The entrance to a Safeway store in Northeast Seattle on Wednesday. The grocery chain’s parent company, Albertsons, and dozens of other employers in Washington are being sued under the state’s new pay transparency law. (Kevin Clark / The Seattle Times)
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Business

Months after WA employers required to share pay info, a flood of lawsuits

One Seattle-based firm has filed 31 lawsuits accusing companies of failing to disclose salary information on job postings, violating a new state regulation.

Hamas-Israel war

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Politics

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued subpoenas and demands for researchers’ communications with the government and social media platforms as part of a larger congressional probe into the Biden administration’s alleged collusion with Big Tech. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.

The sexual abuse scandal that haunts Trump’s pick for House speaker

Opinion

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Bureaucratic bungling hurts Seattle students | Horsey cartoon

Local News

The Monroe Correctional Complex, a Department of Corrections men’s prison in Monroe Washington, photographed on April 9, 2020.

WA agreement would require access to trans health care in prison | Times Watchdog

Featured Columnist

Warning for Seattle: The schools’ pandemic hangover is not easing

Mental Health

The phone call to a friend that can save a life | Mental Health Perspectives
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How insurers prevent lifesaving treatment for eating disorders

Business & Tech

Alaska Airlines and Stumptown Coffee Roasters announced a new partnership. Guests on all Alaska flights will enjoy our custom roast starting this fall and on every flight by Dec. 1, 2023. Plus, guests can sip signature Stumptown blends in our Portland and JFK Lounges.

Starbucks coffee to stop being served on Alaska Airlines flights

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Nation & World

Members of SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors and remains on strike, pickets in front of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, on Sept. 26, 2023. After 148 days on strike, television and movie writers will begin returning to work on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) XNYT0177 XNYT0177

Hollywood studios break off strike talks with actors, who slam ‘bullying tactics’

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Health

In an image provided by the U.S. Army, an influenza ward of a U.S. Army hospital in Aix-Les-Bains, France, circa 1918. While a narrative emerged that the 1918 pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail young adults were most vulnerable. (U.S. Army via The New York Times) – NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. – XNYT0601 XNYT0601

Skeletons of 1918 flu victims reveal clues about who was likely to die

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