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  • Washington Economy

    Guaranteed Approval of Bad Credit Loans

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    January 30, 2019
    Are you looking for loans with a guaranteed approval regardless of what? Personal loans that are guaranteed to approve for those with bad credit ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Corporate minimum tax could hit these ultra-profitable companies

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 13, 2022
    Updated August 12, 2022 at 7:20 p.m. EDT|Posted August 11, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Cash Effective Tax Rates of the most profitable companies ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Las Vegas casinos flood for second time in about two weeks, videos show

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 12, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Water crashed through the ceilings of some of Las Vegas’ famous casinos Thursday night as torrential rains flooded the ...
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  • Washington Population

    The most regretted baby names according to Social Security, and more!

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 12, 2022
    Young white adults who have left home over the past decade have tended to end up in New York. Their black peers were most ...
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  • Washington Environment

    The rainstorm that hit the DC area Wednesday night was extreme

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 11, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions The deluge in the DC area on Wednesday evening flooded roads and caused traffic jams, with high water levels, ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Library public safety director tenders resignation after officer shot

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 11, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions The DC library’s director of public safety tendered his resignation hours after a 25-year-old library police officer in training ...
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  • Washington Population

    London children to be offered polio vaccine after new virus discovered

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 10, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions LONDON – Children aged 1 to 9 in London were eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine on ...
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  • Washington Environment

    War in Ukraine accelerates Europe’s pivot to renewables

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 9, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Shelved coal-fired power plants are coming back to life in Europe as utilities try to keep the lights on after ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Presidents Hire Yes Men at Their Peril

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 9, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Even before Donald Trump revealed the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday, the day brought ...
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  • Washington Population

    Climate change stress causes lizards to age prematurely

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 8, 2022
    Comment this story Comment As temperatures rise rapidly, some lizards give birth to young that are already old. In central France, temperatures are accelerating ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Natural gas is better than many environmentalists admit

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 7, 2022
    Comment this story Comment While most Washington progressives celebrated the announcement of the Cut Inflation Act, at least one left-wing gadfly didn’t. “A pipeline? ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Latest Updates on the Russo-Ukrainian War – The Washington Post

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 7, 2022
    War in Ukraine: what you need to know The last: The United Nations has expressed hope that the first shipments of grain from blocked ...
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  • Washington Population

    Alabama city disbands police department over racist text

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 7, 2022
    Comment this story Comment VINCENT, Ala. – A racist text message sent by a police officer prompted officials in a small town in Alabama ...
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  • Washington Environment

    The economy grows one measure, falls another

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 6, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Friday’s job blast report may have quelled claims that the US is in a recession, but it hasn’t ended the ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Children potentially exposed to monkeypox at Illinois daycare, officials say

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 6, 2022
    Comment this story Comment A person who works at an Illinois daycare center has tested positive for monkeypox and potentially exposed children, who are ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Israeli strikes in Gaza kill senior militant operative and at least 9 others

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 5, 2022
    Comment this story Comment JERUSALEM — The Israeli military launched airstrikes on targets inside Gaza on Friday that killed an Islamist militant group leader ...
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  • Washington Population

    How Russia’s Ukraine war is stoking tension in Kosovo

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 5, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Three decades after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, the ethnic hostilities that sparked the conflict persist. Kosovo declared independence from ...
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  • Washington Environment

    NOAA still predicts above-average Atlantic hurricane season

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 4, 2022
    Comment this story Comment As for the tropics, the Atlantic generally begins to warm rapidly as the calendar shifts to August. This year, however, ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    IV Hydration Therapy Comes to West Bend | Washington Co. Business News

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 4, 2022
    WEST BEND — Abby Fabian is bringing intravenous hydration, a service she says “will help the community take action to make you better, whatever ...
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  • Washington Cities

    White House frustrated as Washington mayor seeks troops to help manage migrants

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 4, 2022
    WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Thousands of migrants bused to Washington in recent months by Republican governors of states on the U.S.-Mexico border have ...
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  • Washington Population

    Primary vote could mean no black members of Detroit sit in Congress

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 3, 2022
    Comment this story Comment DETROIT — State Rep. Shri Thanedar has won Michigan’s 13th Democratic congressional primary, leading a field of nine candidates in ...
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  • Washington Environment

    How Taylor Swift, Drake and celebrities with private jets affect the climate

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 2, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Music megastars Taylor Swift and Jay-Z are no strangers to the top of the charts. But recently, the two Grammy-winning ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Union Bashing won’t win for conservatives

