(The Center Square) — New data shows that tourism in Seattle is near pre-COVID-19 levels, but international tensions could halt progress on that front. Visit Seattle, Seattle and King County’s destination marketing organization, reported that approximately 40 million visitors came to the city and King County in 2024, a 5.3% increase from 2023, a near full recovery […]
SUQUAMISH, Washington (AP) — For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for an unusually phallic clam that’s coveted thousands of miles away. George is a geoduck diver. Pronounced “gooey-duck,” the world’s largest burrowing clam has been harvested in tidelands by George’s Indigenous ancestors in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll — a relative high point for a president who has the approval overall of about 4 in 10 Americans. But support for his individual policies on transgender people is not uniformly strong, […]
A man who was found dead along Interstate 5 in Oregon has been identified after nearly 45 years and police say a notorious California serial killer is the sole person of interest in the case. The 30-year-old was identified Friday as Larry Eugene Parks. Oregon State Police spokesperson Kyle Kennedy said Randy Kraft, who has […]
Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an impromptu novelty show: Her cousin invited over friends and charged 25 cents a pop for them to listen to Levine’s Southern accent. Even though they too grew up in Atlanta, Levine’s two […]
President Donald Trump announced that India and Pakistan have reached a pause in fighting after engaging in talks with the United States. The conflict escalated early Saturday morning before the ceasefire was announced, when Pakistan launched a strike against India in retaliation for attacks India has launched since Wednesday. “After a long night of talks […]
The conflict between Pakistan and India escalated early Saturday as both sides targeted each other’s air bases and blamed the other for hitting them first. The Pakistani military said it began a strike against India in retaliation for recent “Indian aggression,” according to CNN. The country also said it struck India’s Pathankot Airfield and Udhampur […]
Another busy week for President Donald Trump is continuing into the weekend with the opening of trade and tariff negotiations in Geneva between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. While considered just an ice-breaker, Washington and Wall Street are hoping that it will lead to a restructuring of the trading terms […]
President Donald Trump‘s new wave of firings at independent agencies could spark another legal firestorm over his attempts to leverage his executive branch power. Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioners Richard Trumka Jr. and Mary Boyle, both of whom were nominated by former President Joe Biden, received notice of their terminations in an email late Thursday […]
For more than the past year, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has missed among the most votes of any senator, rarely attended committee hearings, and become increasingly isolated from his colleagues amid reports of lingering mental health troubles. The first-term Pennsylvania Democrat has missed 30 floor votes this year and had the third-worst attendance in 2024. […]
