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Pacific Northwest Restaurants Struggle as Temperatures Spike
On Wednesday, the temperature in the tight kitchen at Blotto, a pizza restaurant in Seattle, reached 108 degrees. Like many restaurants in the city, Blotto does not have air-conditioning. Facing due west, it gets hours of the summer-afternoon sunlight. The pizzeria’s owners, Jordan Koplowitz and Caleb Hoffmann, work in the kitchen, easily the hottest area […]
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Mickelson and LIV Golf Attract Fans and Anger to Oregon
He called on Mickelson to “be a man, step up, accept the truth of who you’re getting in bed with.” The Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sept. 11 Commission, in its 2004 report, found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials […]
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‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Writer Convicted of Murdering Husband
A romance novelist who wrote about “How to Murder Your Husband” was convicted in her husband’s killing on Wednesday following a contentious trial in which prosecutors leaned on a “puzzle” of circumstantial evidence to portray the author as a duplicitous spouse who spent months quietly plotting the perfect crime. Nancy Brophy, 71, stood quietly, a […]
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Celtics Coach Ime Udoka’s Journey from FedEx to the Top Job
BOSTON — Ime Udoka was always willing to offer instruction. But his players sensed that there were limits to how much he felt he could teach them. Sometimes, he needed to show them. So Udoka would hop on the phone and summon old friends from the neighborhood. These were former high school teammates, hoopers he […]
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Biden Tries to Sell an Embattled Domestic Agenda During His West Coast Trip
SEATTLE — On a trip to the Pacific Northwest this week, President Biden observed the construction of an earthquake-resistant airport runway that had been paid for with funds from a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law. He unveiled a plan to restore national forests devastated by wildfires. He promoted a climate agenda that has largely gone […]
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Celebrating Black History Month? These 5 Cities Are Going All Out
When the historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson proposed the first Negro History Week in 1926, he hardly imagined what would eventually become a monthlong celebration of Black history and culture across the nation. Today, every single state commemorates Black History Month in some fashion, acknowledging the trailblazers of the past, celebrating those making waves […]
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Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room
PORTLAND, Ore. — It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl. Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would […]
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Self-Proclaimed Proud Boys Member Gets 10 Years for Violence at Portland Protests
A self-professed member of the Proud Boys from Texas who traveled to Portland, Ore., to confront protesters there last year was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for shooting a man in the eye with a paintball gun, spraying people in the face with bear mace and aiming a loaded handgun at a […]
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Schools Are Closing Classrooms on Fridays. Parents Are Furious.
But, she said, teaching during the pandemic has been awful. “You have to think about not just trying to teach, but to stay safe as well,” she said, adding, “everything just can’t fall on the plate of a teacher.” Research shows that disruptions during the pandemic led to students falling behind in math and reading, […]
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