A federal judge has given the Justice Department a day to say what materials it plans to make publicly available from the file it built to prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell in the sex trafficking case brought against her after financier Jeffrey Epstein died.
Affordable housing: Bureaucracy strikes again
Re: “Seattle City Council panel approves 18% price hikes for construction permits” (Nov. 18, Northwest): Government bureaucracy strikes again. Faced with decadeslong affordable housing shortages, the City Council votes to increase construction permit c…
WA leads lawsuit against Trump’s ‘Housing First’ homelessness reversal
Washington has joined 19 other states in suing the Trump administration over efforts to impose strict new conditions on homelessness funds to states,
Ukraine: Muddied ‘peace plan’
Re: “Zelenskyy: Peace plan presents a ‘difficult choice’ ” (Nov. 22, A1) and “Senator: Rubio says peace plan is Russian ‘wish list’ ” (Nov. 23, Nation & World): In the present administration’s attitude of shoot first, ask questions later, our secre…
Why an unproven air taxi company is spending $126 million to take over a Los Angeles airport
Flying taxis — electric aircraft that take off and land vertically — are to be tested at the airport this company is buying.
Federal Bureau of Prisons says falling concrete is forcing it to close a prison near Los Angeles
The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens to knock out the facility’s heating system.
Mother sentenced to life in prison for New Zealand’s ‘suitcase murders’
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Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company’s “first new format created specifically” for users under 18 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
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Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company’s “first new format created specifically” for users under 18 — Character.AI announced on Tuesd…
Health care plan circulated by the White House runs into familiar GOP divisions
A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into Republican divisions on the issue.
Penny Oleksiak Faces Two-Year Swimming Ban Over Antidoping Testing Rules
Penny Oleksiak, 25, who has won seven Olympic medals, was sanctioned under antidoping rules. Her suspension ends before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.