashed it
Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle's airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed onto a sparsely populated island.
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White Nationalists Leaders Sneak Out of D.C. Rally After Getting Surrounded by Thousands of Protesters
The racists wanted a show of force, a two-hour rally, and the respect of the nation’s capital. They got none of it. Instead, the two dozen or so white supremacists were outnumbered by more than 1,000 protesters. The group relied all day on a heavy police presence to escort their rally and then, before it was even scheduled to start, they fled in police vans. Unite the Right II, meant to mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville hate rally...
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Trump eyes Erik Prince plan to privatize U.S. war in Afghanistan
President Donald Trump is increasingly venting frustration to his national security team about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and showing renewed interest in a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to privatize the war, current and former senior administration officials said. Prince's idea, which first surfaced last year during the president's Afghanistan strategy review, envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a special U.S. envoy for the war who would report directly to the president.
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Canada to stick to guns at NAFTA talks despite Trump pressure
The United States and Canada have made progress in talks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, and officials from the two sides will work together into the night to flesh out areas for further discussion, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday.
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On Washington's McNeil Island, the only residents are 214 dangerous sex offenders
Civil commitment centers are meant as a community safeguard and a means of providing treatment for offenders, but they’re riddled with controversies
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As the U.S. punts on global warming, Washington state eyes a carbon tax
"It could be a game-changer in the fight against climate change," the executive director of the Sierra Club said.
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Washington bill would make it legal to compost human remains into soil
Would you prefer to be cremated or buried in a casket? Washington might give residents an additional option if it becomes the first US state to legalize an unusual end-of-life practice -- composting human remains. "Recomposting" -- which advertises as more environmentally friendly than traditional funeral practices -- is a process where a human body is quickly decomposed using heat-loving microbes and beneficial bacteria.
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