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seattletimes.com | Aleenah Ansari
Seattle is a great place to discover public art, explore a museum or soak up the sun with views of Puget Sound. Use this guide for days when you’re looking for a cost-effective activity or when you want to splurge. The Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum have a collection of permanent and rotating exhibits with pieces from local and touring artists.
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seattletimes.com | Elise Takahama
King County public health officials have confirmed two more measles cases in Washington residents, and warned of other possible exposures to the infectious disease over the past two weeks, including at Costco in Issaquah and a couple local swimming pools. An adult and a child who live in the same household in King County tested positive after hosting an international visitor who reported being ill, according to Public Health — Seattle & King County.
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seattletimes.com | Jake Offenhartz
NEW YORK (AP) — On Tuesday night, shortly before polls closed in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, and less than an hour until the first signs of his seismic upset over Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani was in a Brooklyn park, searching for a ride.
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seattletimes.com | Elise Takahama
The labor union that represents more than 2,400 health care staffers at Valley Medical Center is suing the hospital in an attempt to pause widespread layoffs and clinic cuts announced earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed this week in King County Superior Court, alleges that Valley’s executive leaders do not have the authority to eliminate certain clinical care services without the approval of the hospital’s publicly elected board of commissioners, per state law and the board’s bylaws.
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seattletimes.com | Paul Roberts |Paige Cornwell |Jessica Fu |Alex Halverson
With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez set to marry — spectacularly, controversially — Friday in Venice, comparisons with the original “tech bro” wedding some 30 years ago show just how much Big Tech has grown in both wealth and power. Bill Gates’ wedding, on the Hawaiian island of Lanai on New Year’s Day 1994, was considered a lavish display of the success and prestige of the co-founder of Microsoft who was then America’s second-richest man.
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seattletimes.com | Lynda V. Mapes
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte Falconer, Mike and Becky Hughes, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. QUARTZ CREEK, Lane County, Ore.
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seattletimes.com | Kanis Leung
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top American diplomat said Thursday that the policies of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments have curtailed freedoms, pointing to the case of jailed prominent activist Jimmy Lai and what he called “transnational regression.” At a reception for the U.S. Independence Day, U.S. Consul General Gregory May, who will join the U.S. Embassy in Beijing next month after a three-year term in Hong Kong, told reporters he is a “big fan“ of Hong Kong, and that its people and...
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seattletimes.com | Molly Quell
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally approved plans Wednesday to set up a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The special tribunal will be created through an agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe, the continent’s top human rights body. Zelenskyy visited the Strasbourg-based organization for the first time as part of the announcement.
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seattletimes.com | Michael Levenson
Lane Hayes was flying home to North Carolina on Wednesday morning when, just seconds after his plane took off from Las Vegas, he heard a popping noise that “literally sounded like a gunshot.” Hayes, who is 38 and works for a health care company, was sitting about three rows behind the right wing on American Airlines Flight 1665, which left Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas at about 8:10 a.m. As the plane rose into the air with 153 passengers and six crew members aboard, the...
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seattletimes.com | Farnaz Fassihi
With the nation watching, the host on Iranian state television asked the question that so many people in Iran — from the political elite to people on the street — were wondering. “People are very worried about the supreme leader,” the host said to an official from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office on Tuesday. “Can you tell us how he is?”He noted that viewers had sent a flood of messages asking the same thing.