Washington

The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.

A boy who has been missing from Washington state since at least mid-June was found safe in Missouri, the FBI office in Seattle said Tuesday. Authorities said 8-year-old Breadson John had vanished by June 17, when a welfare check at his home in Vancouver, Washington, just across the state line from Oregon, determined his absence, officials said. On Friday, Breadson…

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The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington has obtained multiple court orders requiring a Tacoma resident to get treatment for her active tuberculosis, officials told NBC News on Friday. The woman has thus far refused to isolate or take the necessary medications, according to Nigel Turner, the department’s division director of Communicable Disease Control. “The court order is in place ordering isolation...

Police say they located the suspect in the random killing of three people at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, after he borrowed a stranger’s cell phone to call his mother and confess to what he had done.

A man was captured on surveillance video attempting to kidnap a barista from the drive-thru window at a Washington state coffee shop.

Police in Washington state are searching for a man who was captured on surveillance video attempting to kidnap a barista from the drive-thru window at an Auburn coffee shop.

Police say a suspect in Washington state attempted to kidnap a barista by pulling her through a drive-thru window on Monday.

As the investigation into the disappearance of missing Cohasett woman Ana Walshe continues, a report from police in Washington, D.C. shows that she once told authorities that her husband threatened to kill her. Ana Walshe has not been seen since Jan. 1. Her husband Brian Walshe has been charged with misleading the authorities investigating her disappearance. The 2014 report obtained…

Two men have been arrested and charged with vandalizing electrical substations in Washington state, attacks that left thousands without power over the holidays, and one suspect told authorities they did it so they could break into a business and steal money, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

The attacks come as federal officials are warning that the U.S. power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism and after a large outage in North Carolina earlier this month that took days to repair.

At least 17,000 people were left without power after four substations were attacked in Pierce County, Washington on Christmas Day

A Massachusetts doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly punching a police officer during the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in federal court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, 68, appeared in District of Columbia federal court by videoconference on charges including felony civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. She accepted the…

Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost of Florida, the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress, says he is struggling to get an apartment in Washington and lost an application fee because his credit is “really bad.”

A Washington barber was in the middle of cutting an 8-year-old child’s hair when a gunman entered the shop and shot him several times.

A Washington barber was shot and killed while cutting an 8-year-old boy’s hair Wednesday evening.

As December approaches, congressional leaders are looking ahead at how best to navigate what’s left of the lame duck session. So much to do, so little time — such is the plight of congressional democrats trying to push through key priorities with just give weeks until republicans take over the House. NBC10 Boston political reporter Alison King has more on...

The attorney general for the District of Columbia is set to hold a news conference related to the NFL’s Washington Commanders. The office of D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says he will make a major announcement Thursday. No details were provided. His office launched an investigation into the team around the time the U.S. House Committee for Oversight and Reform...

A Washington city’s dress code ordinance that says “bikini baristas” must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.

“Smash” star Megan Hilty is mourning the loss of her sister, brother-in-law and their child, who all died in a plane crash near Whidbey Island in Washington.