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NASA already has next Artemis flight in its sights following astronauts’ triumphant moon flyby

And how do you top that?“To people all around the world who look up and dream about what is possible, the long wait is over,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said as he introduced Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen at Saturday’s jubilant homecoming celebration.Now that the first lunar travelers in more than a half-century are safely back in Houston with their families, NASA has Artemis III in its sights.“The next mission’s right ar

Years of drought has major energy port of Corpus Christi, Texas, wrestling with water crisis

But Zanoni said water rates may eventually double as the city invests roughly $1 billion on infrastructure — costs that some argue will disproportionately benefit industry and make life for residents more expensive.What’s the way out?The city is in a water emergency when it has 180 days before water supply can’t keep up with demand. Officials have run through different scenarios for getting new water and the drought easing, and have said an emergency could come as early as May, as la

Mississippi reveals its full history for America’s anniversary year, a contrast to federal efforts

But it is housed in a space where achievement is intertwined with the state’s dark past involving Native Americans, enslaved people and the Civil Rights era.Nan Prince, director of collections for the Mississippi Department of Archives & History, said the instructions were simple from scholars, politicians, staff members, and civic and civil rights groups when the museums were being conceived and built.“Don’t brush over anything, don’t whitewash anything,” she said. “Just tell th

‘These are life choices’: Rising living costs force seniors to find roommates, avoid loneliness

I mean, these are all things that you don’t want to catch up with you by the time you get into your 70s.”Spike explained that the 72-year-old man was recently divorced, and that such an unanticipated event can throw a wrench into a person’s plans as a “dramatic change.”“You may have built a life, but then when you get divorced, you’ve got half a life left,” Spike said. “Oftentimes, the nest egg you built gets cracked in half, and you’ve

Tacoma’s new police chief sends message on enforcing drug laws, chop shops, public safety

