Seattle city councilmember Kshama Sawant had a personal message for billionaire Jeff Bezos after the passage of the so-called Amazon tax, warning him that “we are coming for you.” The avowed socialist framed Monday’s 7-2 council vote for the hefty payroll tax on larger businesses as a step toward the goal of overthrowing the “bankrupt…
July 1, 2020 | 9:22pm | Updated July 1, 2020 | 9:22pm A worker walks by a former barrier as city crews dismantle the CHOP area outside the Seattle Police Department's vacated East Precinct in Seattle. Getty Images City crews dismantling the CHOP area. Getty Images A city worker moves concrete barricades away from "BLM"…
The de-facto leader of Seattle's autonomous protest zone said Wednesday “a lot” of protesters have already left the area following a call days earlier from the mayor for protesters to clear out. The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, in a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday said that “very few” people remain in the protest…
(CNN)The de facto leader of the autonomous protest zone in Seattle said Wednesday "a lot of people have already" left the area, days after the mayor said she was going to persuade people to leave. A…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…