Stabbing on the waterfront: A 28-year-old man is in crucial situation after being stabbed 10 occasions within the again and stomach close to Alaskan Method and Spring Road round midnight on Saturday. Police suspect two folks stabbed the person.
Sound Transit bus crash: A Sound Transit bus crashed right into a downtown constructing on Saturday after the bus’ brakes failed, based on the motive force. The automobile slammed right into a walled construction exterior a constructing on Fifth Avenue and Terrace Road. Fifteen passengers had been injured, and one man stays critically injured.
Sound Transit bus within the means of being eliminated.
Right here’s a take a look at the harm. @fox13seattle pic.twitter.com/kePrUel1gF
— Dave Detling (@DetlingFOX13) June 23, 2024
Library hackers can burn in hell: The Seattle Public Library continues to be in a state of computer-less paralysis after a ransomware assault 4 weeks in the past. SPL librarians, who’re having to verify all the pieces out by way of hand, are asking folks to only not return their books in the mean time since they do not have a technique to verify books again into their system with out their computer systems up and operating. Computer systems within the libraries do not work, and neither does library wifi. Library officers estimate not less than two extra weeks of this stilted, helpless limbo.
Good climate continues in Seattle: Sorry to everybody melting all over the world, Seattle will see a breezy excessive of 69 levels right now.
New worry unlocked: If Mount Rainier erupted, it is not the potential for decent lava flows or suffocating volcanic ash we should always fear about—it is the lahar. Rainier’s distinctive icy, snowy, steep make-up means lahar, a swiftly shifting slurry of water and volcanic rock particles, will slush down the mountain and gush into surrounding areas, overlaying them with “a river of mud, rocks, lava and icy water” that can dry like concrete. The deadliest lahar in current historical past killed 23,000 folks in minutes when Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted. Mount Rainier has “about eight occasions the quantity of glaciers and snow” as Nevado del Ruiz had on the time of that volcano’s eruption.
Everett Herald workers will strike: The journalists who stay on the Herald after possession gutted the paper’s workers in a spherical of layoffs final week will strike on Monday.
Inbox: Union information workers @EverettHerald set one-day strike beginning 9 a.m. Monday at Colby & Hewitt in downtown Everett. @EverettGuild pic.twitter.com/lP1T4wP7Fz
— Caleb Hutton (@snocaleb) June 22, 2024
World’s worst layover: Two NASA astronauts are stranded on the Worldwide Area Station after hitching a trip on Boeing’s Starliner. After years of delays, earlier this month the capsule lastly made a profitable crewed launch. Sadly, on that inaugural flight the crew discovered 5 helium leaks within the thruster system. Two astronauts who had been solely supposed to remain every week on the ISS have now been there three weeks, and it appears as if they will not be on a return flight house till someday in July. To make issues worse, resulting from restricted gasoline on the ISS, the Starliner can solely keep docked there for 45 days. The clock is ticking. This is sort of a extra mundane Interstellar.
Excessive warmth throughout Hajj: Excessive warmth killed over 1,300 Islamic folks making the pilgrimage to holy websites in and round Mecca as temperatures soared to 117 to 120 levels throughout the five-day pilgrimage. Based on Saudi Arabia’s well being minister, 81% of the deceased had been unauthorized pilgrims, that means they did not have the right visas to journey to Mecca and subsequently did not have lodges inside which they might escape from the scorching temperatures.
RIP, king: The US Postal Service will honor the late, nice Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek, by making a batch of Jeopardy!-themed Perpetually Stamps. The entire stamp sheet, cut up into text-heavy blue squares, will resemble the sport’s clue board. The stamps might be out there on the finish of July and can value the brand new Perpetually Stamp value of 73 cents a stamp, up from 68 cents a stamp.
What’s … our new favourite US Postal Service stamp? Reserve your #Jeopardy! Alex Trebek Perpetually stamp tomorrow at https://t.co/2FSCJPpHA9 pic.twitter.com/wHlZXkoIlX
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) June 21, 2024
Extra Israeli strikes: On Friday, Israel struck tent camps housing displaced Palestinians close to Gaza’s southern metropolis of Rafah. The shelling killed not less than 25 folks and injured 50 others. The assaults occurred at a location simply exterior Muwasi, an Israel-designated secure zone. Israel stated it’s attempting to root out Hamas leaders and keep away from civilian deaths, nevertheless, Israel someway retains killing civilians.
So, what about that ceasefire? Shockingly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t desire a full ceasefire as outlined in Joe Biden’s three-phase plan for winding down the Israel-Hamas battle. No, Netanyahu would do a “partial” ceasefire, however he is not going to finish this battle till he is destroyed Hamas. The partial ceasefire would solely exist whereas the 2 teams returned every others’ hostages. Then, Netanyahu needs the battle and the entire dying that comes with it to proceed. This might (perhaps???) additional pressure relationships between the US and Israel, because the US did an enormous diplomatic push for Biden’s three-phase ceasefire plan.
Parisians plan poop protest: Paris has been cleansing up the Seine as a result of the Metropolis needs to host Olympic swimming races within the historic river. That may be all properly and good, besides that the river, regardless of the $1.5 billion the French authorities has spent to wash it up, continues to be contaminated. However, officers stay assured they’re going to have all the pieces in ship form by Olympic video games time subsequent month. French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo stated they’d swim within the river to show it was secure. Parisians suppose they’re filled with shit. For example their level, many Parisians deliberate to shit within the Seine. “As a result of after placing us in shit it is as much as them to wash in our shit,” an internet site for the occasion declares. It was purported to occur on Sunday, nevertheless it’s unclear whether or not any mass Seine shitting occurred.
Ah, this could finish horribly: The Supreme Court docket agreed to take up a case difficult Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming take care of minors. Name me a pessimist, however I can not see that ending properly.
The textualist method that led Gorsuch and Roberts to affirm transgender protections in Bostock won’t essentially carry over into the constitutional context. They might take a narrower view of the 14th Modification than they took of Title VII.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 24, 2024
Penile most cancers on the rise: Penis most cancers, whereas uncommon, is growing globally. Brazil has one of many highest incident charges, occurring in 2.1 in 100,000 males. Within the final decade, Brazil recorded 4,000 dick most cancers deaths and 6,500 amputations. Medical doctors consider one of many predominant causes to be “persistent an infection of human papillomavirus,” or HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that folks could be vaccinated in opposition to. Nevertheless, vaccination charges are down in Brazil resulting from misinformation across the shot.
A track in your Monday: Too on the nostril? I do not care.
