World Relief Tri-Cities offices are off North Columbia Center Boulevard in Richland. It’s southeastern Washington’s only refugee resettlement agency. They helped 1,900 refugees resettle in the Tri-Cities from 2019 to 2024. Bob Brawdy [email protected]

The decision leaves refugees who have completed a lengthy process stranded abroad and facing extended separation from loved ones already in the U.S.

President Trump took office Monday, marking the beginning of a new era in Washington. The changing of the guard was, perhaps, marked most significantly by sweeping new executive actions that will have far-reaching consequences on swaths of the electorate.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.

The pair of mandates will effectively silo U.S. public health agencies from their international counterparts and sever the American public, health providers, and research hubs from information about infectious diseases,

He did not offer clear details on what he would replace it with, but indicated he wants to move more of the disaster management responsibility to the states.

President Donald Trump is heading into the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power. The president is also heading to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday re-designated Yemen's Houthi movement, known formally as Ansar Allah, as a "foreign terrorist organization", the White House said.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday designated Yemen's Houthi movement, known formally as Ansar Allah, as a "foreign terrorist organization", the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington,

President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday re-designating the Houthis as a foreign terror organization after the Biden administration scrapped the label in February 2021. The Houthis, an Iran-backed militia in Yemen,