In February, the City of Tacoma swore in a new chief of police after a unanimous vote by the city council, and, according to KIRO host John Curley, she has already hit the ground running.“<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The John Curley Show</a>” has been documenting a saga for years between a homeowner and a “chop shop” that has been plaguing his home. Just months into Patti Jackson’s newly sworn-in tenure, the police department and SWAT were at the scene, clearing out the neighboring house riddled with drugs, prostitution, and even murder.“I was looking at your 35-year history, and you step in there, and I love the fact that the first thing you said is, ‘We want to look at all of these cases that have been gathering dust,'” Curley said. “‘We got to clear this stuff up,’ and you’re going to do that now.”“I think what I do have that sticks with me is that it’s not just the details, right? It’s the frustration,” Jackson told Curley. “The frustration in his voice, and you even heard it then, even though he felt as if he had some reprieve. When somebody tells you that they’re living next to that, that their kids are living next to that, I think that that matters.”Last week, Sean, the homeowner, told “<a href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The John Curley Show</a>” on KIRO Newsradio he was “stunned” when he got a phone call from Jackson herself.“I mean, I pulled over the car because I was in the car. And I was just shocked,” Sean said. “And so we had a long conversation. It was nice to be able to pour out my heart and just go, ‘Listen, we need help. We don’t know what to do. All our neighbors are just in this really terrible situation.'”Sean said that a few weeks had gone by, and he started to lose hope that something would actually be done. Then, on Thursday morning, he had just woken up when he heard a loud boom.“I was just getting my coffee, and the kids weren’t even awake yet. We heard this initial, just a very loud explosion,” he said. “I initially thought, Oh, is that a dumpster? Did somebody hit a car? I mean, I just didn’t know what to see. Come upstairs out of the office and look out our window, and there’s the SWAT, the FBI, and the DEA, all these things. So it’s just chaos.”Sean said authorities blew out the windows of his neighbor’s house, where the chop shop existed, about four or five times.“The boys came up, they grabbed their coffee, and we had a little bit of a show there for a couple of hours,” he said.Around seven people were taken out of the house, Sean noted. He added that the nuisance property was completely surrounded.“I’ve never seen so many different vehicles. It was quite an impressive operation,” Sean said.Sean and his family are grateful the nightmare next door was finally addressed. He’s been trying to sell his house, and the neighboring property was dragging down its value. Now he’s waiting to see how things shake out.“We’ve been waiting for this for so long, but now what do we do? We got to let this play out,” Sean said. “Do we sell our house, after that, and eventually get swooped up by an investor? I mean, there are so many ways this could play out, but then at the same time, we put so much heart into our home. Do we want to leave? I don’t know. It’s tough to say, but we’re just excited that finally, some action is happening.”Additionally, Jackson has reinforced the department with new hires. She has five vacancies within the department, a far cry from the 40 it had before.“I think that the most important factor right now, across the nation, is that people are feeling a lack of love for law enforcement,” Jackson said. “Everybody wants to fix us. Everybody wants to tell us what to do, but by God, you know that they just really don’t want to support what we’re doing.”<div class="related alignright"><div class="col_label"><h2>RELATED STORIES</h2></div><ul><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/cliff-mass-super-el-nino/4226638"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/A-new-11-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Cliff Mass: It’s too early to predict a 'super El Niño' this year" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/cliff-mass-super-el-nino/4226638">Cliff Mass: It’s too early to predict a 'super El Niño' this year</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/washington-road-problem/4226252"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/pothole-washington-road-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="Curley: Washington's roads are ranked 48th in the nation. At this point, let's just go for 50th." loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/washington-road-problem/4226252">Curley: Washington's roads are ranked 48th in the nation. At this point, let's just go for 50th.</a></h3></div></li><li><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/recall-against-ferguson/4225877"><img decoding="async" width="719" height="404" src="https://mynorthwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ferguson-1-420x236.jpg" class="sub_art" alt="'I'm disappointed that it had to get here': Lawyer who filed recall against Ferguson hopes issue resolves before it goes to court" loading="lazy"></a><div class="sub_story"><h3><a class="related-link" href="https://mynorthwest.com/john-curley/recall-against-ferguson/4225877">'I'm disappointed that it had to get here': Lawyer who filed recall against Ferguson hopes issue resolves before it goes to court</a></h3></div></li></ul></div><h2>Enforcing drug laws</h2>“Are you being told now, in your new position, by somebody that you have to answer to, don’t enforce these drug laws?” Curley asked.“I am not,” Jackson replied. “I am being told, ‘Do what you need to do, do it in the right manner, the right fashion.’ I keep people posted with what they need to be posted with. I tell them what we’re doing. My philosophy is this, right? It is something that’s a coordinated effort, but it’s something that you know you have to trust. I’m expected to take these calls. You trusted me to be your Chief of Police. Let me do what I need to do.”“You’re in a tough spot because you’re answering to people that are not on the street,” Curley said. “So here’s a hypothetical for you: If you had been told, we don’t enforce those [drug laws], would you take that order?”“I don’t think that that’s really what they would want to tell me, and if they tell me that we’re not enforcing that, I think what we need to do is we need to come up with a game plan, and maybe they need to find a fit,” Jackson answered. “I don’t say that lightly. I love the men and women that I work for. I love this city, but if you’re tying my hands and you’re asking me not to do something that I’m paying a 400-strong agency, we’re paying them to do this, and then you tell them, ‘Oh, but don’t do it.’ That’s not something that I can look at myself in the mirror every day with.”Watch the full discussion in the video above.Listen to John Curley weekday afternoons from 3 – 7 p.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/category/podcast_results/?sid=1089&n=The%20Tom%20and%20Curley%20Show">podcast here</a>.<a class="twitter-follow-button" href="https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/jcurleyshow" data-show-count="false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow @https://twitter.com/jcurleyshow</a><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Analysis: Trump declares victory, no matter what, and the Iran war is the latest example

“When you need someone to quickly and efficiently represent ‘American Rich Guy,’ Trump has kind of cast himself in that position,” Thompson said, “and everybody goes along with it.” Trump did not acknowledge his staggering losses. After his three casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, filed for bankruptcy, he insisted to The Associated Press in 2016 that Atlantic City had been “a great period for me.” Starting in 2007, meanwhile, he became a mainstay with WWE executive Vince McMahon,

