Stephens also highlighted the court’s Blake decision. In the landmark ruling in 2021, the state Supreme Court struck down Washington’s law criminalizing drug possession. As a result, convictions under ...

The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out ...

An executive order is in the works that would halt U.S. funding for research that makes viruses that are more virulent or ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.

It’s been five years since the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak was recorded in Washington state. Health officials announced the first documented case in the U.S. in Snohomish County on Jan. 21, 2020 ...

The African Union expressed dismay Wednesday over President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump began his second term Monday with a sweeping order aimed at reversing dozens of former President ...

One of President Trump’s first executive orders removes the U.S. from the global health organization, which experts say is ...

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law ...

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the ...

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