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 2, 2022
    Comment this story Comment It looks like the price of victory in the Tory leadership election will be a bloody battle with Mick Lynch, ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Report on Afghanistan cites food shortages and oppression of women

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 2, 2022
    Comment this story Comment KABUL – Millions of Afghans are expected to experience “extreme levels of hunger” in the coming months, while foreign aid ...
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  • Washington Population

    2 bodies found in burnt-out vehicle in California wildfires

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    August 1, 2022
    Comment this story Comment YREKA, Calif. — Two bodies were found inside a charred vehicle in a driveway in the wildfire zone of a ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Part of the silos in the port of Beirut, damaged in the 2020 explosion, collapse

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 31, 2022
    Comment this story Comment BEIRUT – A section of the port of Beirut’s huge grain silos, shredded in the 2020 explosion, collapsed in a ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    DC schools’ covid vaccine mandate rare among national school systems

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 31, 2022
    Comment this story Comment DC students ages 12 and older must be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend school this upcoming school year. DC’s ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Storm beat Mystics 82-77, both clinch WNBA playoff berths

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 31, 2022
    WASHINGTON Breanna Stewart made four free throws in the final 12 seconds and finished with 18 points, Tina Charles scored 16 points and grabbed ...
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  • Washington Population

    EXPLAINER: What is the role of personality in the abortion debate?

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 30, 2022
    Comment this story Comment ATLANTA — The concept of “personality” has appeared in debates since the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Chips Act skips US leaders for Asian winners

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 30, 2022
    Comment this story Comment The long-awaited funding for the CHIPS Act is a victory for a cabal of U.S. chipmakers and foreign companies, but ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Abortion ruling will deepen military recruiting crisis, Pentagon says

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 29, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Pentagon officials and military personnel told lawmakers on Friday that the Supreme Court’s ruling ending a constitutional right to abortion ...
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  • Washington Cities

    How a declining British town changed its fortunes

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 29, 2022
    Comment this story Comment “It feels like this is Birmingham’s chance to shine,” says Stephen Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, a hit TV ...
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  • Washington Population

    Eli Evans, ‘poet laureate’ of Southern Jews, dies at 85

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 29, 2022
    Eli N. Evans, an author and memoirist who explored through the lens of his family the history of the Jews of the American South ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Congress takes key steps to advance Environmental Justice for All Act

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 28, 2022
    Press release | July 27, 2022 WASHINGTON — Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held legislative scoping and passed the Environmental Justice for All ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Bullish Democrats split over best choice to upset Missouri Senate

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 27, 2022
    Comment this story Comment ST. LOUIS — Democrats are optimistic about their chances of an upset in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race if scandal-ridden former ...
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  • Washington Population

    Breaking Lower Snake River dams will aid recovery of native fish, new study finds

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 26, 2022
    CORVALLIS, Ore. — A team of scientists, including one from Oregon State University, concluded in a recent paper that the failure of four dams ...
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  • Washington Environment

    What can national and local authorities do in the face of climate change?

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 26, 2022
    Comment this story Comment In the coming weeks, the California government is expected to release regulations requiring all new cars sold in the state ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Trump back in Washington to deliver political speech

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 26, 2022
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a policy speech ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Reviews | Florida has started penalizing bureaucratic delays. Housing permits have skyrocketed.

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 25, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Hayden Dublois is director of data and analytics at the Foundation for Government Accountability in Naples, Florida. Rising interest rates ...
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  • Washington Population

    Chinatown fears community and loss of business in 76ers arena plan

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 25, 2022
    Comment this story Comment PHILADELPHIA — Wei Chen wants people visiting Philadelphia’s Chinatown to see past the amber-colored roast ducks hanging in a restaurant ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Fire damages homes in southern Greece; more active flames

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 24, 2022
    Comment this story Comment ATHENS, Greece – A major fire has broken out in southern Greece, burning houses in villages not far from the ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Online schooling is the bad idea that refuses to die

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 23, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Almost all of the 20 largest US school districts will offer online schooling options this fall. More than half of ...
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  • Washington Population

    Your skin needs you to use more sunscreen

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 23, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Julian Sass is a sunscreen educator for his nearly 20,000 followers on instagramand every time he posts a sunscreen review ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Kenly, NC, police department resigns over work environment

