Olivia Edwards, left, 13, of Flourtown, Pa., gets a bandage from registered nurse Philene Moore Tuesday after getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at a Montgomery County, Pa. Office of Public Health vaccination clinic. Some health providers have already begun giving vaccines to younger people, ahead of recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Matt Slocum / AP)
Olivia Edwards, 13, of Flourtown, Pa., gets a bandage Tuesday after getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination. (Matt Slocum / AP)
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Quandre Diggs celebrates his 2nd quarter interception with the Seahawks defensive unit. The Los Angeles Rams played the Seattle Seahawks in a game that will determine the winner of the NFC West Sunday, December 27, 2020 at Lumen Field in Seattle, WA. 216007
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Saturday, April 28, 2018. Hikers board the Trailhead Direct bus who are headed to Issaquah’s Chirico’s trail. 206135
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Northern lights (aurora borealis) illuminate the sky over Potter Marsh, foreground, and in the distance, Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 shortly after midnight. (AP Photo/Dan Joling) RPDJ101
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FILE – In this Jan. 9, 2020, file photo, Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella, center, looks on during an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks in San Jose, Calif. Tortorella is out as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets after six seasons. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) NY901
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Damien Jurado at the Historian Recording Co. in Youngstown, OH. (Photo by David Pokrivnak)
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Seattle Storm forward Breanna Stewart brings the ball up the court during the second half of Game 2 of basketball’s WNBA Finals against the Las Vegas Aces, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in Bradenton, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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Fire fighters work to put out a blaze at Egg and Us in Gilman Village in Issaquah on Wednesday, May 11, 2021.
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Dosson McGee and Jamila Gardner are photographed in Pioneer Square Tuesday, April 13, 2021. McGee hopes to purchase a new cell phone and clothes when he receives his stimulus check. 216892
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Two hotels the county is housing people in are in Queen Anne and SLU; the Inn at Queen Anne , pictured here, and the Civic Hotel. 216255
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FILE — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a Women’s History Month event in Washington, March. 18, 2015. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died of complications from metastatic pancreas cancer on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She was 87. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT197
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FILE — Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 28, 2021. Facebook’s Oversight Board, an independent and international panel that was created and funded by the social network, plans to announce on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, whether former President Donald Trump will be able to return to the platform that has been a critical megaphone for him and his tens of millions of followers. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) XNYT31 XNYT31

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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., questions Zalmay Khalilzad, special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2021, during a hearing on the Biden administration’s Afghanistan policy and plans to withdraw troops after two decades of war. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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Business & Tech

FILE – In this Monday, March 1, 2021 file photo, The first Alaska Airlines passenger flight on a Boeing 737-9 Max airplane takes off on a flight to San Diego from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Many new Boeing 737 Max jetliners are still grounded by an electrical problem in a backup power-control unit. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday, April 22, 2021 that 106 planes worldwide are grounded, including 71 in the United States. Airlines are waiting for Boeing to come up with a plan for repairing the planes, and that plan would need FAA approval. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) NYMV201 NYMV201

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A crack in a steel beam, found the day before, has forced the closure of the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Arkansas and Tennessee, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz) TNAS202 TNAS202

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FILE – In this May 5, 2021, file photo, a group of friends, who said they are fully vaccinated for COVID-19, mingle on the beach in the Venice section of Los Angeles. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of just over 600 per day — the lowest level in 10 months — with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) NYAG901 NYAG901

Taming the virus: US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months VIEW

Food & Drink

Renton’s Mas Pika food truck blends the cuisines of Mexico and Guam, creating delectable rice bowls with huli huli chicken, empanadas, and tacos.

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Damien Jurado at the Historian Recording Co. in Youngstown, OH. (Photo by David Pokrivnak)

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Photography

Members of artist John Grade’s team secure part of his large sculpture “Boundary” in the North Satellite Terminal at SeaTac International Airport. Monday May 10, 2021 When completed, the piece of salvaged Alaskan Yellow Cedar measures 40’ H x 85’ W x 25’ D Grade has other massive pieces in the Seattle Art Museum lobby and at MOHAI. LO Linesonly 217084
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“I’m so relieved,” said Elaine Stevens as she gets her second vaccine shot from Dawda Cham, a nurse practitioner with 6M Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine, the sponsor of the clinic. “I’m just ready for this to all be over,” said Stevens about the pandemic. Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle hosts a coronavirus vaccine clinic for the community Thursday May 6, 2021. 217039
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Keira Sweeney looks up at an Allosaurus, the largest meat eater during the late Jurassic Period, featured in the Dinosaur Discovery exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The zoo’s new exhibit features dozens of “the world’s largest and most life-like dinosaurs.” Visitors are able to learn more about the historic creatures as the dinosaurs move, breathe and roar throughout the exhibit. The exhibit was created by Dino Don Inc., the only maker of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, which are featured in zoos and museums around the world, according to the Woodland Park Zoo.
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LINESONLY For the first time since closing in the pandemic, the pedestrian bridges at the Ballard Locks were open to foot traffic Wednesday, April 28, 2021. So too was the first floor of the Visitor’s Center. The pedestrian bridges connected two neighborhoods separated by the canal. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers said the fish ladder however will remain closed due to an impending maintenance project. 216958
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