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The Trump Department of Justice axed a U.S. attorney less than an hour after his appointment, The New York Times reported.

According to the report, Roger Rogoff led the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle for 54 minutes before he was fired via email by the DOJ. Federal judges in the Western District of Washington unanimously appointed him as the DOJ's top official there, which filled a vacancy that Trump hadn't addressed, the Times added.

The quick dismissal could lead to a "lengthy, difficult" court battle in which Rogoff can argue that Trump lacks the authority to fire him because he was appointed under a statute, according to the Times. ...

A dancer in Madonna’s Celebration Tour fell while dragging the star in a chair mid-concert in Seattle on Sunday, sending the chair and the pop goddess tumbling to the floor. Madonna, 65, didn’t miss a note or a beat. Landing on her back, she quickly flipped onto her stomach, singing all the while, and finished belting out her line in “Open Your Heart to Me.” She then giggled and leaped to her feet, declining offers of assistance. In video posted on social media, Madonna was seen sitting in the chair as the dancer tilted it back and dragged it across the stage. He apparently lost his grip, thou......

Seattle Police Department commanders have recommended possible termination for a union official who downplayed the death of a young woman struck and killed by a fellow officer last January, agreeing with the department's civilian watchdog that the union leader acted unprofessionally. The commanders issued a blistering disciplinary recommendation to police Chief Adrian Diaz on Friday, sweeping aside excuses that Officer Daniel Auderer's comments about the death of 23-year-old graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula were private or police union business. "Even crediting your explanation as true, that ......

SEATTLE — A landslide north of Vancouver has disrupted passenger train service between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Sunday night, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation. The slide, which occurred south of Kelso early Saturday morning, blocked the railroad tracks and triggered a 24-hour moratorium for all passenger trains per BNSF Railway rules, WSDOT spokesperson Janet Matkin said. The moratorium affects several West Coast Amtrak lines, including Coast Starlight trains. Trains previously scheduled to terminate in Seattle will instead terminate in Portland. Buses ......

SEATTLE — A Seattle police officer was put on leave Friday as officials, for the second time this month, called for cultural reform within the department — this time over audio of the white officer using sexist and racist slurs in a dispute with his Chinese American neighbor. Audio published by The Stranger appears to depict Seattle police Officer Burton Hill peppering his neighbor with a barrage of explicit, sexist and racist insults in an August 2022 argument over the neighbor allegedly leaving food scraps outside that could have harmed Hill’s dog. In the audio clip, apparently recorded by t......

People have been expecting some more pardons as President Donald Trump barrels noisily off the stage. But this one feels, at least to local biologists, more like the surprise handing down of a death sentence. Last week, as people and politicians alike were consumed with the fallout of the Capitol riot, the Trump administration put out a "midnight regulation" — a sweeping rule change on your way out the door — that slams the Northwest's signature, struggling northern spotted owl. "It's likely to be the elimination of northern spotted owls in the Pacific Northwest," says Dave Werntz, a forest ec......