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 22, 2022
    KENLY, North Carolina — An entire police department in a North Carolina town has quit over what it called a hostile work environment, and ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    South Carolina bill bans websites that explain how to get an abortion

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 22, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Shortly after the Supreme Court ruling that struck down abortion rights in June, South Carolina state senators introduced legislation prohibiting ...
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  • Washington Cities

    They’re giving Washington’s arch a good clean

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 22, 2022
    Hello. It’s Friday. We’ll see how Mayor Eric Adams’ focus on crime may have clouded his efforts to move past the pandemic and revive ...
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  • Washington Population

    First U.S. polio case in nearly a decade confirmed in unvaccinated Rockland County man

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 21, 2022
    Comment this story Comment The first U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade has been confirmed in an unvaccinated person in Rockland County, ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Mayra Flores accuses Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of funding racist ads

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 21, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Tex.) is under fire after a political blogger who was paid to run ads for his campaign ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Officials revamp HHS to boost pandemic response

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 20, 2022
    Comment this story Comment OpenThis article is open access. Why? The Biden administration is revamping the federal health department to create an independent division ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Russia threatens to cut gas; Germany draws up contingency plans

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 20, 2022
    Comment this story Comment BERLIN — Nuremberg has stopped lighting its historic buildings, Hamburg homeowners are rationing hot water and Berlin can turn off ...
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  • Washington Population

    Micronesia is the last of the largest nations to have an outbreak of COVID-19

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 20, 2022
    Comment this story Comment WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Micronesia has likely become the last nation in the world with a population of over 100,000 ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Africa’s wildlife park managers come together to boost conservation

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 19, 2022
    Comment this story Comment MOMBASA, Kenya – Officials are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda this week as part of the continent’s first-ever African Protected Areas ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    COVID scars linger for sickest survivors and families

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 19, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Freddy Fernandez was hardly there, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby in his lap, gnawing at the ...
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  • Washington Cities

    At Tatsu-ya’s Austin restaurants, Japanese cuisine gets a Texan twist

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 18, 2022
    The chefs behind Ramen Tatsu-ya are building a culinary ‘multiverse’ with tiki drinks and Texas brisket July 18, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EDT A ...
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  • Washington Population

    Mukteshwari “Mukti” Bosco receives the 2022 Roux Prize

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 18, 2022
    Ms. Bosco is recognized for her innovative and impactful use of Data on the global burden of disease to empower women and improve access ...
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  • Washington Environment

    More than reading glasses – new options for ‘old’ eyes

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 17, 2022
    Comment this story Comment The restaurant had tablecloths, dim lighting, and large leather-bound menus with a fancy script outlining the fare. But those otherwise ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Maryland Churches youth group stuck amid protests in Panama

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 16, 2022
    Comment this story Comment A leader of a youth group from two churches in Maryland said Friday that about two dozen people had been ...
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  • Washington Population

    Reviews | Drivers with unpaid tickets who keep their license are not safe

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 15, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Six months into 2022, there have been 1,528 Traffic accidents injuring DC Nineteen people were killed. The deaths follow a ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Officials suggest pipeline company hid issues after spill

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 15, 2022
    Comment this story Comment BILLINGS, Mont. – U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially covering up problems with a pipeline that ruptured in ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Texas sues Biden administration for requiring abortions in medical emergencies

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 14, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (right) sued the Biden administration over federal rules that require abortions to be performed in ...
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  • Washington Population

    Tri-Cities population growth continues its upward trend

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 14, 2022
    Franklin County has overtaken Benton County in population growth over the past year, ranking 7th in the state compared to 8th in its neighbor. ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Starbucks closes 16 locations due to worker safety concerns

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 13, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Starbucks is closing 16 stores in cities across the country, fearing its customers and employees will be safe, despite training ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Justice Department announces task force to fight excessive abortion bans

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 12, 2022
    Comment this story Comment The Department of Justice launches a “reproductive rights task force” to marshal federal legal resources aimed at preventing the excesses ...
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  • Washington Cities

    California Library Hosts Stuffed Animal Slumber Party

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 12, 2022
    Comment this story Comment With book bans, heated political debates and a pandemic to manage, it’s not an easy time to be a librarian. ...
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  • Washington Population

    What to watch on Tuesday: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ returns to FX

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 12, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Catfish: The TV Show (MTV at age 8) Kimberly has been burned by con artists before, but she thinks she’s ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Chuck Schumer tested positive for coronavirus

