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As war draws men to fight, Ukraine’s women take tough new jobs in machinery and mines
Kateryna Koliadiuk was curious. The 19-year-old Ukrainian agronomy student spotted an ad seeking women to enroll in a tractor driving course and decided to try. B ...
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Washington sues over RFK Jr.’s canceled health funding
Washington was among 23 states that sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the cancellation of $12 billion in federal funding to address infectious diseases, substance abuse and mental illness, in ...
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CenturyLink could face one of UTC’s largest fines over complaints, quality of service
Staff from the Utilities and Transportation Commission is recommending that CenturyLink Communications LLC be fined $15,567,770 for consumer complaints and poor quality of service.
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Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroney welcome a second child
Lawrence, 34, and Maroney, 40, married in October 2019 in Newport, Rhode Island, and share toddler son Cy. The actor has kept her family life out of the public eye for the most part, but news she was ...
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‘The fish did not cooperate’: Cowlitz River smelt dipping season a bust, with no fish caught
LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one caught ...
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With a TikTok ban looming, Trump signals a deal will come before April 5 deadline
As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the ...
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Washington native Hailey Van Lith grateful for long, well-traveled college career after it ends in Elite Eight
Hailey Van Lith became the first college basketball player, woman or man, to reach the Elite Eight five times and to get there with three schools.
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Storms could unleash deadly floods, strong tornadoes in large part of U.S. in coming days
Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South.
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U.N. agency closes the rest of its Gaza bakeries as food supplies dwindle under Israeli blockade
The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as food supplies dwindle after Israel sealed the territory off from all impor ...
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Hancock digs hole too deep for Mariners as they fall to Tigers 9-6
SEATTLE — The mistake pitches he left in the middle of the zone were hammered. The pitches on the edges of the strike zone that generated weak contact still ended up being hits. And the pitches ...
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There’s a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here’s what you should know
More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back.
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Orangutan bites zookeeper through barrier during training, Washington zoo says
An orangutan bit a zookeeper’s hand through a mesh barrier, causing a serious injury, a Washington zoo said. The incident happened Saturday at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the zoo wrote in a ...