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Metallurgist gets 2.5 years for faking steel-test results for Navy subs

Elaine Marie Thomas pleaded guilty to fraud last November.

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Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs

Elaine Marie Thomas pleaded guilty to fraud Monday.

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This Jan. 23, 2020, photo shows the National Archives on Sand Point, Wash., that has about a million boxes of generally unique, original source documents and public records.

Washington, Oregon, 29 tribes sue over plan to sell National Archives building in Seattle

The government is planning to sell the vast warehouse under a law aimed at unloading excess federal property, but the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Monday says the building is anything but “excess.”

In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb.

US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail

A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election.

In this April 2, 2020, file photo, a United States Postal Service worker makes a delivery with gloves and a mask in Warren, Mich.

States ask judge to reverse changes at US Postal Service

A group of states suing over service cuts at the U.S. Postal Service is asking a federal judge to immediately undo some of them, saying the integrity of the upcoming election is at stake.

Feds say company provided subpar steel for US Navy subs

For decades, the U.S. Navy’s leading supplier of high-strength steel for submarines provided subpar metal because one of the company’s longtime employees falsified lab results.

USS John Stennis, Naval Base Kitsap

Judge: Military funds for Washington state’s Naval Base Kitsap can’t go to Trump border wall

President Donald Trump may not divert $89 million intended for a military construction project in Washington state to build his border wall, a U.S. judge in Seattle ruled Thursday.

US speeds cases of military interpreters, others blocked by travel ban

President Donald Trump's administration has agreed to speed up the cases of some former interpreters for the U.S. military in Iraq and hundreds of other refugees whose efforts to move to the United States have been in limbo since he announced his travel bans three years ago.

Will a case tied to a Navy base scuttle Trump’s border wall?

The Pentagon has shifted $3.6 billion from military construction projects — one of them in Washington state — to build 175 miles of border fencing in four states.

Island residents grumbling over Growlers

It’s the second recent case challenging the Navy’s operations; the state of Washington sued in July, saying the Navy failed to adequately consider the effect the expanded flight operations would have on people or wildlife.

Coast Guard had searched for the young killer whale

A Coast Guard helicopter, 10 vessels, whale watch crews and other teams on both sides of the border were involved in the search.

Judge: Trump’s ban on transgender troops on hold until trial

A U.S. judge in Seattle has ordered President Donald Trump not to ban transgender troops from serving in the military, saying it’s unclear whether recent changes to his administration’s policy are constitutional.

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