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BELLINGHAM, Washington — The Afghan terrorist accused of shooting two National Guard troops had been living a seemingly quiet family life in a $2,000-a-month apartment in this idyllic Washington state town – where neighbors said the FBI busted into his home during a Wednesday raid. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was often seen playing Call of Duty and FIFA inside the bare apartment, which he shared with his hijab-wearing wife and his five kids, stunned neighbors in Bellingham told The Post on Thursday. Neighbors said the refugees — who arrived in 2021 after the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan — had no...

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. - A new study has revealed that Mount Rainier is experiencing a significant reduction in size due to shifting climate patterns. The findings, published in the "Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research" journal, indicate that since 1950, Mount Rainier has decreased by more than 20 feet. Researchers attribute this shrinkage to the melting of snow and ice over the years. Researchers have been tracking the height decline using satellites, laser measurements and historical photographs.

KINGSTON, Jamaica June 23 — The mother of teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo says no one took her seriously before the shootings when she warned U.S. authorities her son was in danger from John Allen Muhammad. In a taped interview aired Sunday with Jamaican television station TVJ, Una James said she told police in Bellingham, Wash., in September 2001 that Muhammad was a bad influence and asked that her son be removed from his care. "They were to blame," James said of police in her first aired interview since her son's arrest. "I told them that I needed help,...

CBS News: Multiple law enforcement officials say the suspect in the shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. today is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, noting he entered the U.S. in 2021

Lacey police have arrested a suspect in connection with the double murder and drive-by shooting that claimed the lives of two teenagers last week. Trequanne Trenelle Wilson-Mason, a 20-year-old from Lacey, was arrested in relation to the Nov. 14 deaths of 16-year-old Alexander Borgen and 17-year-old Deven Borgen. According to court records, the fatal shooting may have been a case of mistaken identity. "My son Deven had all A’s in school, he went to church," Christina Borgen, the boys' mother said in court Wednesday. "My son Alex had changed his life, had all A’s, was doing good." "A good kid,...

President Donald Trump has signaled that the administration could consider relocating Seattle’s 2026 FIFA World Cup matches due to concerns about public safety under incoming socialist and police abolitionist Mayor-elect Katie Wilson. The comments came during a White House press conference alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, where officials discussed preparations for the upcoming World Cup, which will be hosted across 16 cities in the US, as well as cities in Canada and Mexico. When asked about Seattle’s readiness to host six World Cup matches, Trump sharply criticized mayor-elect Wilson, calling her “more than a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled there would be no prison time for a former Alaska Airlines pilot who had taken psychedelic mushrooms days before he tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit.U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio in Portland, Oregon, sentenced Joseph Emerson to time served and three years’ supervised release, ending a case that drew attention to the need for cockpit safety and more mental health support for pilots. Federal prosecutors wanted a year in prison, while his attorneys sought probation.“Pilots are not perfect....

Katie Wilson, 43, was finally declared winner nine days after polls closedPerhaps living in Seattle should inure you to shock. This is the city where, in the name of the George Floyd riots of mid-2020, armed fanatics took over a four-block chunk of downtown, a development Seattle’s moonbeam mayor of the day said reminded her fondly of the Summer of Love, only for the good vibes to dissipate when the commune’s residents started shooting one another on a nightly basis. And the squalor: in recent years, the general look of America’s Emerald City has passed from one characterized by its...

SEATTLE — Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is addressing the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon. After thanking her family, campaign team, volunteers, and canvassers, Wilson criticized the large amounts of money poured into her opponents' campaigns. "They might have the money, we had the people," Wilson triumphantly continued. "The working people of our city are tired. They are ready for something new, something more hopeful and just and equitable.” Wilson also listed what she wants to achieve as mayor. "I want everyone in this great city of ours to have a roof over...

Labor unrest is becoming a tradition at the leftist coffee chain Starbucks. On Thursday, as the Seattle-based business launched its “Red Cup Day” — its most anticipated promotion of the year, meant to kick off the holiday season — its unionized workers were trying to spoil the occasion. Strikes were planned in more than 40 cities, according to news reports, which could get in the way of customers enjoying their Sugar Cookie Lattes. “We’re turning the Red Cup Season into the Red Cup Rebellion,” Amos Hall, a barista at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Starbucks, told ABC News. “Starbucks’ refusal to settle...

Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September. Wilson said during her mayoral run that corporate grocery chains should not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it and expressed support for a “public option,” meaning that government-run grocery stores would be established. Her proposal emerged at a time when Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had promised to establish government-run grocery stores throughout the city. “Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains...