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 11, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (DN.Y.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman said in a statement Sunday. ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Ex-WA lawmaker and Richland mayor squabble over Benton County commission

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 10, 2022
    Left to right, William “Bill” Jenkin, Michael Alvarez and Barry Bush. Eric Rosane [email protected] READ MORE Tri-City 2022 Election Coverage The latest news and ...
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  • Washington Population

    Preventing the spread of monkeypox as cases rise in Washington

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 10, 2022
    Experts say knowing the symptoms and isolating potential cases is the best way to stop the spread. SEATTLE — Experts say education is power ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Electric buses to harness solar energy using a microgrid

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 9, 2022
    Comment this story Comment The first microgrid to power electric buses will soon debut in the Washington area as transit agencies across the country ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    WA leaders react in support to Biden’s executive order on abortion access, call for more action

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 9, 2022
    An executive order signed by President Joe Biden on Friday morning aims to protect access to reproductive health care — and while it has ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Reviews | John Garvey improved the Catholic University – and Washington

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 8, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Tim Busch, member of the Board of Visitors of the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America ...
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  • Washington Population

    Former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos dies at 79

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 8, 2022
    Comment this story Comment LISBON, Portugal — José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders who, for nearly four decades as president ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Video captures intense lightning striking a car

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 7, 2022
    Comment this story Comment Returning home from a family vacation during a thunderstorm near St. Petersburg, Florida on Friday, Michaelle May Whalen decided to ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Abortion access in Australia becomes easier amid Roe v. wade

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 7, 2022
    Comment this story Comment SYDNEY – Access to abortion became easier in Australia on Thursday as decriminalization came into force in the South Australian ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Mayor proposes compromise on public lands, property and sidewalks

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 6, 2022
    Mayor proposes compromise on public lands, property and sidewalks Brian Coddington, Director of Communications, 509.625.6740 Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 1:25 p.m. Mayor Nadine ...
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  • Washington Population

    Is Seattle shrinking or continuing to grow? Depends who you ask

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 6, 2022
    If you’re one of those who say Seattle is dying, you’ll find data showing a shrinking population to back you up. But if you’re ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Judge strikes down Trump administration changes to endangered species law

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 5, 2022
    A The California federal judge on Tuesday struck down Trump-era changes to the Endangered Species Act in a victory for environmental groups, who said ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Reviews | Advocates of forced births show how barbaric their position is

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 5, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions When abortion rights advocates accused anti-abortion supporters of being disturbingly indifferent to women and even aspiring to cruelly force ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Sydney floods overwhelm 50,000 people around Australia’s biggest city

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 5, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions RICHMOND, Australia — Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s biggest city in a flood emergency ...
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  • Washington Population

    WA and BC leaders mull closure of controversial salmon farms

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 4, 2022
    The Canadian decision will come first. The majority of British Columbia’s 105 net-pen Atlantic salmon licenses are due to expire on June 30, and ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Bauxite miners want to clear WA forest of Seven Rottnest Islands

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 3, 2022
    But the EPA wanted to examine it as part of its review of the Pinjarra expansion to better assess the cumulative impacts of multiple ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Reviews | An advance for non-heterosexual medical students and health care

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 3, 2022
    The Biden administration’s new ruling that students deserve to learn free from harassment, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, is enraging conservatives ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Sioux Falls, SD, was America’s divorce capital amid widespread bans

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 3, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Dark clouds and driving rain greeted the steam train as it stopped in Sioux Falls, SD on June 1, ...
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  • Washington Population

    Oklahoma plans to execute 25 prisoners in the next 29 months

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 3, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Oklahoma plans to execute 25 prisoners over the next 29 months after ending a moratorium spurred by botched lethal ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Community scientists – even children – produce usable data for researchers

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 2, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Citizen science projects are turning ordinary people into researchers, and in recent years such efforts have abounded, tackling everything ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Maryland law expanding who can perform abortion goes into effect

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 2, 2022
    ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland law taking effect Friday will allow nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants who receive special training to perform ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Timberwolves land Jazz’s Rudy Gobert in NBA blockbuster

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 1, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions The long-awaited breakup of the Utah Jazz star partnership has finally arrived. Utah has agreed to trade star center ...
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  • Washington Population

    Isla McNabb, 2, from Kentucky, becomes the youngest member of Mensa

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    July 1, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Shortly after their daughter Isla turned 2, Amanda and Jason McNabb began spotting strange patterns of multicolored plastic toy ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Governor of Texas Abbott, Atty. General Paxton inaugurates measures against abortion and gay rights

