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The real reason congressional candidate Joe Kent, right, and others are demanding recounts isn’t because they think they can win. It’s to keep their cash-raising MAGA cred alive, writes columnist Danny Westneat. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times) — (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)

Danny Westneat

Election denial was roasted by WA voters, but it still brings in the bucks | Danny Westneat

The real reason congressional candidate Joe Kent and others want recounts isn't because they think they can win. It's to keep that MAGA money coming in.

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Boeing’s Everett factory, known as the largest manufacturing building in the world, produces the 747, 767, 777, and the 787 airplanes. The factory is just north of the Paine Field Airport. This view of the factory looks north along Airport Road.

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FILE – Three girls embrace before they are removed from the home of Samuel Bateman, following his arrest in Colorado City, Ariz., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Federal documents released Friday, Dec. 2 show that Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border, had taken at least 20 wives, most of whom were minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File) UTSAC202 UTSAC202

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Polygamous ‘prophet’ leader had child brides, documents say VIEW

A Washington State Department of Agriculture worker displays an Asian giant hornet taken from a nest Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. Scientists in Washington state discovered the first nest earlier in the week of so-called murder hornets in the United States and worked to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees, officials said. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET102 WAET102

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FILE â€” A United States Postal Service worker delivers a package in the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood of the Bronx on Dec. 18, 2021. Deliveries of at-home coronavirus test kits are starting to arrive in Americansâ€™ mail boxes after orders began to be placed on a government website on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)

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WA tribe says state failed to uphold sales-tax exemption

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Politics

Tacoma Police Department Det. Chad Lawless diagrams the scene where he and his partner, officer Corey Ventura, showed up to where Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer had a confrontation with a newspaper carrier Sedrick Altheimer on Jan. 27, 2021, during his testimony in Pierce County Superior Court on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in Tacoma, Wash.

Key witness against Troyer faces aggressive cross-examination VIEW

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Project Homeless

RVs and cars are parked along the Green River on July 8, 2022.

Homelessness along Green River grows, creating a tricky question VIEW

About Project Homeless

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

The Washington State Department of Transportation expects a 10-12 closure of Eastbound I-90 after a 30-vehicle collision Wednesday morning.

Eastbound I-90 reopens near Ellensburg after 30-vehicle collision

Photography

Hundreds of Boeing employees line the fence to witness the final Boeing 747 aircraft as it rollouts out of its hangar at the Everett factory, Tuesday night, Dec. 6, 2022. The 747-8 freighter, which is the model of this aircraft, can hold approximately 19 million ping-pong balls or golf balls. 222295

Business

Final Boeing 747 rollout for ‘Queen of the Skies’ VIEW

Tyler Slater tosses a crab pot into the water off the Edmonds Fishing Pier on a chilly evening Edmonds on December 3, 2022. Slater is hoping to catch red rock crab or dungeness crab using chicken, squid and herring for bait. The recreational crab fishing season is open in this area until December 31st.

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Geno Smith warms up for Sunday’s game against the Rams. 222344

Seahawks

Photos Seahawks beat the Rams VIEW

Members of the Seattle SeaCordsmen finish off a carol with smiles during the 37th Annual Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Celebration at Pike Place Market on Friday night. The competition benefits the Pike Market Senior Center & Food Bank. 222197

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Figgy Pudding carolers bring the holiday spirit to Pike Place Market VIEW

Education

Older prisons such as the Washington State Reformatory are home to some of the most rigorous college-in-prison programs because of their proximity to urban areas. The closure of the reformatory in October 2021 spelled the end for its college program, University Beyond Bars. (Charlotte West / Charlotte West / Open Campus)

When a WA prison closed, dozens of college dreams died with it VIEW

Education Lab

How a billion-dollar corporation exploits Washington’s special education system

Seattle school enrollment levels off, but district still faces budget woes

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Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

A woman wearing a face mask and face shield get ready for her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. China has announced new measures rolling back COVID-19 restrictions, including limiting lockdowns and testing requirements. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) XAW107 XAW107

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Times Watchdog

A still from a video shows former Tukwila police officer Nick Hogan used an unsanctioned takedown against Alvin Walker in 2011, breaking Walker’s elbow. Hogan was fired after multiple investigations found he violated department policy, and later pleaded guilty to violating a suspect’s civil rights, but he retained his state certification.

Fired, but still a cop: How Washington state’s decertification process leaves troubled officers with their guns

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A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.

Times Watchdog

Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).

Crime

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Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side.

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Crime

Unsolved slaying of Seattle prosecutor 16 years ago today has ‘hallmarks of a hit’

Special Report

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Data

A steady stream of voters stopped at the ballot deposit box just east of Gasworks Park Tuesday morning, November 8, 2022. 222130

These WA counties saw the highest — and lowest — voter turnout in the election

Law & Justice

A portrait of Andrea Churna and her child Michael: Churna who was a Redmond mother of a 7-year-old at the time was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after calling dispatchers for help in Sept. 2020. 219048

Redmond City Council approves $7.5M settlement to family of woman killed by police in 2020

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show

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Eastside

Officer Jordan Jackson

Bellevue road closures planned Tuesday for police officer memorial

Environment

The central plate of this snowflake grew nearly perfectly with temperatures 15 to 25 degrees near the ground. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Jason Persoff.

No snowflakes are the same. These stunning close-up photos are proof VIEW

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

A photo provided by Svend Funder shows Kurt H. Kjaer and Eske Willerslev digging for soil samples at the Kap K¿benhavn Formation in Greenland. In Greenland’s permafrost, scientists have discovered two-million-year-old genetic material from scores of plant and animal species, including mastodons, geese, lemmings and ants. (Svend Funder via The New York Times) – NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED GREENLAND ANCIENT DNA BY CARL ZIMMER FOR DEC. 7, 2022. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. – XNYT50 XNYT50

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Earthquakes

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Northwest Wanderings

The astronaut replica suit Ted Huetter of the Museum of Flight gets into is a special-commission for around $10,000 but is not suitable for use in space. It’s lightweight but warm.

from the Museum of Flight, Make-A-Wish people, virtual reality headsets at the Infinite experience.

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Paul Lundy cleans the surface of each key on Muriel Erickson’s 1968 Hermes in for its annual tuneup.

Paul Lundy at his Bremerton Office Machine Co. typewriter repair.

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Eleventh-grader Naazneen Vemmerath Kulangara (CQ) asks NASA astronaut Megan McArthur a question from the Museum of Flight. McArthur is aboard the International Space Station during a video hookup Saturday.

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Northwest Wanderings

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Seattle students virtually Zoom into space for a chat with astronaut Megan McArthur

Professional drummer Chris Anderson is into the beat he’s providing at First Avenue and Pike Street across from the Pike Place Market, busking for five hours.

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