Seattle might elect its first democratic socialist mayor by an incredibly slim margin of 65 votes if the candidate maintains the same percentage of votes she received in the most recent batch of counted ballots. Katie Wilson, 43, closed the gap between herself and mayoral incumbent Bruce Harrell to within 4,300 votes on Friday - a less than two percent gap - as ballots continue to trickle in since election day on November 4. The incredibly tight race, which has swung back and forth in the week since the general election, still has 50,000 ballots remaining to be counted. Former...

Redmond police turned off their city’s Flock Safety cameras last week after masked, unidentified officers — later identified as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — arrested seven people, at least three less than a mile from one or more of the city’s cameras. During a City Council session Oct. 27, Redmond police Chief Darrell Lowe said no federal agency had accessed the city’s Flock data, but agreed to suspend officers’ access to the system until city officials had discussed ending Redmond’s contract with the company. Redmond City Council member Angie Nuevacamina said Thursday the proximity of the arrests to...

A Washington congresswoman is pointing the finger at daylight saving time for her son’s recent mishap in which he incurred a bad bloody nose, using the incident as a springboard to do away with the semiannual changing of the clocks altogether. “My kid just got his first gusher bloody nose. Thank you Daylight Savings Time for this annual rug pull,” Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, 37, perplexingly wrote on X and Facebook Sunday. “And it’s not just about tired kids bumping into s–t – research shows car and other accidents spike in the days and weeks following the time change,”...

Aman from Kent, Washington, has been charged by federal prosecutors in a scheme linked to the thwarted Halloween terror plot in Michigan, according to court filings. Saed Ali Mirreh, 19, who is a U.S. citizen, is accused of conspiring to provide support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to a federal complaint in the Western District of Washington. Authorities say he acted as a fundraiser for travel to Syria and coordinated with overseas contacts. RELATED | Two Michigan men face charges in alleged Halloween terror attack plot, FBI says. The case is tied to a broader investigation in Michigan...

A Seattle sex offender who had previously been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole is now accused of the 1994 murder of 14-year-old Tanya Frazier. On Thursday, King County prosecutors charged Mark Anthony Russ, 57, with one count of murder in the first degree with a sexual motivation after Seattle police said they linked him to Frazier's murder through DNA. In 1996, Russ was given a life sentence under Washington's persistent offender law, also known as "3 strikes," after being convicted of several violent crimes in the 1980s and 1990s. His life sentence was vacated due...

The illegal alien truck driver responsible for a fatal crash earlier this year in Florida failed his commercial drivers’ license (CDL) test in Washington a staggering 10 times within a two-month window. Between March and May 2023, Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, tested 10 times to try to obtain a CDL license to drive trucks in the state of Washington. He failed every single time, according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin and the Florida attorney general’s office. Yet, insanely, not only did the state of Washington eventually give Singh a CDL license anyway, but the state...

As early as Thursday the Justice Department and the FBI will announced the indictment of two men who carried out the attack on the USS Cole which killed 17 United States Sailors more than two years ago, ABC News has learned.One of the men, Fahd Mohammad Ahmed Al Quoso, may also be linked to the 9/11 terrorist plot, sources invloved in the investigation told ABC News.Sources said Al Quoso said an operative who would eventally become a suicide bomber in the Cole attack each carried $18,000 in cash money belts to Bangkok, Thailand in 1999, and gave it to Waleed...

They Don't Support the Troops by Lisa De Pasquale Posted Jul 27, 2006 The constant mantra of the radical left is that while they don’t support the war, they do support the troops. Other than making hollow and flippant claims of support, the anti-war left has done little for the troops or their families. To the contrary, their actions show how little respect they have for the military. In a recent interview with CodePink’s Troops Home Fast cofounder Diane Wilson, she dismisses the troops by comparing their real sacrifices and efforts to CodePink’s faux fast, which includes liquids like...

...as the fourth largest aircraft manufacturing hub...IN THE WORLD. BOOMITY I'll bet y'all didn't see that coming. Neither did anyone else, except for a few visionaries back in 2008. That was when Airbus, as part of European consortium EADS, worked with Northrup Grumman to get in on the new, next-generation Air Force tanker deal, promised to build the bulk of the airframes in the United States, and won the initial contract for the project. Long story short, screaming and kicking by Boeing, years of skullduggery and John McCain machinations went on, and by 2011, EADS and Airbus had lost the...