Iranians left disappointed but defiant after failure of peace talks with US

<block>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians reacted with a mixture of disappointment and defiance on Sunday after peace talks with the United States failed to reach an agreement following hourslong negotiations. U.S. officials said the talks collapsed over what they described as Iran’s refusal to commit to abandoning its nuclear program. Iranian officials blamed the U.S. for failing to reach a deal, without specifying the sticking points.The failure of the high-stakes talks in Pakistan after 21 hours casts doubt over the future of a fragile two-week ceasefire, due to expire on April 22. Standing outside a newsstand in the capital, Tehran, Farhad Simia told The Associated Press he had hoped for successful negotiations and an end to the fighting, but stood with Iran despite the failure of the talks. “I’m against war. I think negotiation is the better path,” Simia, 43, said. He blamed “inappropriate demands” by the U.S. for the failure to reach a deal. Mehdi Hosseini, also 43, agreed: “Considering the advantage Iran seemed to have on the battlefield, there was a real concern that we might lose all those gains in the negotiations. “Whether the talks succeed or not is one matter, but the fact that the Iranian negotiating team managed to preserve what it achieved in the war, while refusing to back down and surrender, gives reason for hope.”The streets of Tehran were lined up with large Iranian flags and giant billboards glorifying the country’s leaders and military achievements. One large illustration depicted Iranian men in uniform lifting a fishing net out of the sea with a catch of miniature-sized U.S. military aircraft and warships. “The Strait Remains Closed,” the billboard read. Hamid Haghi, 55, said “America’s overreach” was the reason for the talks’ failure. The U.S. wants “to come to the Strait of Hormuz, which is a legacy from our fathers,” he said. “We can oversee (it) ourselves.”Like many Iranians, 60-year-old Mohammad Bagher believes Iran should continue to stand strong against the U.S. in what he sees as a war of their own making.“We are a nation of dialogue and negotiation as long as our interests are respected. We have never sought war,” he said. “We will stand firm to the end, we are ready to sacrifice our lives, and will not give them one inch of our land.”Since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28, it has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, 2,020 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states, and caused lasting damage to infrastructure in half a dozen Middle Eastern countries. Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz has largely cut off the Persian Gulf and its oil and gas exports from the global economy, sending energy prices soaring.</block>

Police remove fuel protesters from Dublin center as disruption over soaring costs continues

Police began breaking up the protests Saturday, using pepper spray to help clear people from the Whitegate refinery in County Cork and vowing to remove others who were endangering critical infrastructure and public safety because gas shortages could prevent response by emergency services.“They are not a legitimate form of protest,” Irish police Commissioner Justin Kelly said on Saturday. “We gave the blockaders fair warning that we were moving to enforcement and they choose to ignore it and cont

An exclusive 23-story Miami hotel vanishes in a 15-second implosion

MIAMI (AP) — A hotel at one of Miami’s most exclusive locations was demolished Sunday to make way for something bigger.Demolition experts completed the controlled implosion of the former Mandarin Oriental, Miami on Brickell Key, a human-made island at the mouth of the Miami River, across from downtown. It marked the largest implosion for Miami in more than a decade, officials said.The 23-story building, which opened 25 years ago, collapsed in less than 20 seconds following blasts that occu

Cruise companies to Alaska are avoiding a popular excursion to Tracy Arm after a massive landslide

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — For years, a popular part of many cruises in southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers.But this season, major cruise lines are skipping it. A massive landslide last summer sent parts of a glacier crashing into the water, generated a tsunami and pushed a wave high up the opposite mountain wall. Several companies opting out cited safety concerns with the still-hazardous slopes.“Tr

What to know about Trump’s tax breaks for tips and overtime when filing state tax returns

