This story was originally posted on MyNorthwest.com A Suquamish man received a large payday after purchasing a lottery ticket from a local grocery store. Marv C. won $50,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket at a Fred Meyer in Bremerton, one of Marv’s “go-to spots” for buying lottery tickets, according to Washington’s Lottery (WL). Winning lottery…
Senior White House adviser Kari Lake issued mass layoff notices Friday to 639 employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal outlet which owns the Voice of America and through which Congress directs money for other government-funded international networks, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. The vast majority of…
Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. All times on the map are Iran time. The New York Times A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Iran on Friday, according to the United States…
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Bitcoin may be set to replicate a tumultuous time in its history, according to veteran commodities trader Peter Brandt. “November 2021 all over again?” Brandt said last weekend on X, sharing Bitcoin’s weekly-candle chart. Much like today, in…
On Tuesday, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by several masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a courthouse in Manhattan as he attempted to steer an individual past immigration authorities. That same day, masked agents outside a Walmart in Pico Rivera detained two individuals — one a target of immigration enforcement, the…
A plane passenger went viral this week after a video showed her pulling a woman’s hair and spitting on fellow travelers. The passenger, a 32-year-old New York resident, boarded a Southwest flight from LaGuardia Airport to Kansas City in the early morning hours of June 17. Authorities were alerted of her presence at about 1:10…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man has been charged with an attempted kidnapping of the mayor of Memphis after he went to the mayor’s house in a gated community and was later arrested with a Taser, gloves, rope and duct tape in his vehicle, according to police. Memphis police on Wednesday announced that Trenton Abston,…
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russians and Ukrainians were one people, “and in that sense the whole of Ukraine is ours,” and said he did not rule out Russia taking control of the Ukrainian city of Sumy. But Putin, speaking at an international economic forum in St Petersburg, said Russia…
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says more than 70 people, including multiple children, were killed Thursday by Israeli strikes, with the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City among the targets. CNN’s Paula Hancocks reports on the trauma faced by Palestinians in Gaza, where a 12-year-old boy offered a gripping account of the suffering. Source…
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter While many educators spent the past two years fretting that artificial intelligence is killing student writing, upending person-to-person tutoring and generally wreaking havoc on scholastic inquiry, the well-known thinker and ed tech expert Michael Feldstein has been quietly exploring something…