Sixty years ago, the political landscape in the U.S. was drastically different than it is now. Instead of acting solely along party lines, lawmakers worked together, often across the aisle, to find ...

Tom Foley, the World Cup final television match official and Premiership referee, oversaw more than half of Exeter Chiefs’ win over Leicester Tigers a fortnight ago with three fractured ribs. Foley ...

Former Speaker of the House and Spokane native, Tom Foley, has died at the age of 84. Foley served 30 years in the House representing Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District, more than five ...

WASHINGTON — Tall and courtly, Tom Foley served 30 years in the House when partisan confrontation was less rancorous than today and Democrats had dominated for decades. He crowned his long political ...

"The Gentleman Speaker: Conversations with Tom Foley" will air on KHQ-TV on Saturday at 4 p.m. As a young chief of staff to House Speaker Tip O’Neill following Democrats’ sound defeat in the 1980 ...

WASHINGTON – Tom Foley, the courtly former speaker of the U.S. House who lost his seat when Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994, has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84. His wife ...

SEATTLE — Former Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted ...

Anyone who thinks world affairs and national politics are tense now should consider the 10 days before Spokane native Tom Foley was elected speaker of the House. Student protesters were facing down ...

Former House Speaker Tom Foley has died. The Washington Democrat spent 30 years in the House until he lost his seat in the 1995 Republican revolution. He went on to serve as ambassador to Japan under ...