<block>As the tax-filing deadline nears, millions of Americans are expected to claim new federal income tax breaks for tips and overtime wages available for the first time under a wide-ranging tax law enacted by President Donald Trump. But many people won’t get those same deductions when they fill out their state income tax forms. That is because it is up to each state to decide whether to match federal tax changes, and many have decided not to do so.In states that don’t conform to the federal tax changes, workers who receive a federal tax deduction for tips or overtime still will owe state taxes on those earnings. The tax-filing deadline is Wednesday for the federal government and most states. Here is what to know about state income tax rates and deductions: <hl2>41 states tax wages and salaries</hl2>In most states, individuals must fill out two separate tax forms. First, the federal income tax form. Then a state income tax form. The order matters, because most states use figures from the federal tax form as the starting point for their state tax calculations. No income tax is levied in eight states — Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. Washington state taxes income from capital gains but not wages and salaries. Missouri taxes income from wages and salaries but not capital gains.<hl2>Most states still tax tips and overtime wages</hl2>Only about a half-dozen states are mirroring Trump’s law by offering tax breaks on tips and overtime wages or for loan interest on new vehicles assembled in the U.S. All three of those tax deductions are available to state income taxpayers in Idaho, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota and Oregon. Colorado offers the tips and auto loan deductions but not the overtime tax break. Alabama offers only the auto loan deduction.Laws in several states automatically apply federal tax changes to state income taxes unless the governor and lawmakers opt out — like Colorado officials did on the overtime tax deduction. But in most states, the tax breaks are available only if officials updated their state laws, like they did in Idaho. <hl2>Arizona is an oddity on tax deductions</hl2>State income tax forms in Arizona list tax deductions for tips, overtime, auto loans and older residents based on a November executive order from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. She assumed the Republican-led Legislature would later pass a bill putting the tax breaks into state law. But Arizona law remains unchanged. Hobbs vetoed two tax-break bills because she objected to provisions that also would have adopted Trump’s corporate tax breaks. And lawmakers have not passed a third attempt. “It’s an extraordinarily unusual situation,” said Adam Chodorow, a law professor at Arizona State University who specializes in tax law. “We will likely have lots of people deducting tips” and overtime wages “who aren’t legally entitled to do so,” he said. “But they are being instructed by the state government to take those deductions.”It is possible that Arizona still could enact a law officially allowing the deductions; it could even be done retroactively, after the tax-filing deadline.<hl2>Tax breaks got scuttled in two states</hl2>Tipped workers and overtime earners almost got tax breaks this year in some additional states. South Carolina extended its deadline to file for tax refunds to Oct. 15 to allow time for the Republican-led Legislature to opt in to the federal tax deductions. Legislation to do so passed the House but got defeated in the state Senate. Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature passed bills to allow the tips and overtime deductions. But Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed them on April 3. <hl2>Residents in some states must wait for tax breaks</hl2> <hl2/>Officials in Georgia, Indiana and Michigan have enacted laws allowing tax deductions for tips and overtime wages starting with the 2026 tax year. That means they aren’t available for people currently filing their 2025 tax returns. Oregon, meanwhile, could move the other direction. Legislation pending before Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek would stop offering the auto loan deduction and some corporate tax breaks for the 2026 tax year. Other states could still opt in or out of the tax deductions for their 2026 taxes. </block>

Iran war diverts US military and attention from Asia ahead of Trump’s summit with China’s leader

involvement in the Middle East say the war is preventing Trump from adequately preparing for his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, when economic interests are on the line, and they warn that a failure to focus on Asia and maintain strong deterrence could lead to greater instability, if China should believe the time is ripe to seize the self-governed island of Taiwan.“This is precisely the wrong time for the United States to turn away and be sucked into another intractable Middle

Lessons learned in ’70s have made US, world economies less vulnerable to oil shocks

