Visitors walk into the newly formed lake at Badwater Basin, the lowest place in North America, almost 300 feet below sea level, in Death Valley National Park, Calif., on Oct. 2, 2023. Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water. (Mette Lampcov / The New York Times)
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Nation & World

In Death Valley, a rare lake comes alive

While flash floods created a serene lake in one of the hottest places on Earth, they also highlighted how climate change is shaping even the most remote places. VIEW

Thanksgiving 2023

Seattle-area restaurants open for Thanksgiving 2023
How to beat Sea-Tac Airport headaches amid record crowds, construction WATCH
Thanksgiving week weather: Chilly and mostly dry skies
We taste-tested 3 turkey recipes to name a Thanksgiving dinner winner

Politics

FILE – Election workers begin to dismantle a polling place after closing on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Pella, Iowa. Voting rights leaders have viewed the current conservative makeup of the Supreme Court as hostile to the Voting Rights Act. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times) XNYT0968 XNYT0968

Federal court moves to drastically weaken Voting Rights Act

Opinion

Builder impact fees for transportation upgrades in Seattle make sense | Editorial
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LZ Granderson
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David Horsey
Trump keeps telling us exactly who he is | Horsey cartoon

Israel-Hamas war

LiveLive updates | WHO official says Gaza hospital situation ‘catastrophic’ VIEW
Critical trauma care not possible at any of Gaza’s hospitals, WHO says
Families of hostages in Gaza are desperate for proof of life
A Gazan family, a premature newborn, a painful choice to stay

Local News

Pedestrians walk near the corner of Pike Place, Western Avenue and Virginia Street in Seattle Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The original Starbucks was located at 2000 Western Avenue. 224955

You might be getting Starbucks’ order wrong; here's the REAL 1st location VIEW

Featured Columnist

Black trans people lead with love in unique media campaign

Mental Health

Jordan Alam
I’m a therapist, but I’m not the expert on ‘fixing’ you | The therapist is in
How Seattle psychiatric providers are responding as system bursts at the seams
Seattle launches pilot program to tackle mental health calls
7 takeaways from expert panel on the fentanyl crisis in King County

Business & Tech

File – Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. Microsoft snapped up Altman for a new venture after his sudden departure from OpenAI shocked the artificial intelligence world. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay, File) NYPM105 NYPM105

How Microsoft’s hiring of OpenAI’s Altman could reshape AI development

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How billionaires are changing Seattle and America for better and worse

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Nation & World

Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom during a hearing Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho. Defense attorneys for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge Tuesday to order prosecutors to turn over more records, laying the groundwork for challenges to the case. Kohberger, 28, was indicted in May on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in connection with the Nov. 13, 2022, slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus. (August Frank/Lewiston Tribune via AP, Pool) IDLEW202

Judge bans media cameras in Bryan Kohberger case, offers new way to watch Moscow trial

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Health

Mess specialists Jeromy Frame (cq), left, 21, and Fernando Ramos, 32, check the state of thaw of one of the smoked turkeys the cooks onboard the USS Lincoln are helping to prepare for the crew of the aircraft carrier based in Everett. Both spent time training at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle this summer as part of the Navy’s attempt to improve the meals onboard ships.

Thawing your turkey: How to stay out of the food poisoning ‘danger zone’

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