FILE – In this July 3, 2014, file photo, the Microsoft Corp. logo is displayed outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. Microsoft will begin bringing workers back to its suburban Seattle global headquarters on March 29, 2021, as the tech giant starts to reopen more facilities it largely shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FX102 (Ted S. Warren / AP)
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Business

Microsoft to cut 10,000 jobs, including at least 878 in Seattle area

Microsoft didn't specify which sites would see job cuts, but the layoffs will involve employees based in Redmond, Bellevue and Issaquah, according to the state Employment Security Department. Updated

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Politics

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his budget proposal in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. California faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year, Newsom announced Tuesday, just days into his second term. It’s a sharp turnaround from last year’s $98 billion surplus. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas) CAJL208 CAJL208

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Local News

Adasha Turner, founder of Modest Family Solutions, smiles as her team prepares boxes of falafel, soup and salad that will be given to people facing food insecurity on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023 at Bothell United Methodist Church.

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Education Lab

Big promises on special education spending, oversight from WA lawmakers
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Business & Tech

Microsoft job cuts hit HoloLens unit after setback on Army goggles

Microsoft will scale back work on a headset for the U.S. Army that Congress declined to fund this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Nation & World

A Qantas jet is parked on the tarmac next to firetrucks at Sydney International Airport after making an emergency landing in Sydney, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The Qantas flight traveling from New Zealand to Sydney landed safely after it issued a mayday call over the Pacific Ocean. (Jeremy Ng/AAP Image via AP) SYD801 SYD801

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Food & Drink

Friday, January 10, 2020 The traditional Vietnamese Lunar New year dish Thit Kho, a braised pork shoulder with coconut water, prepared at Monsoon. 212600

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Rats! They’re creepy, clever and everywhere in Seattle

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Arts & Life

The Olympic Mountains loom in the distance as seen from the Ebey’s Landing Road between Coupeville and Ebey’s Landing State Park. The Bluffs Trail, overlooking Puget Sound, create a 5.6 mile hike starting at the Bluffs Trailhead a few miles north of the Coupeville-Port Townsend Ferry Terminal. 200391

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Photography

The Seattle Steamrats meet at the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle on Saturday, January 14, 2023. The Seattle Steamrats is a steampunk group that embrace science fiction and the Victorian era where steam was the main source of energy and espouses a world where if that world had never progressed to the modern world. “We enjoy dressing for what we think the aesthetic of the Victorian era would be today if steam was still the main source of energy.” The future the way it was.” if we had gone that way.
Photography

Celebrating a past that never was at Seattle’s Georgetown Steam Plant VIEW

Seattle Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn gets elbowed off the puck by Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Brandon Hagel during the second period. 222756
Kraken

Photos: Kraken back home, take on Lightning VIEW

Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker couldn’t break through for any gains on the first two possessions as the Seattle Seahawks play the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Wild Card Game Saturday, January 14, 2023 at Levi Stadium, in Santa Clara, CA. 222781
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Washington’s Keion Brooks Jr. puts up the fadeaway jumper on Stanford’s Harrison Ingram in the second half Thursday. 222764
Sports

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