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It has an incongruous feel about it, like a diamond pressed in a phonebook. It’s the Alpine Lakes Wilderness and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act: Read more »

In a report issued at a Capitol Hill seminar Dec. 16, the Center for Data Innovation called for "comprehensive national strategies for the Internet of Things to ensure that the technology develops cohesively and rapidly." Read more »

Some take out second mortgages to fund their own research. Others give up and leave the U.S. to pursue less financially fraught pastures. The majority spend up to 55 percent of their time churning out grants that have only a 10 percent chance of success. All are desperate to make strides against cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other… Read more »

When a reporter enters the Boyer household on Northeast 28th Place, the two young boys — Andre, 6, and his brother, Luke, 4 — are clearly excited. They talk in a mix of French and English and grab hold of a leg and a hand or two. Jason and Jennifer Boyer adopted Andre and Luke from the Democratic Republic of Congo roughly three years ago.… Read more »

The U.S. House of Representatives, casting off its year-long dysfunction, on Thursday passed a five-year, $305 billion transportation bill that includes a provision reviving the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The legislation moved across the U.S. Capitol and was passed late last night by the Senate. It goes to President Obama for signature. The Boeing Co. is the… Read more »

It’s official. Community efforts to prevent a proposed radio tower farm from being built on the Point have succeeded. November 30 was the last day that BBC Broadcasting could appeal the most recent legal ruling that the proposed array of five 150-foot AM radio towers was not allowed under existing zoning. Their failure to do so amounted to their abandoning… Read more »

U.S. representative Suzan DelBene (D-1, WA) is one of the Democrats sitting on a special 14-member house committee that the Republicans set up to investigate Planned Parenthood. The investigations were prompted by undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials that appear to catch Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of fetal tissue for profit;… Read more »

A group of 94 U.S. House Democrats led by Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) introduced on Thursday a congressional resolution that would designate June 26 as “LGBT Equality Day.” The day selected for the occasion marks the anniversary of three monumental U.S. Supreme Court decisions in favor of gay rights: Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 ruling striking down state sodomy bans; Windsor… Read more »

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The U.S. government may soon need a warrant to access your old emails, thanks to a bill that seeks to close a decades-old loophole that was considered on Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Read more »