Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales hugs Renaissance, left, a community organizer from the groups 350 Seattle and Whose Streets, Our Streets after the council voted against an ordinance to give the city attorney prosecution power on public drug use and drug possession cases in Seattle on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)
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Seattle City Council narrowly rejects drug prosecution bill

In a 5-4 vote, the City Council rejected a bill that would have given the city attorney the authority to prosecute drug possession and public drug use cases. VIEW

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FILE – Republican presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks during a campaign event, June 2, 2023, in Lexington, S.C. A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday, June 6, that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr., File) NYSS202 NYSS202

US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

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An employee works on the tail of a Boeing Co. Dreamliner 787 plane on the production line at the company’s final assembly facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. On the day President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at Boeing Co. for the cost of replacing Air Force One, mechanics and engineers at the planemaker’s South Carolina factory were focused on another challenge: making the first 787-10 Dreamliner. The manufacturer is counting on the newest and longest Dreamliner to help turn its marquee carbon-fiber jet into a cash machine. Photographer: Travis Dove/Bloomberg

Boeing finds another quality problem on 787, delaying deliveries again

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Local residents carry their belongs as they evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine has collapsed, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies. (AP Photo/Libkos) XEL145 XEL145

Citizens scramble to escape floodwaters after Ukraine dam breach WATCH

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Longtime PNB dancer Lesley Rausch prepares for final bows WATCH

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