WA’s small businesses can’t thrive if we’re drained by ‘swipe fees’
Soaring credit card fees are hurting business and consumers. State and federal lawmakers should rein them in.
Month: August 2025
Netanyahu calls for ‘complete’ defeat of Hamas as Israel considers total Gaza occupation
After reports that Israel is considering a total occupation of Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said only a “complete” defeat of Hamas could return the remaining hostages home, while the UN warned that expanding the fighting …
UK to bear transport costs of ‘one in, one out’ asylum seeker deal with France
Treaty can be ended by either side at a month’s notice and France can refuse returns on certain groundsThe UK will pay the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from France under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, it has …
‘Healthocide’: experts warn of rise in targeting of health services in conflict
Principle of medical neutrality threatened as doctors and hospitals deliberately attacked, particularly in GazaTargeting medics and hospitals in acts of war should be called “healthocide”, academics have urged, amid an increase in such attacks in recen…
Verbally abused children more likely to have poor mental health as adults, study finds
Analysis suggests long-term damage to wellbeing can be worse than for children experiencing physical abuseParents who ridicule, threaten or humiliate their children risk leaving them with a 64% higher chance of having poor mental health as an adult, a…
Bummer summer: Seattle can’t allow swimming beaches to become toxic stews
Some of Seattle’s best swimming beaches have been temporarily closed because of bad water quality. More ought to be done to shoo away waterfowl.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
Bringing ‘a gun to a knife fight’ in Texas: Greg Abbott just gave Democrats the gut check they needed
Democrats are finally starting to sound like they’ve rediscovered their leverage … and maybe a willingness to use it over redistricting war, writes John Bowden
Karoline Leavitt gives glimpse into family life with personal post
The 27-year-old posted a picture of her one-year-old child, Nicholas “Niko” Robert Riccio, on Monday
Parents of man shot and killed by Colorado officer after scuffle sue
The parents of a man who was fatally shot by an officer after the two scuffled are suing the officer and accusing police in the Denver suburb of Aurora of failing to end racially discriminatory policing.