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 30, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Following the historic reversal by the Supreme Court of Roe vs. WadeTexas looks set to cement its place at ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    A health care cliff could leave millions without insurance

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 30, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Since the beginning of 2020, the United States has been under an official public health emergency. In July, after ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Joshua Danehower accused of killing Gret Glyer

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 29, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions A family acquaintance entered the town of Fairfax, Va., at the home of a 32-year-old website builder early Friday ...
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  • Washington Population

    Chinese Baidu races with Waymo and GM to develop self-driving cars

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 29, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions BEIJING — With no one behind the wheel, a self-driving taxi developed by tech giant Baidu Inc. rolls down ...
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  • Washington Environment

    More gas infrastructure needed to manage energy crisis, G-7 leaders agree

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 28, 2022
    gThe Group of Seven leaders acknowledged the need to build more natural gas infrastructure to tackle the global energy crisis in a statement in ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    California to vote on constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 28, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions California is set to become one of the first states in the nation to explicitly enshrine the right to ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Missouri Amtrak derailment: train with 243 passengers runs off track; reported injuries

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 27, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions A cross-country Amtrak train hit a dump truck in Missouri on Monday, derailing multiple cars and injuring passengers, the ...
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  • Washington Population

    From below to on the rocks: Invading crabs become whiskey

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 27, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions CONCORD, NH – Want a hint of crab in your whisky? A New Hampshire distillery has developed its new ...
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  • Washington Environment

    Family and friends mourn British journalist killed in Brazil

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 26, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions NITEROI, Brazil — Gathered in a cemetery on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, friends and relatives on Sunday ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    How to keep your information private when requesting an abortion

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 26, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Everything you do online is already tracked. This information is about to become even more sensitive if you are ...
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  • Washington Cities

    Inslee seeks amendment to state constitution on abortion rights

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 26, 2022
    Washington State Governor Jay Inslee addresses a rally before raising the LGBTQ Pride Celebration flag seen behind him during a noon ceremony at the ...
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  • Washington Population

    Russia Fires Missiles Through Ukraine, Cements Its Gains In The East

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 25, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces are seeking to swallow the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Luhansk region, ...
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  • Washington Environment

    At LGBTQ Pride, celebration but also concern for civil rights

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 25, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions NEW YORK – LGBTQ Pride commemorations that have at times felt like victory parties for civil rights are now ...
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  • Washington Health Care

    Reviews | Approvals for Montgomery County Council’s Democratic primary

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 24, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Montgomery County voters decided in 2020 to add two new county council seats, creating an 11-member body. This decision, ...
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    Ukraine withdraw from Severodonetsk as Russia advance to Luhansk

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 24, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions While the war in Ukraine has lasted for more than 120 days, Russia has been concentrating its firepower in ...
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    States make proposals to vote 1st in the 2024 Democratic primaries

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 23, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions WASHINGTON — The Iowa delegation promised changes to its caucus after The collapse of the 2020s. New Hampshire brought ...
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    SF school board after recall overturns vote to cover controversial Washington High mural

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 23, 2022
    The San Francisco school board voted on Wednesday to overturn an earlier board decision to cover up a controversial mural at Washington High School. ...
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    The owner of a nursing home whose residents suffered in Ida arrested

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    June 22, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions NEW ORLEANS – The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes who sent more than 800 of his elderly residents ...
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    Bowser wins Democratic DC mayoral nomination and AP projects

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 22, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Muriel E. Bowser (D), the no-nonsense politician who has led the district for eight years, won the Democratic nomination ...
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    Men’s football signs six for 2022

    By Tomas S. Mercer
    June 21, 2022
    History links WASHINGTON – GW Men’s Football has signed six newcomers to join the program this fall, head coach Craig Jones ...
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    GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens criticized for ‘RINO hunting’ campaign ad

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    June 21, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, a Republican Senate candidate, is widely criticized after he released a campaign ad on ...
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    Toddler shots: COVID vaccinations begin for America’s toddlers

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    June 20, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Little Fletcher Pack woke up Monday morning and asked, “Is today vaccine day?” For the 3-year-old from Lexington, South ...
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    Xi Jinping, director of career planning in China?

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    June 20, 2022
    Placeholder while loading article actions Over the next few weeks, China will produce a record 10.8 million university graduates. Finding jobs for them is ...
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