<block>WASHINGTON (AP) — The world economy is experiencing a disorienting flashback to the 1970s.Oil prices are once again surging in the wake of war in the Middle East, driving up the cost of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel and threatening a return to stagflation – the toxic mix of higher prices and slower growth that made economic life so miserable a half century ago.But the U.S. and world economies are less vulnerable now than they were when Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern petroleum producers withheld oil supplies to punish countries that supported Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.In response to that shock – and another triggered six years later by the Iranian revolution — countries embarked on a new course to increase their energy efficiency, reduce their dependence on Middle Eastern oil, stockpile fuel against future threats, and find and develop alternative sources of energy.“We have decades of experience now dealing with these kinds of oil shocks,’’ said Amy Myers Jaffe, research professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Of course, the notion that the current Iran energy shock could have been worse is little comfort to frustrated American motorists paying $4 or more for a gallon of gasoline, to European farmers contending with skyrocketing fertilizer prices and to street vendors in India who can’t get enough gas to cook curries and samosas for their customers. And the sheer scale is unprecedented. In response to attacks by the United States and Israel that began Feb. 28, Iran effectively shut off the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 million barrels of oil — or one-fifth of global production — flowed daily. Lutz Kilian, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Center for Energy and the Economy, figures that 5 million daily barrels can either be rerouted from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea or continue to transit through the Strait of Hormuz. But that still means that roughly 15 million barrels — or 15% — of daily global oil production is missing, compared with just 6% in the 1973 embargo and after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. <hl2>Cushioning the blow</hl2>Changes the U.S. and other countries made over the past five decades have limited the economic fallout from the war. In 1973, oil accounted for almost half — 46% — of world energy supplies. By 2023, oil’s share had fallen to 30%, according to the International Energy Agency. The world still uses more oil than ever: Consumption topped 100 million barrels a day last year, up from fewer than 60 million barrels a day in 1973. But a much bigger share of global energy is coming from other sources — such as natural gas, nuclear, solar — compared to five decades ago.The United States, in particular, has weaned itself away from dependence on foreign oil.When the ’73 oil shock hit, America’s domestic energy production was in decline and its reliance on oil imports was growing alarmingly. But the rise of fracking — pumping high-pressure water deep underground to extract previously hard-to-get oil or gas from rock – rejuvenated U.S. energy production in the 21st century. By 2019, America had become a net petroleum exporter.“The U.S. economy is much better positioned than it was in the 1970s,” when it was “particularly vulnerable to an oil price shock,” said Sam Ori, executive director of the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute. In the early ‘70s, for example, the United States got about 20% of its electricity from oil, Ori said. But a law enacted in 1978 prohibited the use of petroleum in power plants. Now the United States gets no electricity from oil — aside from a few generators in, say, the far reaches of Alaska.<hl2>Dimming the lights </hl2>The 1973 oil embargo was a wakeup call, creating shortages that led to long lines at U.S. gasoline stations.On Nov. 25, 1973, President Richard Nixon went on television to ask the American people to make sacrifices. To conserve fuel, he urged gasoline stations to shut their pumps from Saturday night through Sunday, hoping to discourage long-distance weekend driving.He asked Congress to lower the maximum speed limit to 50 miles an hour (lawmakers settled for 55 miles an hour) and to ban ornamental and most commercial lighting (they balked at that). Nixon himself promised to dim the White House Christmas lights.But while those memories may have left a lasting imprint on some, Jaffe of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs says that today, “a repeat of long gasoline lines, fuel rationing, and outright fuel shortages in the U.S seems highly unlikely.” Other countries took aggressive action following the 1973 oil embargo as well.The United Kingdom, contending with a coal strike as well as the energy crisis, cut the work week to three days to slash electricity consumption. France ordered offices to turn off the lights at night.Japan, almost entirely dependent on imported oil, passed a series of “sho-ene’’ laws — combining the Japanese words for “save’’ or “reduce’’ with “energy’’ — mandating energy efficiency in shipping, buildings, machinery, automobiles and homes.Japan also encouraged the use of liquefied natural and gas and the rapid growth of nuclear power, an effort set back after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant. Overall, Japan ranks No. 21 in the world in per-capita energy consumption, according to International Energy Agency data, as a result of its efficiency drive and widespread use of buses and trains. The United States is No. 9.<hl2>More fuel efficient cars, new oil fields </hl2>The U.S. government began imposing fuel economy standards in 1975. Fuel economy has risen from 13.1 miles per gallon for model year 1975 vehicles to 27.1 mpg in model year 2023, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The World Bank, in fact, attributes most of the drop in the global economy’s dependence on oil to stricter fuel efficiency requirements for vehicles around the world.The ’70s shocks also set off a search for oil outside the Middle East — Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, the North Sea fields off the coasts of the United Kingdom and Norway and Canada’s oil sands deposits.As fracking boomed, U.S. oil production shot up from 5 million barrels a day in 2008 to 13.6 million barrels a day last year. Over the same period, U.S. natural gas production has more than doubled.Countries also began stockpiling oil and set up the Paris-based International Energy Agency in 1975 to coordinate responses to energy shocks. Last month, the agency’s 32 member countries agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil in an effort to calm the oil market; included were 172 million barrels from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, set up in 1975.Central banks such as the Federal Reserve also learned lessons. In the ‘70s, they reduced interest rates to protect the economy from the oil shocks. In so doing, they overlooked the threat posed by higher energy costs — and inflation, already elevated, got worse. In a Feb. 17 commentary – 11 days before the United States and Israel attacked Iran – the Dallas Fed’s Kilian wrote that the Fed erred in cutting rates to boost the economy when the 1970s oil shocks hit: “What we can learn from the 1970s is that a well-intentioned policy of stimulating the economy by lowering interest rates has the potential of inadvertently reigniting inflation.’’ <hl2>Trump undoes efforts to reduce oil dependence</hl2> <hl2/>While much has changed, the University of Chicago’s Ori cautions: “Oil is still king, the No. 1 fuel in the U.S. economy.’’ Cars, planes, trucks and ships get about 90% of their delivered energy from petroleum. “The lifeblood of the economy – the transportation sector —is still overwhelmingly reliant on petroleum fuel, the price of which is set in a global market,’’ Ori said, “and a disruption anywhere affects the price everywhere.’’He also notes that President Donald Trump is undoing many of the policies meant to reduce America’s dependence on petroleum and to encourage the use of electric vehicles.Trump’s sweeping tax bill last year ended consumer credits of up to $7,500 for EV purchases. He has announced a proposal to weaken U.S. fuel economy standards and repealed fines on automakers that don’t meet those standards.“You take all that together, and the fact is, the U.S. is going in the opposite direction of making big changes to further insulate the economy from oil shocks and oil price volatility,’’ Ori said._____Kageyama reported from Tokyo.</block>

