Tacoma

Workers are shown in the kitchen of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, during a media tour, Sept. 10, 2019.

A federal jury ruled that a Washington state detention center owes detainees minimum wage

Justice

It’s a fight that’s years in the making for immigrant rights advocates and current and former detainees, who would also qualify for back pay for work they did inside the prison.

A detainee talks with an employee in an exam room in the medial unit during a media tour at Northwest ICE Processing Center

ICE gets sued to release immigrant detainees amid COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19
The Vancover Notch as seen from Commencement Bay in Tacoma, Washington.

How a little divot near Mount Rainier became Vancouver Notch

Culture

Senate to Vote on Contraception Mandate

The Singing Garbagemen

The World

Majority of Public Deems Afghanistan War ‘Not Worth Fighting’

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 60 percent of Americans say the Afghanistan war is “not worth fighting.” This is a record low in public support of the war. Mary Galeti, the wife of Afghanistan veteran First Lieutenant Russell Galeti, and Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs and author of “How Wars End: […]