The chef Sam Fore in her home kitchen in Lexington, Ky. May 25, 2023. Fore was pleased when the James Beard Foundation named her a finalist for Best Chef: Southeast, but shocked when it had a private investigator interrogate her. (Jessica Ebelhar/The New York Times)
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FILE — President Donald Trump, seated next to Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, makes remarks during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Oct. 7, 2019. Prosecutors issued a subpoena for a description of military options for Iran mentioned by the former president during an interview. But Trump’s legal team said they could find no such document. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT0139 XNYT0139

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Heather Spore, Environmental Policy Analyst, makes her way across the Hole in the Wall jetty Tuesday morning in La Conner, Washington on May 30, 2023. Spore makes the trek multiple times a week to monitor out-migrating juvenile salmon.

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Business & Tech

Gordon Haggerty is a homeowner who is renting his home out, Monday, May 22, 2023 in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood. The house is a restored Victorian, over a hundred years old, and now a 5-unit apartment that has a wait list to get in. The current longest-rented unit has been since 2014.

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Nation & World

MANDATORY CREDIT- Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Friday, June 2, 2023. Two passenger trains derailed in India, killing at least 13 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged coaches, officials said. About 400 people were injured and taken to hospitals, and the cause of the accident was under investigation, officials said. (Press Trust of India via AP) DEL101 DEL101

India train crash death toll rises above 230 with 900 injured VIEW

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The chef Sam Fore in her home kitchen in Lexington, Ky. May 25, 2023. Fore was pleased when the James Beard Foundation named her a finalist for Best Chef: Southeast, but shocked when it had a private investigator interrogate her. (Jessica Ebelhar/The New York Times) XNYT0153 XNYT0153

James Beard Foundation, whose awards honor chefs, is now investigating them

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Arts & Life

Brandi Carlile, left, and Joni Mitchell arrive at the 31st annual MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala honoring Mitchell on Friday, April 1, 2022, at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Photography

Heron chicks are excited to get food from one of their parents, center, who will regurgitate it into the nest at Commodore Park in Seattle on Friday, May 19, 2023. Currently the colony has approximately 65 active nests this year. Curious to learn more? C’mon out for the Heron Chick Birthday Celebration this Saturday. Heron Habitat Helpers will be there with telescopes so you can view the nests and naturalists to help answer your questions. The event runs June 3rd from 10am to 1pm at Commodore Park, on the Magnolia side of the Ballard Locks. For more information on the Heron Habitat Helpers or to volunteer to help with habitat restoration or heron observation please visit https://www.heronhelpers.org/
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