CNN
| Mar 5, 2013
Washington state is struggling to name a new "pot czar" because there are just too many candidates (98 of them) to choose from. Several marijuana mavens are eager to be the expert to help Washington fully implement its new law legalizing recreatio...
Euronews
| Jan 13, 2013
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Moscow to protest the new ban on US citizens adopting Russian children. The law followed one by Washington blacklisting certain Russian officials. But the tit-for-tat move has triggered ...
Slate News
| Jan 6, 2013
This bud's for you, and you may soon be able to pick it up in vending machines in Colorado or Washington, which recently legalized marijuana. Weed vending machines are already in use in states where medical marijuana is legal, and California-based...
Associated Press
| Dec 6, 2012
Hundreds of gay couples in Washington state snapped up marriage licenses starting just after midnight, when the state's voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage came into effect. Because of a three-day waiting period, the first weddings will be ...
Associated Press
| Dec 6, 2012
As of today, the people of Washington state are free to carry around up to an ounce of marijuana -- and marry their same-sex partners while they're at it. Smoking the stuff in public is still banned, though police say ticketing tokers will not be ...
PBS
| Dec 5, 2012
The carbon emissions changing the climate are also causing the world's oceans to acidify at an unprecedented rate. In the Pacific Northwest, waters have become so corrosive that the shells of oysters and other creatures are being eaten away before...
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Mosaic
| Nov 28, 2012
IBA reports that the Israeli Embassy in Washington has released an animated video that ridicules Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' statehood bid at the United Nations. Abbas is seen driving a bus toward a cliff, despite numerous warni...
CompilarizTV
| Nov 23, 2012
Shoppers were injured in scuffles, shot (outside a Florida Walmart), plowed into by a Washington driver supected of being drunk, and busted (along with striking Walmart workers) as bargain-ravenous Americans stampeded into stores across the nation...
Associated Press
| Nov 20, 2012
A fierce winter storm pummeled Oregon and Washington with heavy rains and strong winds that swamped roads, snuffed out power and toppled giant Sequoias. A hunter was killed when a tree fell on his tent.
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...move could pave the way for US and international economic aid for the Horn of Africa nation. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the ne...
— Apr 24, 2012 at 10:23 pm
...US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. Discussions included the transition in Afghanistan, North Korea and political reforms in Bur...
— May 8 at 07:58 am
...Kingdom's borrowing costs. Last year, the US extended an additional grant of $100 million to support the state budget and help the Kingdom addre...
Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho, and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was carved out of the western part of the Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as a settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.
Washington is the 18th most extensive and the 13th most populous of the 50 United States. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along the Puget Sound region of the Salish Sea, an inlet of the Pacific consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, center, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid eastern basin given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the west coast and in the western United States after California.
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