President Barack Obama

SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama will visit Seattle Friday to attend fundraisers for Gov. Jay Inslee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The White House says the president plans to arrive Friday afternoon and will speak just before 7 p...

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — President Barack Obama's sister will be in the Seattle area this weekend to present a scholarship named for their mother at her alma mater, Mercer Island High School. KPLU-FM reports  Ann Dunham, or Stanley Ann Dunham as she was known in her youth, was a member of the Mercer Island High School Class of 1960...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State Democratic Party officials say that President Barack Obama will be in Seattle next month for a private fundraiser for Gov. Jay Inslee. Party spokesman Jamal Raad said Friday that the fundraiser will be on June 24 at the Washington state Convention Center...

The Senate - by unanimous consent - passed its own version of the Global Food Security Act, moving President Barack Obama's Feed the Future program one step closer to law. The bill would authorize the $1 billion a year agricultural development initiative that the administration launched in 2010, as well as an emergency food security program that the U...