The Latest Health The FDA will lift warnings on hormone therapy for menopause Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated. Sydney Lupkin National Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Alyssa Kapasi Politics Syrian President Sharaa makes the 1st White House visit by a Syrian head of state President Ahmed al-Sharaa once had ties to al-Qaida and had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Then he led the rebel forces that toppled former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year. The Associated Press Politics Who has President Trump pardoned and why? This week, President Trump pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says. Joe Hernandez Education UW loses federal funding for migrant students A federal program that helps young people from migrant families attend colleges, including the University of Washington, is not operating this year after the Trump administration eliminated funding for migrant education. Ann Dornfeld Seattle homebuyers have more power, but less confidence Seattle’s red hot housing market is shifting. But that doesn’t mean more people are buying homes. Seattle Times reporter Alexis Weisend explains what’s keeping buyers back. Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers Politics ELECTION PARDONS President Trump has issued pardons for 77 people, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who backed his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Leila Fadel Politics Senate moves toward reopening government as moderate Democrats join GOP for vote Senate lawmakers voted late Sunday on a measure that would reopen the government, with enough moderate Democrats joining Republicans to support the initial vote. Leila Fadel Politics Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto talks about efforts to end the government shutdown NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada about the latest efforts in the Senate to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Steve Inskeep Politics Trump grants pardons to Giuliani, Meadows, others linked to 2020 election efforts The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Rebecca Rosman Prev 732 of 1648 Next Sponsored
Health The FDA will lift warnings on hormone therapy for menopause Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated. Sydney Lupkin
National Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Alyssa Kapasi
Politics Syrian President Sharaa makes the 1st White House visit by a Syrian head of state President Ahmed al-Sharaa once had ties to al-Qaida and had a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. Then he led the rebel forces that toppled former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year. The Associated Press
Politics Who has President Trump pardoned and why? This week, President Trump pardoned allies accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It is part of an uptick in "insider pardons" issued in his second term, one legal expert says. Joe Hernandez
Education UW loses federal funding for migrant students A federal program that helps young people from migrant families attend colleges, including the University of Washington, is not operating this year after the Trump administration eliminated funding for migrant education. Ann Dornfeld
Seattle homebuyers have more power, but less confidence Seattle’s red hot housing market is shifting. But that doesn’t mean more people are buying homes. Seattle Times reporter Alexis Weisend explains what’s keeping buyers back. Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers
Politics ELECTION PARDONS President Trump has issued pardons for 77 people, including his former attorney Rudy Giuliani and former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who backed his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Leila Fadel
Politics Senate moves toward reopening government as moderate Democrats join GOP for vote Senate lawmakers voted late Sunday on a measure that would reopen the government, with enough moderate Democrats joining Republicans to support the initial vote. Leila Fadel
Politics Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto talks about efforts to end the government shutdown NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada about the latest efforts in the Senate to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Steve Inskeep
Politics Trump grants pardons to Giuliani, Meadows, others linked to 2020 election efforts The pardons include 77 allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Rebecca Rosman