Biden's nominee to serve as Israel ambassador faces GOP grilling over past Iranian nuclear policies

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While senators on both side of the aisle are eager to confirm a nominee to serve as ambassador to Israel, Senate Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday questioned whether President Joe
Why Republican Jim Jordan's House speaker bid is being blocked by moderates in his party

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Moderate House Republicans and institutionalists coalesced this week as the key opposition to Rep. Jim Jordan’s ascent to speaker. It’s the latest twist to what has become a weekslong fight among conservatives over
“I was done”: Sylvester Stallone reflects on rejection and redemption in trailer to Netflix documentary 'Sly'

Netflix Netflix has debuted the trailer to its documentary Sly, about the unlikely rise, the unexpected fall and the later-in-life redemption of Sylvester Stallone. The film, which drops on November 3, tracks Stallone’s career starting as an
Court employee arrested for approaching Donald Trump during civil trial

Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A court employee was arrested Wednesday after she tried to approach former President Donald Trump while he was seated in the courtroom during his civil trial in lower Manhattan. As the trial
Michigan Gov. Whitmer's office reports breach of summer home

John Nacion/WireImage (LANSING, Mich.) — A person attempted to breach Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s summer home in August, just months after the conviction of 9 men in a plot to kidnap the governor, according to a statement from
Warner Bros. marketing head says “Barbenheimer” phenomenon was “absolutely a surprise”

Warner Bros. Pictures – Universal One of the biggest entertainment stories of the year was the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon — the mash-up of two very different release-date twinsies, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Greta Gerwig‘s cotton candy-colored comedy starring Margot
People with HIV at higher risk of COVID reinfection: CDC

Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — People with HIV are at increased risk of being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new federal data. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control
Pete Davidson's 'SNL' season debut up nearly 20% from last year

NBC/Rosalind O’Connor Imagine if the Swifties knew Taylor and Travis would be on? NBC says Saturday Night Live‘s 49th season debut starring Pete Davidson — and with a last-minute, hush-hush assist from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Netflix christening its restoration of famed Egyptian Theatre with screening, Q&A for David Fincher's 'The Killer'

Netflix Wednesday, October 18, marks the 101st birthday of Los Angeles’ famed Egyptian Theatre, and Netflix is in the mood to celebrate. The streaming giant and the American Cinematheque undertook a three-year-long restoration of the landmark first
Breaking ground and building a better transportation system
Last month, in collaboration with Sound Transit, the City of Kirkland, design-builder Graham Contracting Ltd., and many regional partners, we celebrated the groundbreaking of the I-405/NE 85th St Interchange and Inline BRT Station Project.