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The foundation was formed in 2000 by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. The former couple had grand ambitions but little experience in global health or philanthropy when they got started. -
President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is crippling an entire industry that hand-harvests geoducks, the world’s largest burrowing clam. -
Members of Vancouver, British Columbia's Filipino community say an attack that killed 11 people and wounded 32 was all the more devastating for coming at an event that celebrated their culture and togetherness. -
The PWHL will expand to eight teams next season by adding Seattle as its second expansion franchise alongside Vancouver, British Columbia. -
The 6-foot-6 French basketball star, and No. 2 overall pick, joins a very experienced roster at the Seattle Storm, who went 25-15 last season. -
On Tuesday the Trump administration laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program that serves more than half a million low-income children. -
Stay patient, Seattle. You too, Las Vegas, and every other city awaiting word on whether an NBA franchise could be headed its way. -
A geographic oddity, Point Roberts, Washington, is the rare U.S. exclave so dependent on Canada’s goodwill that the strain of Trump’s tariff war is inescapable. -
Decarbonization of the fishing fleet has been a target of environmental activists in recent years, but now cuts to funding are putting those plans in jeopardy. -
Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump.
