(The Center Square) – Seattle will implement scheduled closures of over 20 public libraries as a result of hiring freezes and looming budget shortfalls. Seattle Public Library will be implementing the library closures intermittently through June 4 due to limited staffing capacity throughout its library branches. The announced closures are going through despite Seattle’s public library system […]
(The Center Square) – Puget Sound Energy, the state’s largest utility provider, is facing a significant energy shortage by the end of the decade unless it finds more resources. One of its officials recently acknowledged the plan could initially include natural gas. According to a recent presentation to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, PSE’s Vice President […]
SYDNEY (AP) — A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured in the attack. The 40-year-old suspect began stabbing people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s New York trial case will keep him in court daily, severely curtailing his ability to appear on the campaign trail. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought 34 felony charges against Trump in 2023 for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment scheme to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the […]
Nearly half a million immigrant children have arrived without a parent at the nation’s borders during President Joe Biden‘s tenure, a milestone no other administration has come close to hitting. In the three years since Biden took office and stopped returning to Mexico unaccompanied minors, a whopping 464,922 children have been encountered by U.S. Customs […]
The second of April’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, will go out to the next group of retirees in four days. The next round will go out on April 17, to beneficiaries that were born on or between the 11th and 20th of […]
The first of two Supplemental Security Income payments for May, worth up to $943 for individual filers, goes out to millions of beneficiaries in less than three weeks. The first installment will go out in 18 days, on Wednesday, May 1, to people with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according […]
On election night in November, not every state will delegate their electors the same way. Rather than use the “winner-take-all” method that 48 other states use, Maine and Nebraska delegate their electoral votes in a different way. The two states use the congressional district method. Under the congressional district method, states allocate two electoral votes […]
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed another increase to its Forever Stamps, which have consistently gone up in price to combat inflation. The newly proposed price would uptick the stamp’s cost from 68 cents to 73 cents, an increase of a little less than 8%. Other mailing items affected by this increase include letters being […]
Demand for former NFL MVP and Pro Football Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson memorabilia has skyrocketed in the wake of his death. Simpson, who became infamous following the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in what was dubbed the “trial of the century,” died Wednesday following a battle with cancer. He […]
