A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans’ messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents ahead of a critical April deadline.

The lawsuit challenges a large-scale immigration raid that swept up hundreds of Latino community members— including U.S. citizens and children — during a search tied to alleged gambling.

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.

State lawmakers in Olympia are in the final hours of the 60-day 2026 legislative session. Before adjourning sine die, they’ll have to approve operating, transportation, and capital budgets and will ...

House Speaker Chip Neiman announced Thursday he's running for Sen. Ogden Driskill's senate seat. Driskill wasn't going to run again but changed his ...

This week, the Washington House of Representatives debated — for more than 24 hours — and then approved an income tax on people who make more than a million dollars a year. We hear some of the ...