Da climate: A entrance will transfer throughout Western Washington right this moment, so count on 1 / 4 to half inch of rain. Showers and remoted thunderstorms moved into the inside early this morning. They’re anticipated to proceed till 3 pm, take a two hour late lunch, and resume as showers and doable thunderstorms this night.
Oops, all cuts: Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 2025-2026 price range plugged a $250 million gap with wads of cash meant for inexpensive housing, and he nonetheless discovered a option to give the cops extra! Hannah has extra right here.
Harrell is utilizing simply $132 million from JumpStart to fund inexpensive housing. That is about 30% of what the tax is projected to boost in 2025 slightly than 62% because the broad coalition that fought for JumpStart had obligated to go to housing https://t.co/GDB2sYSeOY
— Hannah Krieg (@hannahkrieg) September 24, 2024
Simply attempt driving this weekend: The Washington Division of Transportation introduced “monster” highway closures to complete a bunch of development tasks this weekend, Based on KING 5, WSDOT will shut SR 520 from I-5 to 92nd Ave Northeast, Northbound I-405 from Exit 5 to Coal Creek Parkway Southeast, and Southbound SR 167 in Kent from SR 516 to South 277th Road, I-5 (at night time) from SR 18 in Federal Manner and 54th Avenue in Fife, and the Mercer Road on-ramps to I-5.
Archaeological Dig Reveals Roadwork on 520 Underway Since Early Seventeenth Century: https://t.co/pI6JNEqob7 pic.twitter.com/xxbKZWvPK9
— The Needling (@TheNeedling) September 24, 2024
Boeing goofs once more: Unsure whose vivid concept it was to ambush the machinists union by sidestepping the bargaining desk to supply a broadly publicized and ineffectual contract supply to 33,000 offended, hanging staff, however wow it positive backfired. After the union mentioned it wouldn’t even vote on the supply, the corporate confirmed its weak hand and backed down on the strict Friday deadline for its “greatest and closing supply.”
Lebanon: Israeli bombardment in Southern Lebanon has displaced half 1,000,000 folks, officers there say. International Ministers in Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq warned the assaults had been “pushing the area in the direction of all-out battle.” Israel is drafting reservists for “operational actions within the northern space.” Lebanon borders Israel to the north.
Missouri could have killed an harmless man final night time: Marcellus Williams’s attorneys, a prime prosecutor within the workplace that secured his 2001 conviction, and the household of his alleged sufferer didn’t need him to die after a yearslong try to exonerate him. An absence of DNA proof and unreliable witnesses for the prosecution counsel Williams could not have stabbed former St. Louis Put up-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle. Regardless of these claims and a flurry of appeals, neither the US Supreme Court docket nor Missouri Gov. Mike Parson stayed the execution. The NAACP known as Williams’s loss of life a lynching.
Too typically people like Marcellus Williams
flip right into a political speaking level. However I would like folks to recollect, he has a household. He has individuals who love him.The individual on this video is Marcellus Williams’s son.
On this brief clip you’re reminded that the loss of life penalty doesn’t… pic.twitter.com/4hXTMbuJHN
— L E F T, PhD ⚫️ (@LeftSentThis) September 24, 2024
Brett Favre has Parkinson’s: The once-popular NFL Corridor of Fame quarterback revealed his analysis throughout, of all issues, a congressional listening to on welfare reform. What? So, a couple of years in the past Favre allegedly had a task in misappropriating $8 million of welfare cash from needy households for speeches he by no means gave and volleyball services at his alma mater. About $2.1 million went to a pharmaceutical firm, Prevacus, to fund a drug for treating concussions, which is a standard incidence for NFL gamers like Favre and a threat issue for the degenerative neurological situation Parkinson’s Illness. Within the listening to, Favre mentioned he misplaced that funding in Prevacus. Because it turned out, the neuroscientist who led the corporate used the ill-begotten welfare funds to pay playing and private money owed.
A hurricane hits Florida Thursday: The Nationwide Hurricane Middle predicts “life-threatening” storm surges and harmful rainfall when Helene slams into the state’s Gulf Coast this week. Anticipated to succeed in Class 3 depth, Helene is more likely to be the strongest storm to hit the US this yr. It is the sixth Florida hurricane since 2022 and presumably the ninth main hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast since 2016.
New fees for alleged Trump murderer: First charged with two federal firearms offenses, Ryan Routh was indicted Tuesday on a cost of tried assassination for allegedly staking out Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a gun earlier this month. Prosecutors allege Routh wrote out his plans months prematurely and stored a handwritten listing of locations Trump had been, or can be, in his automotive.
Bye-bye Infowars? A federal choose is anticipated to approve an order to public sale off Alex Jones’s media empire piece by piece this fall to pay the $1 billion debt he owes to the households of Sandy Hook taking pictures victims for spreading the conspiracy principle that their private tragedies had been a part of a hoax to move gun management laws. Jones mentioned he received’t be silenced and recommended his supporters (aka “patriot patrons”) may purchase his belongings and he may host his present Infowars as an worker.
I’ll completely attempt to purchase a prop from the corpse of Alex Jones’ desires for my workplace https://t.co/iQXkDhDqKr
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) September 25, 2024
