On Monday, May 2, Washington OBGYN Diane Horvath-Cosper filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services. The doctor, who is an abortion provider, alleges that MedStar Washington Hospital Center violated her right by imposing a “gag order” that prevented her from speaking publicly about…

A 22-year-old student at the University of Washington has died of her injuries following an attack by her boyfriend, also a UW student. Casey S. Henderson, 21, is being held on $1 million bail; police say he beat and choked Katy Straalsund while high on LSD.

Joe Kennedy, the coach of a Washington state high school football team, has been placed on leave after he wouldn’t stop praying at games. The school district says it’s to avoid liability, which is probably true. It’s convenient timing, too, considering that the Satanic Temple has begun demanding to be allowed to…

Bristol Palin, scion of Sarah Palin, seven months pregnant in an “I got ahead of myself” situation, is mad about birth control. Specifically, she is mad about Washington teenagers having access to low-cost, long-acting, reversible birth control like IUDs. OK, Bristol. Let’s do this. You really want to do this?

Last night, Kim Davis’s lawyer and an obscure Catholic magazine claimed that Kim Davis met with the Pope in Washington D.C last week. This morning, Davis told ABC she did totally meet with the Pope. It all sounded like bullshit, but indeed, the Vatican has briefly confirmed the meeting took place and that they don’t…

Sofi Cruz, the five-year-old daughter of Oaxacan immigrants to Los Angeles, was carried over a security barrier today in Washington and taken to greet Pope Francis. The little girl hugged him ecstatically around the neck, then handed him a letter asking him to fight for immigrants.

If last year’s viral video of a woman being swarmed by rabbits on a Japanese island was a manifestation of your wildest dream, congrats, bunny lover: You now have a chance of that happening to you, right here in the good ol’ U.S.A. You just have to venture 30 miles north of Seattle to Whidbey Island, where hundreds of…

Tillie and Phoebe are two dogs who were lost for almost a week in the woods in Washington state. Phoebe wound up trapped inside a concrete cistern in a ravine and couldn’t get out, so Tillie would leave every day to go find help. She would then return to stand guard over her best friend.

At 3:30 a.m. on Friday morning, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, WA was set on fire. Investigators have determined the cause of the fire to be arson.

Izabel Laxamana, a 13-year-old girl in Tacoma, Washington died by suicide after jumping off a highway overpass on Friday, May 29. Days before, Laxamana’s father Jeff had reportedly punished her for an unspecified transgression by cutting off her hair and uploading a video to YouTube. There’s now a controversy brewing…

For the rest of the day, I will be picturing DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton in a Capitol Hill snow war with Ted Cruz.