Union Berlin makes history with Marie-Louise Eta as first woman to lead a Bundesliga men’s team

BERLIN (AP) — Union Berlin has appointed Marie-Louise Eta as the first female head coach in the men’s Bundesliga as it bids to ensure its league survival.She becomes the first woman to take charge of a men’s team across the top divisions of Europe’s “big five” soccer leagues. The 34-year-old Eta takes over from Steffen Baumgart, who was fired late Saturday with his assistants Danilo de Souza and Kevin McKenna after the team’s 3-1 loss at last-place Heidenheim, Union announced just before m

Judge told to reconsider national security implications of halting Trump’s White House ballroom

District Judge Richard Leon to clarify whether — and how — his injunction interferes with the administration’s plans for safety and security.Government lawyers had argued that the project includes critical security features to guard against a range of possible threats, such as drones, ballistic missiles and biohazards and that holding up construction “would imperil the President and others who live and work in the White House,.”Leon, in issuing the temporary pause, concluded that the preservatio

Washington State Patrol issues missing indigenous person alert

The Washington State Patrol is asking the public to keep an eye out for a missing 17-year-old girl who was last seen near the city of Chehalis.Authorities issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Kamri Fryberg-King.According to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, Kamri was last seen around 10:00 p.m., on a road known as Pascoe Ave. in the Napavine area of Lewis County, about a mile north of U.S. 12.Anyone who has seen Kamri is asked to immediately call 911.Troopers released a recent pho

Pope Leo XIV blasts ‘delusion of omnipotence’ fueling the US-Israeli war in Iran

And this week, he said Trump’s threat to annihilate Iranian civilization was “truly unacceptable” and called for dialogue to prevail.On Saturday, Leo called for all people of good will to pray for peace and demand an end to war from their political leaders. The evening vigil in Rome, which featured Scripture readings and meditative recitation of the Rosary prayers, was taking place as simultaneous local prayer services were being held in the U.S. and beyond.Praying for peace, Leo said, was a way

Masters winner is set to make $4.5 million out of a majors-record $22.5 million prize purse

(AP) — If Rory McIlroy is able to hang on and win his second consecutive Masters on Sunday, he’ll walk away with $4.5 million.That’s up from the $4.2 million he won last year.The Masters on Saturday announced its prize purse for this year’s championship at $22.5 million overall — the highest payout of golf’s four majors. The Masters’ prize payout was $21 million last year.The other three major tournaments have not announced prize funds for this year. In 2025, the PGA Championship’s was $19

US-Iran talks begin in Pakistan as war’s fragile ceasefire holds

The United States and Iran began negotiations Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced, as the war that has killed thousands of people and shaken global markets entered its seventh week.Iran’s state-run news agency said three-party talks had begun after Iranian preconditions, including a reduction in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, were met, and after U.S. and Iranian officials met separately with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. There were no imm

‘I’d bury it in the backyard’: Jake details fool-proof plan as toilet paper shortage concerns rise

After a 29-year-old man allegedly burned down a 1.2 million square foot warehouse filled with toilet paper, the western United States now potentially faces a toilet paper shortage.Jake Skorheim and Spike O’Neill, co-hosts of “The Jake and Spike Show” on KIRO Newsradio, likened this toilet paper shortage to what was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic and believe some households may begin hoarding it.“You guys remember during COVID, everybody got really worried. I don’